I don’t think you just can put people on the starting block and then wait… for the next Ebola-like epidemic. I think that you need somehow a small-capacity response who’s going to run the first few kilometers of the marathon. Joanne Liu Read Quote
I always say now it’s the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere. Joanne Liu Read Quote
I worked in Syria on the front lines, and you hear the plane, you hear the shell is dropping, you realize it’s not on you – ‘Good’ – and then you see the patients coming in and take care of them. And then you have down time. With Ebola, it seems there’s no down time. It seems you’re always at the front line; you’re always exposed. Joanne Liu Read Quote
People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal… Being different when you’re a child is always a challenge. Joanne Liu Read Quote
The unspoken thing, the elephant in the room, is the war against terrorism, it’s tainting everything. Joanne Liu Read Quote
The effects of the attacks against health facilities emanate far beyond those immediately killed and injured. They demolish routine and lifesaving health care for all. They make life impossible. Full stop. Joanne Liu Read Quote
I am absolutely convinced there should be financial and political incentives for states to declare. You shouldn’t be the pariah of the world if you say you have Ebola, but in reality this is what happens. Joanne Liu Read Quote
Somehow we got used to death, and then we dehumanised it. We account for conflicts in figures. Ebola is 13,500 infected, 5,000 people have died… People are losing their sense of empathy, their sense of wanting to do something. Joanne Liu Read Quote