AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Adult obesity and overweight statistics have increased by about 50 percent since the Dietary Goals were announced. [by the federal government, in 1977] That bears repeating: a 50 percent increase in obesity/overweight correlated with a 10 percent decrease in fat content in the diet.

Mental health is often missing from public health debates even though it's critical to wellbeing.

Public health and safety are my highest priorities.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.