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I think the world should unite and focus on strong health systems to prepare the whole world to prevent epidemics - or if there is an outbreak, to manage it quickly - because viruses don't respect borders, and they don't need visas. Tedros Adhanom

I think any position in any international organization should be merit-based. Tedros Adhanom

Organization Think Any Should International Position

I believe UNAIDS' provocative leadership has been critical in addressing the AIDS epidemic and converting it from a death sentence to a chronic health condition. Tedros Adhanom

Death Health Leadership Believe Chronic AIDS Addressing Critical Has-Been Been Condition Provocative Converting Sentence Epidemic

Effective public-private partnerships will help drive the development of new products to meet the particular health needs of the poor and other vulnerable populations. Tedros Adhanom

Health Needs Will Drive Other Meet Development New Particular Partnerships Vulnerable Effective New Products Poor Products Help

I speak often about my personal experiences with malaria in the field as a young public health officer because it had such a profound impact on my life and my work. Tedros Adhanom

Strong leadership is essential in the face of health crises. Complex public health emergencies demand a collective response with high-level political and diplomatic engagement at both the national and global levels. Tedros Adhanom

I truly believe that, together, we can create a healthier world. Tedros Adhanom

Together World Believe Healthier Truly Create

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand. Tedros Adhanom

Health Respond Outbreak Ministry Only Joining Adult Part Observed Soon Also First-Hand Malaria Effects Shocking Where Children Experienced After Epidemic Ethiopia Team Village

The monetary impacts of malaria from the household to the global level are significant. Malaria tends to strike during harvest season, rendering families too sick and too weak to perform the work necessary to earn a living. Malaria-stricken families spend an average of over a quarter of their income on malaria treatment. Tedros Adhanom

Work Living Sick Too Earn Spend Strike Weak Harvest Significant Impacts Tends Perform Over Global Rendering Household Quarter Malaria Families Average Income Season Monetary Level Necessary Treatment

Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II. Tedros Adhanom

War World Seen Other Several Extremist Crises Scale Religious See Entrenched Leading Since Armed Like Parts Protracted Motivated Been Politically Refugee Africa Conflicts Regions Ethnic Now Violence World War World War II

Jihadist organizations attempt to exploit discontent among marginalized groups in unstable societies. Tedros Adhanom

Attempt Unstable Discontent Exploit Organizations Groups Among Societies Marginalized

I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time. Zeresenay Alemseged

Time You Technology Entertainment Old First Design Tools Back Evidence Beads Genes Track Learned Years Years Ago Same Stone Form Them Your Appeared Million Million Years

I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human. Zeresenay Alemseged

Nature Man Job Define Makes Human Place Us Explore

Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the species known as Australopithecus afarensis. Zeresenay Alemseged

Girl Complete Our Most She Known Years Years Ago Died Skeleton Who Lived Species Million Million Years Belongs

At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents. Zeresenay Alemseged

You Age Behavior Care Three Parents Faster Birth Our Easily Percent Environment Over Continue Brain Brains Very Than Human Human Behavior After Anyway Formed Us Grow Why Cope Humans Need

I went to start the first Ethiopian-led project in paleoanthropology, ever. Doing that was not easy. Zeresenay Alemseged

First Project Easy Doing Ever Start

My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view. Zeresenay Alemseged

Work Family Me Think Way Gives Perfect Individual Match Am Reference Very View Sapiens Who Homo Homo Sapiens

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