William Foege Quotes

United States, Epidemiologist
March 12, 1936

William Herbert Foege M.D., M.P.H. (/ˈfeɪɡi/; born March 12, 1936) is an American epidemiologist who is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s". Foege also "played a central role" in efforts that greatly increased immunization rates in developing countries in the 1980s.

Finally, develop tenacity and an optimistic outlook. It doesn't mean that everything will always work out or that you won't suffer. But pessimism seems to be designed to force you to suffer before the fact!

William Foege
Vaccines are the tugboats of preventive health.

William Foege
- Vaccines

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.

William Foege
- People
- World
- Healthy
Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

William Foege
- Problem
Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege
- Knows
- Thanks
- Disease