1. On Suffering and Structural Violence: The Case of Haiti Cate Oswald, MPH Partners In Health

2. Are people sick because they are poor or are they poor because they are sick?

3. “A Worker’s Speech to a Doctor” When we come to you Our rags are torn off us And you listen all over our naked body. As to the cause of our illness One glace at our rags would Tell you more. It is the same cause that wears out our bodies and our clothes. The pain in our shoulder comes You say, from the damp; and this is also the reason For the stain on the wall of our flat. So tell us: Where does the damp come from? -Bertolt Brecht

4. SOCIAL DISEASES = Diseases with a direct correlation Between vulnerability/incidence and low socio-economic status REQUIRE SOCIAL SOLUTIONS

5. Pragmatic solidarity is different from, but nourished by, solidarity — the desire to make common cause with those in need. Solidarity itself is a precious thing: people enduring great hardship often remark that they are grateful for the prayers and good wishes of fellow human beings. But when sentiment is accompanied by the goods and services that might diminish unjust hardship, surely it is enriched. Pragmatic Solidarity

6. “Massive poverty and obscene inequality are such terrible scourges of our times… that they have to rank alongside slavery and apartheid as social ills… like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made, and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Nelson Mandela, 2005