Author Profile
Gro Harlem Brundtland
1939 • Norwegian • Politician
33
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 33 quotesThis syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Let me first say that I don't think the millennium target of cutting global poverty in half is an impossible or abstract target. I think it is a real and achievable goal.— Gro Harlem Brundtland
I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines for infectious diseases in the poorest countries.— Gro Harlem Brundtland