Healthy People Quotable Quotes

The following quotes from leading health authorities may be used to craft messages and garner media attention for public health projects. Use these quotes in your copy, as a sidebar, or as a margin runner depending on your design.

Quotes from Donna E. Shalala, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services:

"The Healthy People initiative has defined the nation's health agenda for the last two decades. It identifies the most significant opportunities to improve health and focuses public and private sector efforts on those areas."

"These achievements are the result of a public-private partnership, including more than 350 national organizations, that is the foundation of Healthy People's success. We enter the new millennium as a team working together."

Quotes from Dr. David Satcher, Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health:

"In many ways, Americans of all ages and in every race and ethnic groups have better health today than a decade ago yet considerable disparities remain." "We should commit our nation to eliminate disparities in the next decade," he said, "for through prevention we can improve the health of all Americans."

"Let your voice be heard this fall and participate in drafting 2010 objectives that will shape the nation's health agenda and guide national health improvement into the 21st century in the call to participate in the final public comment period in late 1998, the Surgeon General said."

"I look forward to you being the future health leaders who move this great nation to realize our vision of Healthy People in Healthy Communities—Health for All in the 21st century."

"Building public-private partnerships is the foundation of Healthy People's success. We enter the new millennium as a team working together. Through prevention we can improve the health of all Americans."

"As our nation's Surgeon General, I have made reducing and eliminating health disparities one of my top priorities, with an emphasis on six areas: infant mortality, adult immunizations, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, cancer screening and management, and diabetes."

"Through an initiative that I lead, Healthy People, we will be working to build upon the improvements in the health achievements in the current decade. But, many disparities remain, and we all need to do more to achieve health equity for all."

Partnerships for Health in the New Millennium          January 24-28, 2000         Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

Updated: 05/01/08