Debrework Zewdie

Debrework Zewdie (Amharic: ደብረወርቅ ዘውዴ), is an Ethiopian immunologist, known for her role in shaping international response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and her leadership positions at the World Bank and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Quotes "I’ve dedicated my career to improving public health and tackling some of the developing world’s most difficult health issues" "However, we cannot defeat tuberculosis without new tools. I look forward to helping TB Alliance advance its mission, particularly at this important time in its history when it has a very promising late-stage pipeline and is poised for impact". "I was so impressed...in my 35 years of development work, I have never seen a cleaner or more well run hospital in any of the developing countries I've visited - and I've visited many. It is also a testament that with the right leadership one can do so much with very little." "It's not a given that a developing country would be doing research. We need to sustain treatment programmes and the cost of the programmes, and that requires research." “We had to use that language. Nobody was going to pay attention if we just pitched it as yet another health problem.” “Just because somebody’s coming with a briefcase full of money doesn’t make them your superior.” “Nobody does anything by one’s self — it’s a group effort.” "Knowing what you want to do and having excellent evidence will turn even a deaf ear the other way around." "Poverty, gender inequality and sexual violence, and the failure in some cases to get treatment for infected homosexual men were some of the fundamental drivers of the HIV/AIDS epidemic." External links