Quotes from Gro Harlem Brundtland

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.

Health is the core of human development

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries.

An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

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.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.

This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.

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.

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance.

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

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.

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

Contaminated food is a major cause of diarrhea, substantially contributing to malnutrition and killing about 2.2 million people each year, most of them children.

Although approximately 80% of osteoporosis sufferers are women, as the longevity of the male population increases, the disease will assume increasing importance in men

Women power is a formidable force.

Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.