Raising awareness versus raising alarm the public can't be better informed if the information isn't better.

— T.K. Naliaka

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

— T.K. Naliaka

Somehow your heart still knows me.

— T.K. Naliaka

The entire world has benefited and prospered since the decisive defeat of Yellow Fever, an unconventional and far-reaching military victory derived from the field medical discoveries of U.S. Army Major Dr. Walter Reed, designed and carried out by U.S. Army Major Dr. William Gorgas with the overall support under the command of U.S. Army General Leonard Wood.

— T.K. Naliaka

The strength of human instinct seems to be quite overrated as it is so feeble it requires a lifetime of guidance, education, training and practical experience to develop. More critically, without conscious and diligent effort across one generation to pass its knowledge on to the next generation, all that was gained will be lost, forewarned by an increasing rarity of the reminiscence, “Every secret of life I know, I learned at my grandfather’s knee.

— T.K. Naliaka

The wolves of the world have no pity for the confused, the scattered, the lost or the weak.

— T.K. Naliaka

Though they were not familiar with the expression, to paraphrase the saying, when any country in the Sahel sneezes, the rest of the region catches pneumonia, the men there would have clicked their tongues and ruefully nodded their heads that 'wooly' this was the truth.

— T.K. Naliaka

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

— T.K. Naliaka

To witness the awe of human beings delighting in their own hands forming the written word was humbling, and he understood it profoundly at that moment watching those two, with the ancient land around them, in their traditional robes and the resting camels by their campfire, intently regarding writing with such immense respect … that illiteracy meant subsistence, while literacy meant human advancement, the base on which higher achievements and accomplishments of great civilizations could be built.

— T.K. Naliaka

Transparency is critical in public health and epidemics laypeople become either effective force-multipliers or stubborn walls.

— T.K. Naliaka