[1] As a young man, he had ambitions to be a journalist but instead, he travelled to the United States of America to study microbiology.

[3] At the global and American regional levels, Ramsammy has served as the President of the World Health Assembly and the PAHO Directing Council, and he was the representative for Latin America and the Caribbean on the Board of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.

[4] At the Caribbean regional level, he has been Chairman of the Caribbean Community’s Council for Human and Social Development, Chair of the Caucus of CARICOM Ministers responsible for Health, and was recently named Chairman of the Executive Board of the newly established Caribbean Public Health Agency, CARPHA, which aims to integrate the current CARICOM specialized centres and more efficiently and effectively address the regional public health needs of CARICOM countries.

[citation needed] He believes that global health must be prioritized by Member States and that countries must be clear about their ambitions.

As an ardent supporter of equity and social justice, Ramsammy cautions: "We should not be satisfied with reaching for the low-hanging fruit."