The World Health Organization leader worked with Carter for 20 years to fight the world's "neglected" diseases. After attending Carter's funeral, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus shared memories.
The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.
The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's work, he came tantalizingly close, lowering the number of yearly cases from 3.
Former President Jimmy Carter's approach to public health shows how listening, building trust, and showing empathy can achieve big improvements – and how faith and science need not be divided. Experts who worked closely with him in Atlanta share the lessons of Carter's legacy.
President Jimmy Carter channeled his work on the world ... talking to the leadership of the World Health Organization and UNICEF and other international U.N. agencies. But then he was also talking ...
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, was devoted to global health in the decades following his time in office, particularly through his nongovernmental organization The Carter Center. Along the way, Carter collaborated with some of the biggest pharma companies in the world to deliver innovations that addressed daunting global challenges.
In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.
Jimmy Carter’s work promoting global public ... talking to the leadership of the World Health Organization and UNICEF and other international U.N. agencies. But then he was also talking to ...
It’s the world’s most exclusive fraternity and, on Thursday, all five members of the so-called presidents club will gather to honor one of their own.
Former President Carter's state funeral is Thursday. A Sun-Times reporter interviewed Carter in Nepal in 2008, and writes about his work to eradicate the eye disease trachoma and other neglected tropical diseases.
While one might argue the mixed legacy of his presidency, Jimmy Carter’s post-presidential humanitarian acts are unmatched by any former president. Among those, I’d like to draw attention to his leadership in the effort to eradicate the frightful parasitic disease dracunculiasis,