GatesFoundation | President Jimmy Carter: Champion of Global Health @GatesFoundation | Uploaded March 2023 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been a longtime source of inspiration, counsel, and wisdom to many in the global health community. For decades, he has led the campaign to make Guinea worm disease the second-ever human disease (after smallpox) to be eradicated, and he has championed many other health causes, from the elimination of several other neglected tropical diseases to mental health and HIV/AIDs.
We asked some of President Carter’s friends and colleagues in the foundation’s orbit to reflect on the enormous impact he and his wife Rosalynn Carter have had on global health and communities around the world.
Read more: gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/honoring-jimmy-carter-global-health-eradicate-guinea-worm
We are optimists on a mission to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. Since 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has launched initiatives, including the Goalkeepers, to tackle the world’s greatest problems. Follow us here on the Gates Foundation Youtube channel to see how we’re facing our world’s greatest challenges.
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has been a longtime source of inspiration, counsel, and wisdom to many in the global health community. For decades, he has led the campaign to make Guinea worm disease the second-ever human disease (after smallpox) to be eradicated, and he has championed many other health causes, from the elimination of several other neglected tropical diseases to mental health and HIV/AIDs.
We asked some of President Carter’s friends and colleagues in the foundation’s orbit to reflect on the enormous impact he and his wife Rosalynn Carter have had on global health and communities around the world.
Read more: gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/honoring-jimmy-carter-global-health-eradicate-guinea-worm
We are optimists on a mission to create a world where every person has the opportunity to live a healthy, productive life. Since 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has launched initiatives, including the Goalkeepers, to tackle the world’s greatest problems. Follow us here on the Gates Foundation Youtube channel to see how we’re facing our world’s greatest challenges.
Website: gatesfoundation.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gatesfoundat...
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gatesfounda...
Twitter: twitter.com/gatesfoundation
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bill...
