A Legacy of Impact in Global Health

Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter for their longstanding and tireless contributions to public health. 1Co-founded by the Carters in 1982, The Carter Center focuses its efforts on central values of peace, human rights, and alleviation of suffering.Because of the core belief that health is a human right, The Carter Center developed health programs (encompassing mental health and neglected tropical diseases [NTDs]) in parallel with its peace programs (encompassing conflict resolution and democracy).The Carters grew up in rural southern Georgia and knew first-hand the impacts that infectious diseases and mental illness had on impoverished people, and how they compounded inequities.The fact that President Carter's mother, Miss Lillian, was a nurse, instilled in