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.

Jimmy Carter’s example — as a leader, a humanitarian, and a human — can guide us through these unclear times, writes WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

During and after his presidency, President Carter also demonstrated the political and moral leadership of the United States over and over again, and its role in advancing global security, collaboration and health to protect everyone in America and around the world. These examples and more are prescient for today’s volatile world.

And with his wife, Rosalynn Carter, carving out space for people ... who is now director-general of the World Health Organization. While Carter had come to talk about another program, Tedros said his country needed help with malaria. That encounter led ...

Rosalynn Carter, born Eleanor Rosalynn Smith on August 18, 1927, in Plains, Georgia, was a prominent American public figure and the lifelong companion of the 39th president of the

In 2023, Rosalynn Carter received the WHO Award for Global ... health of Ethiopia and second as director-general of the World Health Organization. One thing I remember – this was our first ...

With its withdrawal, the US cedes its outsize influence in the global health organization to countries like China and puts lives at risk.

The U.S.'s decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization has received global criticism, with the WHO expressing regret.

The withdrawal means the WHO will lose both a significant percentage of its funding but also the expertise of U.S. health professionals.

“It was a tiny organization in 1984 when ... my kids and I to be a part of this.” Rosalynn Carter, who died in 2023, was long an advocate for mental health support while her husband held ...

The project will create a new home for the Guzman family, who lived on the lot for over 30 years in a house that was unrepairable as they approached retirement.

James Earl Carter Jr. will never go down in the history books as a great president. The difficult circumstances during his single term in the White House left the indelible