THE World Peacemaker: President Carter CARTER Awarded 2002 Nobel Peace Prize he Norwegian Nobel Committee Nobel and are presented each year on awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Dec. 10, the anniversary of his death CENTER TPrize to former U.S. President in 1896. Jimmy Carter for “his decades of untiring “He was the politician who during his effort to find peaceful solutions to inter- presidency attempted to bring about a more NEWS national conflicts, to advance democracy peaceful world,” Berge said. “He was, and and human rights, and to promote continues to be, the mediator who seeks economic and social development.” peaceful solutions to international con- JANUARY–JUNE 2003 During the announcement Oct. 11 flicts. He has shown, and still shows, an and the acceptance ceremony on Dec. 10, outstanding commitment to democracy the committee cited President Carter’s and human rights. His humanitarian and social activities IN THIS ISSUE have been, and are still, far-reaching.” UP FRONT Berge contin- President Carter Named 2002 ued, “As if media- Nobel Peace Prize Laureate ...... 1 tion, human rights, From the Executive Director ...... 2

Atlanta Journal-Constitution and disarmament Profile: Joyce Murray ...... 3 were not enough, PEACE The Carter Center Jamaicans Renew Confidence has in cooperation in Democratic Process ...... 4 with other organi-

Focus on Elections ...... 5 Photo by Joey Ivansco/ zations headed a Center Remains Involved in number of impor- Democracy in Venezuela ...... 5 tant health cam- HEALTH paigns. So far the best results have Clear Vision Is in Their Future ...... 6 been achieved in SG2000 Helps Increase Yield ...... 7 the fight against Mrs. Carter and Center Examine Guinea worm Sept. 11 Mental Health Impact . . . . .7 infection. Today the number of cases has Backpacks Provide Needed Supplies . . .7 negotiation of the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel and praised his been reduced by more than 95 percent. NEWS BRIEFS work through The Carter Center in Having overcome smallpox, the world is National Hall of Fame Atlanta on the occasion of its 20th now on the verge of exterminating another Inducts Mrs. Carter ...... 8 anniversary in 2002. major epidemic disease.” School of Public Health Chair, Calling him one of the most deserving President Carter then gave his 20- Mental Health Fellows Appointed . .8 laureates, Norwegian Nobel Committee minute Nobel lecture on the responsibility Chairman Gunnar Berge bestowed a of powerful nations to preserve peace and diploma and gold medal on President alleviate suffering in the poorest nations. THE Carter at a formal ceremony in Oslo City “Most work of The Carter Center is in remote villages in the poorest nations of CARTER CENTER Hall attended by Norway’s King Harald V and Queen Sonja. The Nobel prizes, first Africa, and there I have witnessed the awarded in 1901, were created by Swedish capacity of destitute people to persevere industrialist and dynamite inventor Alfred under heartbreaking conditions,” he said. “I have come to admire their judgment and wisdom, their courage and faith, and their Mrs. Carter Named to continued on page 2 Women’s Hall of Fame One Copenhill The full text of President Carter’s Atlanta, GA 30307 (Full article, page 8.) Nobel lecture is available at (404) 420-5100 www.cartercenter.org. www.cartercenter.org UP FRONT

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“ eople everywhere share the same vision, and courage—in neighborhoods, dream of a caring international com- nations, and sometimes on the world Photo by Julie Benz Pmunity that prevents war and oppres- stage. Yet finding permanent solutions sion,” said President Carter after the Nobel to complex global problems demands Peace Prize was announced last October. collective long-term commitment and At The Carter Center, we could not shared responsibility. do our share in making that dream come Not everyone has the influence of a true without the support of thousands of former president, but each of us has the partners around the world—organizations, capacity to reach out to help others in individual donors, foundations, and most some way big or small. We have been of all, people abroad who work with us to blessed at The Carter Center that so many address unique local challenges as well as are reaching out by joining in our work. global issues in peace and health. We would be remiss if on the occasion The Nobel Committee acknowledged of the Nobel Peace Prize we did not John Hardman, M.D. that progress requires partnership when acknowledge the role of these partners in it cited successes of The Carter Center our success: foundations that support spe- abroad; and all of those who strengthen us among the reasons it honored him with cific projects in peace and health; individu- by sharing our vision for the future. the peace prize: progress against tropical als who donate from their personal savings; The list is too long for individual diseases, conflict resolution on several 18 countries that, through financial grants, acknowledgments, so I invite each of you continents, advancing democracy and have endorsed the Center’s vision; eminent to join in our celebration at The Carter human rights, promoting economic and current and former leaders in Latin Center of President Carter’s award. We social development. America, Africa, and Asia who volunteer thank you for sharing our cause of “waging President Carter’s example shows us their time and expertise to advance specific peace, fighting disease, and building hope” that one person, working with others, can Center objectives; other nongovernmental for struggling people worldwide. Together, make a difference—through leadership, organizations in the United States and we are making a difference.

continued from cover page ceremony’s end. As Nobel committee students at Uppsala University. members escorted President Carter out of The Nobel Peace Prize comes with Nobel Prize, cont. the hall, President Carter handed the a financial award of 10 million Swedish awesome accomplishments when given a diploma and medal to his wife, Rosalynn. kronor, about US $1 million. Most of the chance to use their innate abilities. But Later that day, President and Mrs. funds will go to The Carter Center, with tragically, in the industrialized world there Carter were honored with a torchlight some to the Rosalynn Carter Institute is a terrible absence of understanding or vigil and serenade outside their hotel for Human Development at Georgia concern about those who are enduring lives before attending a black-tie banquet and Southwestern State University. President of despair and hopelessness.” gala. The following night Sir Anthony Carter said the money will go to a rapid Listening in the Hopkins and actress Jessica response fund to be used for Center audience were his wife, Lange hosted the three-hour projects that require immediate action. Rosalynn, his four children Nobel Peace Prize Concert at The gold medal and diploma will be and their spouses, his the Oslo Spektrum, a moving permanently displayed at the Jimmy Carter grandchildren, friends, and musical tribute by performers Library and Museum in Atlanta, Ga.

officials from The Carter Photo by Connie Nelson from around the world. Bronze replicas of the medal and repro- Center and his White Following events in ductions of the diploma will be displayed at House administration. After Oslo, President Carter the not-for-profit Carter Center, adjacent his speech, King Harald visited Stockholm, Sweden, to the Museum and Library, and at the and Queen Sonja rose to to meet the other 2002 high school in Plains, Ga. The diploma congratulate the new Nobel laureates, address includes a striking original watercolor of laureate as trumpets the Swedish Riksdag a dove of peace by the noted Norwegian sounded signaling the (Parliament), and speak with artist Ulf Valde Jensen.

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PROFILE: JOYCE MURRAY “We will be evaluating the program’s impact in more detail,” she continues, “but we already know two areas that need more New Director a Quick Study attention: mental health, particularly in families who’ve lost parents or husbands to HIV/AIDS, and a CD-ROM-based in Ethiopian Health Needs means of continuing the education of graduating students, so they can become more effective teachers and keep up with challenges are more basic. Although ight years ago, the Carter Center’s new training materials being developed.” newest program director, Joyce the program’s students can be taught in EMurray, had never been in a English, they must provide health educa- developing country. As a professor at tion in a country in which 87 languages “One of the unanticipated Atlanta’s Emory University, however, are spoken, and poor roads make it time- outcomes of this initiative is the she became an adviser to three Ethiopian consuming to take students into villages nursing students. She recalls cautioning for hands-on training. stronger relationship built among them, “What I’m telling you may not apply “One of the unanticipated outcomes the scattered college faculties and to the circumstances in your country.” of this initiative,” Dr. Murray says, “is the stronger relationship built among the government health ministry.” scattered college faculties and government The initiative’s mission is to health ministry. In our workshops, they Three Ethiopians who Dr. Murray will develop health material for use in develop a common focus on their country’s be counting on to play a role in bringing training staff for 500 facilities most critical health needs. More impor- improved health care to their country tantly, our program’s graduates report that include two college faculty members and established to bring health care the work they’re doing is making a real an official with the nation’s ministry of to rural Ethiopians—85 percent difference in the quality of health care health. They are the nursing students she people now receive. of the population. advised almost a decade ago at Emory.

Left: Dr. Murray speaks with Three years later, she would learn just Ato Alemayehu Galmessa how wise that cautionary note was. She (middle), a psychiatric nurse traveled to Ethiopia on a grant to help who is an instructor from Alemaya University, and improve nursing programs there. Her Ato Belete Shiferaw (right), exposure to a very different medical a nursing instructor from environment continued with her involve- Dilla College, during a field ment during the past three years with the visit to a rural health clinic. Center’s Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative she now directs. Although she and other international experts assist in shaping the initiative’s curriculum, they rely on local faculty teams to determine Right: Dr. which health problems need to be Murray, nursing Photos by Laura Lester addressed in that country. The top concerns students, and other health vary greatly from those in the United States: professionals Infant diarrhea, malnutrition, malaria, and visit a health HIV/AIDS are all potential killers. center near The initiative’s mission is to develop Dilla, Ethiopia. health material for use in training staff for 500 facilities established to bring health care to rural Ethiopians—85 percent of the population. War with Eritrea disrupted the program at one point, but the ongoing

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“While violence in the so-called Jamaicans Renew Confidence garrison communities remains a concern, we found preparations for the elections to be exemplary,” said Laura Neuman, who in Democratic Process organized the mission for the Americas Program. elping to break the cycle of “The insti- violence that plagued previous tution of the Helections in Jamaica, The Carter Elections Center in October observed the island Centre nation’s second relatively peaceful election. allowed for

Jamaica’s Electoral Advisory Photo by Rebekah Raleigh the immedi- Committee invited The Carter Center to ate resolution observe its parliamentary elections in of disputes, 1997 and 2002, hoping to deter election- and a lot related violence. The outbreak of violence of progress during the 1980 election killed more than was made 800 people. Yet in 1997 and 2002, when in the con- Jamaica invited international observers, sultative election-related violence in the “garrison” process in communities controlled by politically verifying the related armed gangs was reduced. A boy’s sign indicates his wish at a march for peace outside Kingston. voters list, determining the location of polling stations, and selecting poll Domestic Observers Enhance System workers, which helped generate confidence in the process.” orking with domestic observers lawyer and recipient of Order Jamaica, Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Wis key to many of the Carter the country’s highest civilian honor. and former Costa Rica President Miguel Center’s effective election observations. “Election observers add a great Angel Rodriguez led a 60-member inter- Together, domestic and international deal,” Dr. Barnett said. “It is in itself national delegation, representing 16 observers can ensure coverage of most, a utilization of the democratic process. countries. Both presidents are members if not all, of a country and can observe Observers also help to prevent the of the Center’s Council of Presidents and in highly political areas, helping to corruption of the system because their Prime Ministers of the Americas, a group lower tensions in volatile regions. presence is a deterrent to irregularities. of 35 leaders who have monitored elections In Jamaica, the Center’s Americas Political parties have now come to throughout the Western Hemisphere since Program coordinated its efforts with accept the value of having observer 1987. The council, headquartered at the CAFFE, Citizen’s Action for Free missions.” Center’s Americas Program, seeks to and Fair CAFFE’s coverage was invaluable, reinforce democracy, resolve conflict, Elections, especially under the difficult circum- and advance cooperation in the Western to observe stances of not having an election Hemisphere. Jamaica Prime Minister P. J. the October date until close to the election, said Patterson and leader of the opposition 2002 par- Laura Neuman, senior program asso- the Hon. Edward Seaga, who served as liamentary ciate, the Americas Program. prime minister from 1980–1988, also elections. “CAFFE briefed the Center’s are members. CAFFE, short- and medium-term observers on Patterson’s People’s National Party established election issues, particularly the fear of won its fourth consecutive parliamentary in 1997, is violence,” Neuman said. “In many of election and appointed him to his third headed by the constituencies, the first person our Dr. Lloyd Barnett, term as prime minister. Before election a human rights Dr. Lloyd observers met was a CAFFE observer, day, Patterson and Seaga signed a political lawyer, is chairman Barnett, a who provided immeasurable help.” code of conduct to demonstrate their of CAFFE. human rights commitment to peaceful elections.

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the longtime president won the presidency Waging Peace Around the in a milestone election The Carter Center observed to be open and competitive in spite of some irregularities. World: Focus on Elections Mwai Kibaki, a former finance minister, was elected Dec. 27 to succeed Nigeria The delegation urged political party President Daniel arap Moi, who was leaders to denounce mounting violence Carter Center-National Democratic president for 24 years before Kenya’s con- and the government to put into place a Institute assessment mission in stitution forbade him from running again. A security plan for the election. “A violence- November found millions of voters still Carter Center observers, led by former free election will help to ensure the unregistered for elections expected in Zambia President Kenneth Kaunda and integrity of the election process to advance April 2003. Carter Center Associate Executive Director the overriding goal of consolidating The joint mission deployed 19 Gordon Streeb, visited more than 200 civilian, democratic government in observers throughout the country to meet polling stations in Nairobi and six Nigeria,” said Charles Costello, director with political parties, electoral officials, provinces on election day. of the Democracy Program. and civil society groups. NDI and the “The Electoral Commission of Kenya Center also jointly observed Nigeria’s Kenya should be commended for its preparations 1999 elections and found serious flaws and impartiality in conducting the elec- reaking a 33-year political hold by the and fraud in the process. tions,” Streeb said. “Although there were Bruling party in Kenya, a former ally of inequitable media access for the opposition parties and confusion over the voter registry, the elections were well-managed and the outcome reflected the will of the Center Remains Involved in Kenyan people.” Democracy in Venezuela China n December 2002, at the invitation of eeking to resolve Venezuela’s 2000 election to be flawed, although the Ithe Chinese National People’s Congress, political crisis, an international outcome of the presidential election was The Carter Center became the first inter- Stripartite group including The not in question. After massive protests, national organization to observe county- Carter Center, the Organization of Chávez was removed from power but later level congress deputies elections, the American States, and the United Nations reinstated. Since then, opposition groups, highest level of direct elections in China. Development Programme began formal protesting what they see as his increasing Observers monitored elections in reconciliation talks in November with the undemocratic actions, have organized gen- six polling sites in three cities in Yunnan government and several opposition groups. eral strikes and large street protests, some province. The Center has observed village of which have ended in violence, to call for elections in China since 1997, subsequently Chávez’s resignation and early elections. President Carter made a trip observing higher-level elections in town- The tripartite group began talks in ships and now county level. to the country in July 2002 to lay early November between the government “The Center will continue to focus on the groundwork for negotiations. and opposition political and civil society improving the quality of elections in China groups on an electoral option to move the and helping to standardize procedures,” said country beyond the current crisis. While “The radical changes brought about Dr. Yawei Liu, associate director of the OAS Secretary General César Gaviria by President Hugo Chávez generated Center’s China Village Elections Project. leads the talks, the Center is providing deep divisions within the country that “In Yunnan we saw the use of primaries to strategic advice to him, helping to guide are threatening its democratic institutions narrow the field of candidates, a measure the content and process of the negotiations and economic stability,” Americas Program The Carter Center had recommended in a through a field representative based in Director Dr. Jennifer McCoy said. “A pilot during the township people’s congress Caracas. The UNDP provides logistical major oil exporter, Venezuela’s deepening deputies election in Hebei province in 2002. assistance. President Carter made a trip crisis will affect regional stability as well.” We’d like to see the use of secret ballot to the country in July 2002 to lay the President Chávez was elected demo- booths to protect the secrecy of voting. Now, groundwork for negotiations. The Center’s cratically in 1998 and re-elected to a most voting is done in the open. Voters con- Americas Program and Conflict Resolution six-year term in 2000. The Carter Center sult with each other on their ballots.” Program are collaborating in the effort. observed both elections and found the 5 HEALTH

Clear Vision Is in Their Future n January 2002, the Conference on Ithe Eradicability of Onchocerciasis Combating River Blindness in the Americas met at The Carter Center. More than 60 global experts from a variety of dis- he women of the extended Ramirez treated at home. We are happy to be ciplines met to discuss whether river family—Lisa, Martha, Maria, of help.” blindness was eradicable using current TAnna, and Yesenia—range in age The women also say their work has knowledge and tools. The conference from 16 to 52 and have been involved earned them respect in the community and concluded that the disease is not eradi- with the Carter Center’s effort to eliminate generated faith in the future. “We see that cable globally because of major barriers onchocerciasis, or river blindness, for a other countries are ahead, and we want to to eradication in the 35 countries in collective total of 25 years. keep up Guatemala’s pace toward elimina- Africa where it is found. However, tion,” they say. eradication is possible in the Americas and Yemen and in some sites in Africa. s manager of a coffee plantation, resident Carter and The Carter Padro Sofof has come a long way PCenter actively participated in this Afrom the days when he cleaned year’s World Sight Day, observed Oct. 10, 2002. Held annually, the Photo by Emily Howard coffee plants or cut grass around them. He’s also come a long way toward observance helps increase awareness understanding how to prevent the disease of four diseases: cataracts, trachoma, called river blindness that afflicts his river blindness, and childhood blind- friends and co-workers both when they ness. The Carter Center works year- round on prevention and treatment of both river blindness and trachoma. During an onchocerciasis training he InterAmerican Conference on workshop, Maria and Martha Ramirez TOnchocerciasis met in Manaus, role-play for other health promoters. Brazil, Nov. 19–21, 2002. Reports indi-

Photo by Emily Howard cated the goal of reaching 85 percent of The family lives in Guatemala, where the Americas population with Mectizan only a sister of Martha’s sister-in-law has was achieved during the first of two showed symptoms of the debilitating but annual rounds of treatment in 2002. preventable eye disease the women help fight. That statistic is unusual in a country and the importance of taking Mectizan. in which more than 182,000 people remain “I remember one woman who, three years at risk for this parasitic disease that’s trans- ago, refused to take her second treatment. mitted by black files that breed in rapidly I talked with her, and now she is one of flowing streams. The parasites cause the women who encourages people to take intense itching, and sometimes, blindness. their medication. Another time, the people giving the drug told me that some workers The Carter Center is the only non- Padro Sofof, plantation manager in San did not take their medicine because they governmental organization combating river Lucas Toliman, Guatemala, promotes were in the field when it was administered. blindness in both Africa and the Americas. trust in health services. I went person to person, interrupting their The Center works directly with ministries of work, and they took the medicine.” health, establishing accountability and building work in daylight and when they’re at home Sofof believes that if he can travel to sustainability in the fight against this disease. using lamplight. other coffee plantations with people from “When I was 16 and worked on a Guatemala’s ministry of health, he can coffee plantation, I would be bitten 40 to 50 The women are onchocerciasis village increase the public’s trust in health services. times a day by the black flies,” said Sofof. volunteers, trained to administer tablets of “My main hope is to keep clear vision,” “But more than 10 years ago, I learned Mectizan®, donated by Merck & Co., twice he says. “I want to thank all of you at The about Mectizan and started taking it.” a year to help reach the goal of eradicating Carter Center because you come here to When Sofof came to work on the the disease in the Americas by 2007. teach our people to teach the children how plantation he now manages, he explained “Our work is important,” said Martha the disease is, how to prevent it, and how to his new co-workers about the disease Ramirez, “because people can now be to cure it. Thank you very much.” 6 HEALTH

SG2000 Helps Increase Yield Backpacks Provide

n 15 sub-Saharan African countries, Needed Supplies increasing numbers of farmers are bene- n Friday, Nov. 10, Carter Center fiting from assistance by a partnership I employees and others filled 1,000 of the Carter Center’s Global 2000 pro- Guinea worm backpacks for gram and the Sasakawa Africa Association. O village volunteers in Ghana. Known together as SG2000, the program The backpacks were provided by has shown farmers improved techniques the Centers for Disease Control and

that double or triple their crop yield. The Carter Center/Chris Doswell-SAA Prevention and filled with latex gloves, Moreover, the organization has gained gauze, iodine, and other medical supplies the confidence of rural banks and other purchased by the Center’s Guinea Worm lending institutions to issue loans linked Eradication Program. Center employee to farmers’ commitment to SG2000-proven Renn Doyle and Linda Webb, CDC, (shown high-yield production techniques. To When SG2000 began its work in below) were key to the effort to obtain sustain the system, it’s important that Ghana, no seed companies existed. “We materials and organize the packing process. the seed be sold to farmers rather than started organizations of seed growers,” Dr. The backpacks are being distributed to given away. Last year, banks recovered Haag says. “Eventually, small commercial Guinea worm village volunteers in Ghana, 100 percent of these loans. companies emerged out of these groups, the second most endemic Guinea worm “The power of agricultural technology and they have become profitable.” Most country in the world, to help treat people to improve the lives of people is readily required SG2000 support in the form with the parasitic waterborne disease. The evident,” claims Dr. Wayne Haag, who has of staff training, gaining access to seed Carter Center leads the global campaign to worked in the SG2000 program for 13 varieties that work best in their areas and eradicate Guinea worm disease in Africa. years, “especially in countries like Ghana, advice about storage, packaging, selling, where other parts of the support system fall and distributing. into place after the farmers’ success. It’s In Uganda, more than 14,000 small- very pleasing to see former subsistence scale farmers have been trained in SG2000 farmers become truly commercial farmers techniques, and government support of and build better, more permanent homes.” agriculture and SG2000’s work there has But technology doesn’t mean mech- helped farmers achieve bumper harvests. Photo by Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben Photo by Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben anization. It means improved methods As greater yields have pushed prices lower, of farming and quality seeds, fertilizers, the government has begun to find markets and herbicides. outside the country.

events like Sept. 11 in the future. The idea Mrs. Carter and Center Examine of bringing together experts in mental health is a very big contribution to the Sept. 11 Mental Health Impact security of this country,” said Giuliani.

n the anniversary of the Sept. 11 preventive strategies for broader audi- attacks on the United States, ences,” said the former first lady before a Oformer First Lady Rosalynn Carter conference of the World Federation for urged nations and communities to devise Mental Health in London on Sept. 11.

response plans for terrorism, natural disas- The issue was revisited at the 18th Annemarie Poyo Photo by ters, and other large-scale tragedies that Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on include strategies for dealing with the men- Mental Health Policy in November, where tal health effects that follow such events. former New York City Mayor Rudolph “No country is immune from the Giuliani joined some 200 leaders of national mental health organizations to problem of mass violence. We must Former New York City Mayor Rudolph prepare ourselves for future disasters. The evaluate the aftereffects of the terrorism. Giuliani emphasizes his understanding of mental health world will have to fashion “We’re going to have to deal with the need for mental health services. 7 NEWS BRIEFS

recommendations for new legislation by National Hall of Fame undertaking a series of public hearings Inducts Mrs. Carter across the country. In September 1980, Congress passed the Mental Health n Oct. 5, 2002, six days before Systems Act. President Carter won the Nobel In 1991, she launched with Mrs. Betty OPeace Prize, Carter Center Bumpers, wife of former U.S. Sen. Dale Co-chair Rosalynn Carter joined former Bumpers of Arkansas, “Every Child By first ladies Abigail Adams and Eleanor Two,” a nationwide campaign to publicize Roosevelt when she was inducted into the need for early childhood immunizations. the National Women’s Hall of Fame in She also is president of the board of Seneca Falls, N.Y. Inductees are selected directors for the Rosalynn Carter Institute by a national panel of judges for their for Human Development, established at contributions to the arts, athletics, busi- Georgia Southwestern State University ness, education, government, humanities, Mrs. Carter’s induction was postponed a to help family and professional caregivers, philanthropy, and science. year, due to the Sept. 11 attacks. and is honorary chair of Last Acts, a Widely recognized for her promotion national coalition to improve care for of mental health over the last 30 years, the dying people and their families. Mrs. Carter's work for women, founder and chair of the Carter Center The National Women’s Hall of Fame, children, and the mentally ill Mental Health Task Force has galvanized founded in 1969, is the oldest national key partnerships in the campaign to elimi- institution dedicated to recognizing and is “a living testament to her nate stigma against those with mental honoring the vision and character.” illness, to achieve parity in mental health significant achieve- insurance coverage, and to screen youth ments of individual early for mental and behavioral disorders. American women. “Her lifelong work on behalf of Mrs. Carter has chaired the World Seneca Falls, N.Y., women, children, and the mentally ill is Federation for Mental Health’s Inter- Photo by Emily Howard is the birthplace a living testament to her vision and char- national Committee of Women Leaders of the women’s acter. In this day and age, Mrs. Carter’s for Mental Health since its establishment. rights movement ongoing dedication to making our country As first lady of the United States, Mrs. and site of the first a better place for all is, indeed, a great and Carter served as active honorary chair of Women’s Rights worthy achievement,” said Marilyn Bero, the President’s Commission on Mental Convention president of the National Women’s Hall Health. Within one year, the commission in 1848. of Fame. Originally named in 2001, assessed the current system and made

School of Public Health Chair, Mental Health Fellows Appointed he Carter Center Mental Health “Mental illnesses have been neglected Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism Program this past fall celebrated the for too long in the also were announced. The fellowships are Tappointment of the Rosalynn public health arena, part of an international effort by The Carter Chair in Mental Health—the only and this will bring Carter Center to reduce stigma against such academic chair for mental health at national recognition people with mental illnesses and decrease a school of public health—and named and attention to the incorrect and stereotypical information eight journalists to receive the 2002-2003 promotion of mental through the media. The fellows include Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental health and the pre- the program’s first photojournalist, two Health Journalism. vention of mental journalists from New Zealand, a reporter Emory University’s Rollins School of disabilities. We look from The Washington Post, an editor from Public Health named Benjamin G. Druss, forward to working Dr. Benjamin the Los Angeles Times, a producer from Druss serves as M.D., M.P.H., to the chair, effective Dec. with Dr. Druss,” said WABC-TV in New York, and several Emory University’s 31, 2002. The endowed chair is the first Mrs. Carter. first Rosalynn freelance print and radio journalists. joint appointment between the Rollins The sixth annual Carter Chair in Visit www.cartercenter.org for more School and The Carter Center. Rosalynn Carter Mental Health. information on the fellows and their projects. 8