May 22, 2013, 12:22 pm
By The Carter Center
Carter Center and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) experts discuss the latest updates on the campaign to wipe out a debilitating parasitic disease, river blindness (onchocerciasis) from the Western Hemisphere via Google+ Hangout On Air.
Participants include:
Dr. Mark Eberhard, senior microbiologist, CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria
Dr. Frank Richards, director, Carter Center River Blindness
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May 16, 2013, 10:45 am
By The Carter Center
On April 18, 2013, former U.S. First Lady and Carter Center Co-Founder Rosalynn Carter and former Congressman Tony Coelho joined experts from the federal government and other mental health officials to discuss new research published in the American Journal of Public Health’s first theme issue on stigma against people with mental illness at The Carter Center in Atlanta.
The theme …
May 13, 2013, 4:45 pm
By Rebecca Palpant Shimkets
Rebecca Palpant Shimkets, assistant director in the Carter Center’s Mental Health Program, describes the stigma facing people with mental illnesses and how the Carter Center’s activities aim to help.
