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.

Jimmy Carter believed “that science is part of God’s gift ... 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 ...

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Our nation lost a great American patriot and statesman; the world lost a citizen. There will never be another Jimmy Carter. He didn't just talk about his Christian faith like many, he practiced it faithfully, and people all over the world benefited – politically, economically and medically.

Jimmy Carter's legacy includes a major medical contribution: the eradication of guinea worm disease. Learn about this ancient disease and his efforts.

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.

Former President Carter's state funeral is Thursday. A Sun-Times reporter interviewed Carter in Nepal in 2008, and writes about his work to eradicate the eye disease trachoma and other neglected tropical diseases.

"The bottom line is that withdrawing from the WHO makes Americans and the world less safe," says Dr. Tom Frieden, president and CEO of the nonprofit health organization Resolve to Save Lives and former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among them were motions to withdraw the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.