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.

Former President Jimmy Carter's approach to public health shows how listening, building trust, and showing empathy can achieve big improvements – and how faith and science need not be divided. Experts who worked closely with him in Atlanta share the lessons of Carter's legacy.

President Jimmy Carter channeled his work on the world ... talking to the leadership of the World Health Organization and UNICEF and other international U.N. agencies. But then he was also talking ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, was devoted to global health in the decades following his time in office, particularly through his nongovernmental organization The Carter Center. Along the way, Carter collaborated with some of the biggest pharma companies in the world to deliver innovations that addressed daunting global challenges.

In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.

Jimmy Carter’s work promoting global public ... talking to the leadership of the World Health Organization and UNICEF and other international U.N. agencies. But then he was also talking to ...

I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” Carter said at a news conference in 2015. “I’d like for the last Guinea worm to die before I do. I think right now we have 11 cases.

The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's work, he came tantalizingly close, lowering the number of yearly cases from 3.

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.

His post-presidency demonstrated a special combination of bold aspiration coupled with strategic, detailed, and sustained execution.