The Carter Center

A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, The Carter Center has helped to improve life for people in over 80 countries by supporting local partners in their work to resolve conflicts; advance democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; prevent diseases; and improve mental health care. The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide. A leader in the eradication and elimination of diseases, the Center fights six preventable diseases — Guinea worm, river blindness, trachoma, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, and malaria in Hispaniola — by using health education and simple, low-cost prevention and treatment methods. The Center also strives to improve access to mental health care globally. These efforts have brought to resource-limited countries, including those most vulnerable to climate change, better disease surveillance and health care delivery systems. Because communities often are burdened by several diseases, the Center also is pioneering new public health approaches to efficiently and effectively treat multiple diseases at once. The Carter Center combines direct community-level health interventions with government partnerships, policy analysis, and research to identify complex challenges to disease eradication and improved mental health, and design innovative approaches to address vulnerabilities and strengthen health systems. 

Supporting the following commitments:

• Commitment 1: Conduct climate change and health vulnerability and adaptation assessments (V&As) at population level and/or health care facility level.

Country experience:

The Carter Center has a physical presence in the following countries, implementing programs related to the themes of Commitment 1, specifically assessing climate-related vulnerabilities and adaptation measures in health systems and public health interventions:  
Dominican Republic 
Ethiopia
Nigeria
South Sudan
Mali
Chad 
Angola
Guatemala
Venezuela 
Brazil
Colombia
Ecuador
Mexico

*In many of these countries, The Carter Center has a history of programming that contributes to the goals of Commitment 1, but also has begun or will shortly begin implementation on a new project and/or research with the explicit goals of assessing climate vulnerability and developing interventions to support climate-resilient health systems in conflict-affected countries.