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Lillian Carter Center marks 10 years of global outreach

In this White House photo, President Jimmy Carter hugs Miss Lillian, mother, nurse and Peace Corps volunteer.

The School of Nursing will soon observe the 10th anniversary of the Lillian Carter Center for Global Health & Social Responsibility, dedicated by former President Jimmy Carter in October 2001. Formerly known as the Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing, the center is named for Miss Lillian, nurse, Peace Corps volunteer, and the president’s mother.

“Our center has touched the lives of so many people across the world,” says director Martha Rogers MD. “The 10-year anniversary is the perfect time to announce the center’s new name and reflect on its many accomplishments as we forge ahead with our mission to transform health and healing on a global scale.”

Through the Lillian Carter Center, Emory nursing faculty and students have provided critical nursing care to thousands of people by

• Treating more than 15,000 farm workers and their children in Moultrie, Georgia, through the Farm Worker Family Health Program;

• Working with underserved populations in Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic through the Alternative Break Program for students;

• Strengthening the delivery of maternal and newborn health services in Ethiopia;

• Enhancing the health care workforce in Zimbabwe and Kenya; and

• Offering health care in clinics for vulnerable populations across Atlanta.

In November, the School of Nursing will commemorate the center’s decade of global leadership, scholarship, and service with a series of special events, including a keynote address by environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  For more details, visit nursing.emory.edu.