Carter Center Experts Guide

For your future reference, Carter Center staff can provide media with commentary on a wide range of topical world issues. Following is a short list of experts from our staff of 150 and the issues they are available to discuss. To contact any of them, please call the Carter Center Office of Public Information at 404-420-5117.

John Hardman, M.D.
Executive Director: the Center's mission and agenda, its peace and health programmatic work, and the growing influence of nongovernmental organizations worldwide

Steven Hochman, Ph.D.
Director of Research: history of the American presidency, the role of nongovernmental organizations in public policy, and the life of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter

PEACE PROGRAMS

Ambassador Gordon Streeb
Associate Executive Director, Peace Programs: peace program activities or overview stories on conflict resolution, elections abroad, democracy, human rights, and economic development

Edmund Cain
Director, Global Development Initiative: development issues and international development organizations, particularly the United Nations

David Carroll, Ph.D.
Interim Director, Democracy Program: election monitoring, election systems, and specific elections worldwide (fluent in Spanish)

Matthew Hodes, J.D., LL.M.
Director, Conflict Resolution Program: conflict resolution methods and options, the root causes of conflicts, the psychological toll on conflict victims, and reconciliation

Jennifer McCoy, Ph.D.
Director, Americas Program: issues related to Latin America and the Caribbean and U.S. policy toward the region-politics, democracy, elections and election systems, corruption, the Summit of the Americas, and free trade (fluent in Spanish)

HEALTH PROGRAMS

Donald Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Executive Director, Health Programs: health program activities, health issues in developing countries, disease eradication, the links between health and peace in developing nations

Norman Borlaug, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant, Agriculture: the Sasakawa-Global 2000 agriculture program, which has trained millions of small-scale farmers in 15 African countries to increase crop production

Thomas Bornemann, Ed.D., M.S.W.
Director, Mental Health Program: mental health policy, refugee mental health, and application of research findings to practice and policy

Joyce P. Murray, Ed.D., R.N., FAAN
Director, Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative: health issues in Ethiopia and other developing countries

Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben, M.D.
Technical Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program, Global 2000: Guinea worm disease, schistosomiasis, and other parasitic and tropical diseases (fluent in Spanish)

Craig Withers, M.B.A., M.H.A
Director of Program Support, Global 2000: health program activities and public health policy and other health issues in Africa, particularly Sudan

James Zingeser, D.V.M., M.P.H.
Senior Epidemiologist, Health Programs Technical Director, Trachoma Control Program: trachoma, Guinea worm disease, and other health issues in developing countries (fluent in French)