Dennis Carlson, M.A., M.P.H, M.D.

Senior Consultant, Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative

Dr. Dennis Carlson has been involved with Ethiopian health development for more than 40 years. After medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle, he had training in surgery and tropical medicine before beginning work at a mission hospital in rural Ethiopia in 1958.

After further education in public health and anthropology, he served as the dean of the Haile Selassie Public Health College and Training Center in Gondar in northern Ethiopia during the 1960s. After studies in the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University, he joined the Hopkins faculty and taught there for 10 years before returning to Ethiopia, first to work on famine relief and community development, then to teach community health at Addis Ababa University.

Dr. Carlson began collaborating with The Carter Center to develop the Ethiopia Public Health Training Initiative in 1993 and has served as senior consultant on a full-time basis since 1997.