Rosalynn Carter Photo Gallery
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Date: 1993
Credit: Rick Diamond
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter worked for more than five decades to improve the quality of life for people around the world. Until her death at age 96 in November 2023, she was a leading advocate for mental health, caregiving, early childhood immunization, human rights, and conflict resolution through her work at The Carter Center in Atlanta. The Center is a private, not-for-profit institution founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the former first lady in 1982.
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Date: 2019
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter speaks at the 24th annual Rosalynn Carter Georgia Mental Health Forum in May 2019 at The Carter Center in Atlanta. The forum, established in 1995, is held each May to address a timely mental health policy issue facing the state.
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Date: 2001
Credit: The Carter Center
In recognition of her tireless fight for mental health and unwavering dedication to improving the lives of others, Rosalynn Carter was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001, becoming only the third first lady ever inducted, joining Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Date: Nov. 8, 2013
Credit: The Carter Center
On Nov. 8, 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left), former First Lady Rosalynn Carter (center), and David Wellstone (right), son of the late Senator Paul Wellstone, celebrated the release of final regulations on mental health parity during the 29th annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy held at The Carter Center in Atlanta.
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Date: July 10, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
On July 10, 2007, Rosalynn Carter testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee in favor of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, calling for mental illnesses to be covered by insurance on par with physical illnesses.
For more than 50 years, Mrs. Carter’s active leadership in the field of mental health helped bring this topic to national prominence as a vital component of overall health and wellness.
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Date: Nov. 8, 2000
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter opens the annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy in November 2000, when she was awarded the Surgeon General’s Medallion for her leadership in the field of mental health.
Mrs. Carter worked for five decades to improve the quality of life for people with mental illnesses. Co-founder of The Carter Center with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Mrs. Carter chaired the Center’s Mental Health Task Force, an advisory body of experts, advocates, and consumers of mental health services that promotes positive change in the mental health field.
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Date: 1994
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter worked for 50 years to improve the quality of life for people around the world. Until her death at age 96 in 2023, she was a leading voice for mental health and human rights through her work at The Carter Center in Atlanta. The Center is a private, not-for-profit institution founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and the former first lady in 1982.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter greets children in Tingoli, Ghana, during a Carter Center visit to see the country’s progress eradicating Guinea worm disease and controlling trachoma, a devastating eye disease. The February 2007 visit was the first stop on a two-week tour to call international attention to health needs among impoverished communities in Ghana, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. Since then, with Carter Center support, Ghana has eliminated Guinea worm disease and eliminated blinding trachoma as a public health problem.
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Date: Feb. 13, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter hugs the youngest daughter of the Hlmenlike family, whose home she and her husband, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, visited during an inspection of Carter Center-assisted river blindness and malaria work in a remote rural area of Ethiopia.
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Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
A young Nigerian girl welcomes former First Lady Rosalynn Carter with flowers during a February 2007 tour of the Carter Center’s health work in Africa. In partnership with the Nigerian government, The Carter Center has been working at the grassroots to improve health in Nigeria for more than 35 years.
The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn. For more than 40 years, The Center has built hope for millions of the world’s poorest people in more than 80 nations.
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Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter greets schoolgirls suffering from schistosomiasis in Nasarawa North, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, on Feb. 15, 2007, as part of a two-week African tour of the Carter Center’s health programs. President Carter and Mrs. Carter visited the community to bring national attention to the importance of the medicine praziquantel and other disease interventions to prevent schistosomiasis in rural and impoverished communities. Today, The Carter Center, in partnership with the Nigerian government, provides health education and approximately 1 million treatments annually for schistosomiasis — the largest initiative for schistosomiasis in Nigeria.
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Date: Oct. 11, 2005
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, organize their observation papers as they prepare for poll closing procedures in Monrovia, Liberia, in October 2005.
Through its Democracy Program, The Carter Center has helped pioneer the field of election observation, monitoring national elections in 40 countries to help deter fraud and reassure voters their votes would count.
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Date: 1999
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter visits Abriendo Puertas, an Annie E. Casey Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children, in Miami.
For more than 50 years, Mrs. Carter’s active leadership in the field of mental health helped bring this topic to national prominence as a vital component of overall health and wellness.
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Date: June 1999
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter observes at an Indonesian polling station in June 1999. Indonesia held its first genuinely democratic legislative elections in a process monitored by The Carter Center. The Center and the National Democratic Institute fielded a 100-member delegation led by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and concluded that the elections were credible and represented the will of the people.
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Date: January 2011
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter observes at a Southern Sudanese polling station in January 2011 during the referendum on Southern Sudan self-determination. The Center’s delegation, led by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and Carter Center President and CEO Dr. John Hardman, deployed more than 100 observers across Sudan and to overseas voting locations to assess the referendum process and observe polling, counting, and tabulation.
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Date: Nov. 8, 2006
Credit: The Carter Center
The late former First Lady Rosalynn Carter addresses participants in the 2006 Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy at The Carter Center in Atlanta.
Until her death at age 96 in 2023, Mrs. Carter worked for five decades to improve the quality of life for people with mental illnesses. Co-founder of The Carter Center with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Mrs. Carter chaired the Center’s Mental Health Task Force, an advisory body of experts, advocates, and consumers of mental health services that promotes positive change in the mental health field.
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Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited children suffering from schistosomiasis during their Feb. 15, 2007, trip to Nasarawa North, Nigeria. The Carters traveled to the community to bring national attention to the country’s need to make disease prevention methods and treatments with the medicine praziquantel more accessible in its rural and impoverished communities.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter wear traditional Ghanaian attire, a gift from the chief of Tingoli village in northern Ghana, where The Carter Center, in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Health, is working to eradicate Guinea worm disease and eliminate trachoma. The Carters visited the village Feb. 8, 2007, as part of a two-week health tour of remote African villages.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
At Savelugu Hospital in Northern Region Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child’s extremely painful Guinea worm wound.
To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, The Carter Center spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, The Carter Center and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.
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