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For nearly 30 years, the mission of The Carter Center, the US-based nonprofit nongovernmental organization founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, has been to prevent and resolve conflicts, advance freedom and democracy, and improve health. To date, the Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 70 countries, and counts among its many accomplishments leading a coalition that has reduced incidence of Guinea worm disease from an estimated 3.5 million cases in 1986 to fewer than 1,800 today, making it likely to be the first disease since smallpox to be eradicated. In China, the Center has worked to continue the legacy that President Carter and Deng Xiaoping began when they made the decision to establish diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the United States in 1978. The normalization, together with Deng’s domestic reform, constituted the beginning of China’s phenomenal economic growth and political transformation. Since leaving the White House in 1981, at the invitation of successive generations of top Chinese leaders, President Carter has visited China numerous times. The Carter Center continues to engage multiple stakeholders in China in the effort to reduce misperceptions and improve the bilateral relationship between China and the United States. Join us as Dr. John Hardman, President and CEO of The Carter Center, speaks on the Center’s history, its current work throughout the world, and its future as an organization dedicated, in the words of Jimmy Carter, to “helping people achieve better opportunities and watching hope take root where it languished before.”  John Hardman, M.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Carter Center
As president and CEO, Dr. Hardman provides leadership to achieve the Carter Center's commitment to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health. He is an active participant in the Carter Center's program initiatives, including election monitoring in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Ethiopian public health training, global development strategies and conflict resolution efforts, and agriculture programs aimed at improving food production in Africa and North Korea.
Dr. Hardman first served the Center in 1989, when he headed the Initiative to Reduce Global Tobacco Use and was the Center's representative to the World Health Organization's Tobacco and Health Program in 1990. Dr. Hardman directed the Center's Mental Health Program from 1991-1993, became associate executive director in February 1992, and was appointed executive director in December 1992. Hardman has held faculty appointments in psychiatry and pediatrics at Emory University Medical School and was medical director of Peachford Hospital. He has also held prominent positions with professional and community organizations, including serving as president of the Georgia Psychiatric Physicians Association, president of the Georgia Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, president and chairman of Leadership Georgia, and president and chairman of the Atlanta Historical Society. He has served as a director of the National Association of Private Psychiatric Hospitals, as a member of the board of The High Museum of Art, as a member of the Atlanta Area Council Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America, and on the Mayo Medical Alumni Association Board. He currently is chairman of the boards of the Ships of the Sea Museum and the Beehive Foundation, and serves on the boards of the International Fertilizer Development Center and the Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Hardman received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia, received his training in psychiatry as a resident at the Mayo Clinic from 1969-71, and completed a child psychiatry fellowship at Emory University from 1971-73.
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