Neglected tropical diseases

Dr. Donald R. Hopkins

Dr. Donald R. Hopkins is Vice President (Health) of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He oversees the Center's international health programmes in 10 African and 6 Latin American countries as well as the Carter Center's Mental Health Programme.

He has led the guinea-worm eradication initiative at the Carter center since the late 1980s. Under his leadership, the initiative has made tremendous progress in interrupting transmission of guinea-worm disease, which is now on the verge of eradication.

Dr Hopkins has served as consultant on several committees of the World Health Organization.

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