Dr Keith Carter

Keith H. Carter, a native of Guyana, retired in 2016 as Senior Advisor on Malaria and other Tropical Diseases, from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), WHO Regional Office for the Americas based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he provided over 30 years’ service in combatting malaria in the Americas. After receiving training in medicine and tropical medicine in Cuba, Dr Carter completed postgraduate studies in Malariology and Environmental Sanitation in Venezuela and was further specialized in epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in the United States of America. He then began working with PAHO and has coordinated efforts to combat and prevent the re-establishment of malaria in all PAHO member countries. He was instrumental in the establishment of the network on the surveillance of antimalarial drug resistance in the Amazon Basin. He contributed to the successful containment of an outbreak of malaria in Jamaica, where the disease had been previously eliminated. And he has coordinated efforts to eliminate malaria from Paraguay, Argentina and El Salvador.

Dr Carter was a member of the WHO Evidence Review Group on Malaria Elimination from 2015 to 2017 and is a consultant to the Regional Malaria Elimination Initiative led by the Interamerican Development Bank in Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia among others in coordination with the Pan American Health Organization and the Clinton Health Access Initiative.