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Date: 1993
Credit: Rick Diamond
Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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 °®ÒºÊÓƵ in Atlanta. The Center is a private, not-for-profit institution founded by former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ and the former first lady in 1982.
Date: 2019
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Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ speaks at the 24th annual Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ Georgia Mental Health Forum in May 2019 at °®ÒºÊÓƵ in Atlanta. The forum, established in 1995, is held each May to address a timely mental health policy issue facing the state.
Date: 2001
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In recognition of her tireless fight for mental health and unwavering dedication to improving the lives of others, Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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.
Date: Nov. 8, 2013
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On Nov. 8, 2013, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (left), former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ (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 °®ÒºÊÓƵ Symposium on Mental Health Policy held at °®ÒºÊÓƵ in Atlanta.
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Date: July 10, 2007
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On July 10, 2007, Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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. °®ÒºÊÓƵ’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.
Date: Nov. 8, 2000
Credit: °®ÒºÊÓƵ
Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ opens the annual Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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. °®ÒºÊÓƵ worked for five decades to improve the quality of life for people with mental illnesses. Co-founder of °®ÒºÊÓƵ with former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ, Mrs. °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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.
Date: 1994
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Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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 °®ÒºÊÓƵ in Atlanta. The Center is a private, not-for-profit institution founded by former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ and the former first lady in 1982.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
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Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ greets children in Tingoli, Ghana, during a °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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 °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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
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Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ hugs the youngest daughter of the Hlmenlike family, whose home she and her husband, former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ, visited during an inspection of °®ÒºÊÓƵ Center-assisted river blindness and malaria work in a remote rural area of Ethiopia.
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
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A young Nigerian girl welcomes former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ with flowers during a February 2007 tour of the °®ÒºÊÓƵ Center’s health work in Africa. In partnership with the Nigerian government, °®ÒºÊÓƵ has been working at the grassroots to improve health in Nigeria for more than 35 years.
°®ÒºÊÓƵ was founded in 1982 by former President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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.
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
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Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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 °®ÒºÊÓƵ Center’s health programs. President °®ÒºÊÓƵ and Mrs. °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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, °®ÒºÊÓƵ, in partnership with the Nigerian government, provides health education and approximately 1 million treatments annually for schistosomiasis — the largest initiative for schistosomiasis in Nigeria.
Date: Oct. 11, 2005
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Former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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, °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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.
Date: 1999
Credit: °®ÒºÊÓƵ
Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ visits Abriendo Puertas, an Annie E. Casey Mental Health Initiative for Urban Children, in Miami.
For more than 50 years, Mrs. °®ÒºÊÓƵ’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.
Date: June 1999
Credit: °®ÒºÊÓƵ
Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ observes at an Indonesian polling station in June 1999. Indonesia held its first genuinely democratic legislative elections in a process monitored by °®ÒºÊÓƵ. The Center and the National Democratic Institute fielded a 100-member delegation led by former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ and concluded that the elections were credible and represented the will of the people.
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Date: January 2011
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Former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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 °®ÒºÊÓƵ, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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.
Date: Nov. 8, 2006
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The late former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ addresses participants in the 2006 Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ Symposium on Mental Health Policy at °®ÒºÊÓƵ in Atlanta.
Until her death at age 96 in 2023, Mrs. °®ÒºÊÓƵ worked for five decades to improve the quality of life for people with mental illnesses. Co-founder of °®ÒºÊÓƵ with former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ, Mrs. °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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
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Former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ and his wife, Rosalynn, visited children suffering from schistosomiasis during their Feb. 15, 2007, trip to Nasarawa North, Nigeria. The °®ÒºÊÓƵs 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.
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
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Former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ and former First Lady Rosalynn °®ÒºÊÓƵ wear traditional Ghanaian attire, a gift from the chief of Tingoli village in northern Ghana, where °®ÒºÊÓƵ, in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Health, is working to eradicate Guinea worm disease and eliminate trachoma. The °®ÒºÊÓƵs visited the village Feb. 8, 2007, as part of a two-week health tour of remote African villages.
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: °®ÒºÊÓƵ
At Savelugu Hospital in Northern Region Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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, °®ÒºÊÓƵ spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, °®ÒºÊÓƵ 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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