Donald R. Hopkins

Donald R. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H., "is associate executive director for health programs at The Carter Center, a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization based in Atlanta, GA. He is responsible for leading public health efforts such as the Center's worldwide Guinea worm eradication initiative and its efforts to fight river blindness and trachoma in Africa and Latin America.  Formerly, he served for 20 years at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  He is the author of The Greatest Killer: Smallpox in History.“


 * Director, MacArthur Foundation