Health and Healthcare Systems
Will COVID-19 relief plans reach the world’s poorest people?
COVID-19 relief programmes must intentionally include people living in extreme poverty to ensure a resilient and equitable economic recovery post-pandemic.
Joanne Carter has served as Executive Director of RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund (REF) since 2008, working with key Administration and Congressional allies, partner organizations, and technical agencies orchestrating U.S. and international campaigns to tackle major diseases of poverty, increase access to education (including the abolition of school fees), expand economic opportunity for the poorest, and reform World Bank and International Monetary Fund policies.
Joanne is currently vice-chair of the Stop TB Partnership and has also served in a range of board and advisory roles with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Nutrition International, the Partnership for Economic Inclusion, the Global Campaign for Education-U.S., and the Global Financing Facility for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health.
Ms Carter joined RESULTS/REF as Legislative Director in 1992 and was appointed Associate Executive Director in 2007. Previously, she served as a RESULTS volunteer Group Leader and then Regional Coordinator for four years in the New York City area.
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