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Students in the Out of School Girls Project, instituted by CARE in 2003, attend school in Afghanistan. CARE, an Atlanta-based humanitarian organization, focuses on the education of women as one means toward fulfilling its mission of eradicating global poverty.
Courtesy of CARE, Photograph by Phil Borges.
Clara Chinyama, with her daughter Alinafe, poses at the construction site of her new tea shop in Malawi. The shop is funded through a savings and loan program provided by CARE, an Atlanta-based organization that works with women around the world to overcome poverty, disease, and environmental problems.
Courtesy of CARE, Photograph by Valenda Campbell.
Arthritis Today, a bimonthly magazine produced by the Arthritis Foundation, provides information and support to arthritis patients around the country. Established in 1948 and based in Atlanta, the Arthritis Foundation is the largest voluntary health organization in the United States.
Photograph by Daniel Mayer
Arthritis and Rheumatism is one of two journals published by the American College of Rheumatology. The peer-reviewed monthly features articles on all aspects of rheumatic disease.
The American Cancer Society's nationwide annual fund-raiser, Relay for Life, is held in various locations around Georgia. A voluntary health organization, the society is dedicated to eliminating cancer through research, education, advocacy, and service.
Nearly all the latest discoveries in cancer research began with funding provided by the American Cancer Society. Between 1946 and 2003, the American Cancer Society distributed $2.5 billion to researchers.
Emory University School of Medicine students gain medical experience with bedside teaching. Emory's medical school ranks among the nation's finest institutions for teaching, patient care, and research.
Courtesy of Emory University
The first dean of Atlanta Medical College (later Emory School of Medicine), John Westmoreland pioneered research in yellow fever, cofounded the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal, and helped found Atlanta's first medical society, the Brotherhood of Physicians, responsible for establishing a local medical code of ethics.
William Simpson Elkin was dean of Emory's medical school from 1915 to 1925. Elkin oversaw the medical school's move to Emory's campus in Atlanta's Druid Hills neighborhood in 1917 and the addition of a new hospital facility in 1922.
Robert W. Woodruff became president of both the Trust Company of Georgia and the Coca-Cola Company in 1923 and eventually became the architect of Coke's worldwide expansion. In later years Woodruff was also Emory University's greatest benefactor. In 1937 he established the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, a charitable organization.
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Emory organized medical units in both world wars to care for wounded soldiers behind front lines. Recovery rooms developed during World War II for postoperative patients were so successful that they were brought home for civilian use after the war was over.
