Jane Carter ’74, MD

Following GPS, Dr. Jane Carter earned her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College before attending George Washington University for medical school. She completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary fellowship at Brown University where she then became a member of the faculty. At Brown, Jane launched the first international medical exchange program for Brown with Moi University Medical School in Eldoret, Kenya, at a time when Global Health was not a recognized discipline. During the 29 years she led that program, over 100 Kenyan trainees studied at Brown while over 200 Brown trainees studied in Kenya; this exchange became the model for subsequent international educational collaborations at Brown. An interest that developed during her pulmonary residency years before led her to the Rhode Island tuberculosis clinic, where she spent two-plus decades. She has served on the Advisory Committee for the Elimination of TB at CDC and led the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease. She has also served on the technical review committees of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, TB, and Malaria; of Unitaid, and of TB Reach at the STOP TB Partnership in Geneva. Jane was one of the founding educators to initiate the first pulmonary/critical care training program in Ethiopia, a country of over 120 million people without a single pulmonary physician at the time of the fellowship opening in 2012. She was the 2013 recipient of the World Lung Health award from the American Thoracic Society. Retired from clinical pulmonary practice at Brown in 2023, she continues as an international TB consultant/educator and as a TB staff physician at the Department of Health in Honolulu, Hawaii. An avid runner (starting at GPS as a requirement of the varsity volleyball team), she has completed 28 marathons, including Boston.