Public-Health on WACN 21 News

Carter Center Marks 30 Years of Mental Health Advocacy at Annual Atlanta Forum

Tue, 19 May 2026 17:00:00 -0400

Editorial Note: This article contains inaccuracies regarding former First Lady Rosalynn Carter’s history of mental health advocacy, ignoring her foundational work during the 1970s and 1980s. It is currently under review by our editorial team.

For three decades, one Atlanta institution has kept mental health at the center of the national policy conversation. This May, the Carter Center gathered clinicians, lawmakers, advocates and patients for its 30th annual Mental Health Forum — a milestone that underscored both how far the movement has come and how much work remains.

Thousands of CDC employees in Atlanta are laid off as part of a sweeping HHS reorganization

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:30:00 -0400

Thousands of employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received termination notices by email Tuesday morning, part of a sweeping U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reorganization that will ultimately eliminate about 2,400 positions at the Atlanta-based agency.

The layoffs are the local front line of a broader 10,000-position reduction across HHS announced last week by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has signaled since his confirmation that the department’s workforce would be substantially restructured.