Some journalism highlights: My 3,500-word story from DRCongo was front of @nytimes @nytimesbusiness. It's about Virunga Natl Park @gorillacd & potential of small hydropower, energy & jobs to reduce poverty and conserve environment & wildlife #Africa #Tbt .

By 2013, the program had trained 20,000 skilled birth attendants in Bangladesh alone, giving newborns like the one I met a chance to live. Now ~5,200 of USAID’s 6,200 programs have been eliminated. Typically less than 1% of the U.S. federal budget funded those programs. ".

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She learned to use a tiny plastic face mask, air bag and suction device through a program called Helping Babies Breathe. It was an international collaboration with USAID, @SavetheChildren, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Laerdal Foundation of Norway and others.

Now the mother, “loves me very much,” said Akhter. A year before, Akhter was trained to treat neonatal asphyxia, then one of the largest killers of newborns in Bangladesh.

Would I like to meet the mother and baby, Akhter asked. “Yes!” I replied. We walked for more than a mile across rice fields to a cluster of homes with corrugated metal walls. The mother appeared holding her baby and smiled at the health worker.

In a village 2 hours from Dhaka, I visited a 1-room clinic. Shefali Akhter, a 24-year-old health assistant vaccinating children, mentioned she had saved a newborn’s life through techniques she had recently learned: clearing mucus from babies’ airways, so they wouldn’t asphyxiate.

My @suntimes OpEd: In a village in Bangladesh I met a 6-month old baby who literally would have died if not for the health worker trained through a USAID-supported program. Wiping out almost all of #USAID means more people - like an innocent baby - will die.

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Through the @CarterCenter , countless lives have been saved and incalculable suffering ended. Carter will be laid to rest in a state funeral in Washington, D.C. on Jan 9. But his mission and impact lives on in far corners of the world.

“We believe access to health care is a human right, especially among poor people afflicted with disease who are forgotten, ignored and often without hope,” Carter said.

About 25 #neglectedtropicaldiseases affect a staggering 1 billion people worldwide, says @WHO. Through his foundation, Carter helped end neglected tropical diseases suffered by grossly neglected people.

My memory of Carter: he was brilliant, warm, articulate, caring. He was sparkly and energetic, even at age 83 after a flight halfway across the world. In a photo I took on my digital Kodak camera, Carter looked radiant. I looked tired and I regretted I had not washed my hair. .

Here's @TheLancet article: "All morning, a stream of people walked over rough dirt roads to a health clinic tucked next to a corn field. Frail elderly women wrapped in saris walked barefoot for hours to reach the four-room clinic. ".

My @Suntimes OpEd on interviewing #JimmyCarter when @CarterCenter was monitoring Nepal's 1st democratic elections. I returned to write about trachoma, a horrific eye disease. @CarterCenter's work on neglected tropical diseases have saved countless lives.

"When I started this book, I did not realize just how relevant, timely and timeless the stories of Tibetan refugees and exiles would be. ".

. since conflicts are raging around the world, unfortunately. Yet it is hard to go beyond statistics and difficult to get an in-depth look at how people re-settle, re-build and re-invent their lives. .

Here's a recent interview I did with @TibetCollective . "Issues about immigrants, refugees and forced migration make headlines every day. How displaced people resettle and preserve their identity while adapting to new cultures is very topical these days.