Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett is a leading science writer and one of the most prominent voices internationally on global health, disease prevention, infectious diseases, re-emerging and emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika, and the intersection of public health and national security issues. Over the years, Laurie’s work has been widely recognized as knowledge-based journalism. She is well-respected for her ability to communicate public health threats and her investigative journalist skills that have shed light on gaps in public health policy and practice during public health disease response efforts. Laurie Garrett wrote her first bestselling book, THE COMING PLAGUE: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, while splitting her time between the Harvard School of Public Health and the New York newspaper, Newsday. During the 1990s, Garrett continued tracking outbreaks and epidemics worldwide, noting the insufficient responses from global public health institutions in Zaire, India, Russia and most of the former USSR, Eastern Europe, and the United States. This resulted in publication in 2000 of BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Collapse of Global Public Health. In 2004, Laurie Garrett left Newsday to join the think tank staff of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where she ran the Global Health Program and served as the Senior Fellow for Global Health. In Summer 2011, Garrett’s long-awaited third book, I HEARD THE SIRENS SCREAM: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks, was published in time for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11. She is the only writer who has been awarded the Pulitzer, the Polk, and the Peabody prizes.