Peabody- & Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Bestselling Author, Science Writer & Journalist; Premier Authority on Disease Prevention & Pandemics
Laurie Garrett Biography
Laurie Garrett is a world premier authority on disease prevention and pandemics, and a bestselling author. Garrett is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Health Security Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Association for Science Writers. At radio station KPFA in Berkeley, she worked in management, in news, and in radio documentary production. A documentary series she co-produced (with Adi Gevins) won the 1977 Peabody Award in broadcasting. Other KPFA production efforts by Garrett, won the Edwin Howard Armstrong award.
In 1996, Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series of works published in Newsday that chronicled the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire. In 1997, she won a George Polk Award for foreign reporting, for "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health" in Newsday, described as "a series of 25 articles on the public health crisis in the former Soviet Union".[5] She won another Polk award in 2000 for her book Betrayal of Trust, "a meticulously researched account of health catastrophes occurring in different places simultaneously and amounting to a disaster of global proportions".[6]
In 2004, Garrett joined the Council on Foreign Relations as the senior fellow of the Global Health Program. She has worked on a broad variety of public health issues including SARS, avian flu, tuberculosis, malaria, shipping container clinics, the intersection of HIV and AIDS, and national security.
On June 27, 2021, an interview with Garrett comprised an entire episode of TWiV, This Week in Virology,[7] in which she discussed many facets of the SARS-CoV-2, (also known as Covid-19) pandemic, comparisons with earlier epidemics, as well as prospects for the future of public health.
Her first bestselling book, "THE COMING PLAGUE: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance," is still in demand.
In her career, Garrett has tracked 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 her second book, "BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Collapse of Global Public Health."
Garrett's 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 by Amazon as an e-book. It is also available on Kindle and in paperback.
Garrett helped create the Noguchi Africa Prize and numerous times has served as its judge.
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Laurie Garrett Speaking Topics
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Bioterrorism: The Modern Peril
It's a surreal, terrifying thought: terrorists using bio-chemical weapons. Garrett has investigated both the science and the politics behind international bio-terrorism, and, here, provides a responsible, informative assessment of who is capable, what form it might take, and how likely it is to happen.
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Climate Change and Global Health: Ending the Debate
To the timely debate over the impact of climate change on human health, Garrett offers this frank, hopeful talk. The health community, she says, is focusing on how climate change affects the movements of diseases, such as malaria. While these threats are serious, we must also look at how other consequences of climate change are already wreaking havoc on human health: catastrophic weather—resulting in flooding, famine and drought—is infecting and killing thousands; we must turn our attention toward preparedness. Garrett shows you where our efforts—activism, money, policy—need to go, and how urgently they need to get there.
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Laurie Garrett is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as Bioterrorism: The Modern Peril, Climate Change and Global Health: Ending the Debate, Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Healthcare and I Heard The Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks. The estimated speaking fee range to book Laurie Garrett for your event is available upon request. Laurie Garrett generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Seth Berkley, Tiffany Shlain, Ray Kurzweil, Esther Dyson and David Agus. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Laurie Garrett for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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