Currently the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Laurie Garrett is the author of the best-selling books The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. These books, which explore key developments in global health and disease prevention, have both received widespread critical and popular acclaim.Garrett is the only person ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: The Peabody, The Polk (twice), and The Pulitzer. She has written for many publications, including Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health. She appears frequently on national television programs, including ABC Nightline, The Jim Lehrer NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and Dateline. Over the years, Laurie Garrett has also contributed chapters to numerous books covering world crises in infectious diseases. Her website is a great source of information on her books, articles, media appearances, and includes bonus materials not available anywhere else. A mesmerizing speaker, Garrett has the unique ability to make plain the science behind new threats to public health -- both natural and man-made -- and the political background that shapes the debate on this issue in America and around the world.

Laurie Garrett is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and served as the organization's President during the mid-1990s. She lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York City.

Laurie Garrett has travelled the world to report and research the spread of some of the most deadly viruses in existence. The only person to have won all of the top three awards in American journalism, including the Pulitzer Prize, she is a dynamic speaker who incorporates lecture, slides and video for a truly captivating and informative multi-media presentation. Drawing on her best-selling book, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health, Garrett takes the audience on a fascinating journey into the reality of healthcare in the United States, Western Europe, Russia and Africa. Audiences leave the presentation with a deeper appreciation of both the challenges and the opportunities of delivering quality healthcare to the global village.

In this timely talk, Laurie Garrett tackles the debate surrounding the impact of climate change on human health. The health community, she says, is currently focusing, to a large extent, on how the changing climate affects the movements of insects that carry diseases such as malaria, and Yellow Fever; these threats are a serious matter. However, we must also look at how other consequences of climate change are already wrecking havoc on human health: flooding, famine, drought, UV radiation-induced melanoma, and traumas suffered in catastrophic weather events are injuring, sickening and killing thousands. With progress on climate change moving slowly, Garrett implores us to turn our attention toward preparedness. (For example, as sea levels rise, many Pacific Islanders face mass relocation because much of where they live is no more than 20 feet above sea level.) In the age of global warming, Garrett's frank but ultimately hopeful talk is a call to action, giving audiences a clear understanding of where our collective efforts?activism, money, government policy?need to go, and just how urgently they need to get there.

It is a thought both surreal and terrifying: the use of bio-chemical weapons by international terrorists. Is it possible? If so, who is capable of making it happen, and what form might the terror take? Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Laurie Garrett offers valuable insights into this new threat. Author of the best-selling books, The Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust, she has investigated both the science, and the politics, behind international bio-terrorism, and provides a responsible and informative assessment of this frightening possibility.