Laurie Garrett

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Authority on Global Health and Disease Prevention

Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Healthcare

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Laurie Garrett is one of America's most eloquent and forceful speakers on global healthcare, infectious disease, and disease prevention. The only person to win the three "P"s of journalism -- the Pulitzer, the Polk and the Peabody -- Garrett makes plain the science behind new threats to public health, both natural and man-made. She is particularly adept at navigating the politics that help, and hinder, how we prepare, how we treat and how we respond to these threats.

A Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Garrett is the bestselling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She has written for Foreign Affairs, Esquire, and The Washington Post, and appears frequently on television shows, such as Nightline, Charlie Rose and Oprah. Garrett is a former president and now a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and has been awarded three honorary phDs, the latest, in 2009, from Georgetown University.

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Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Healthcare

Based on her international travels to report on and research healthcare, Garrett delivers a sweeping, multimedia talk that uncovers the reality of healthcare in the United States, Europe, Russia and Africa -- providing a new understanding of both the challenges and the opportunities of delivering quality healthcare to the global village.

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 wrecking havoc on human health: catastrophic weather, resulting in flooding, famine and drought, is making sick 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.

Bioterrorism: The Modern Peril

It's a thought 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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LaurieGarrett.com

BOOKS

The Coming Plague

Betrayal of Trust

ARTICLES

"When is a Pandemic Not A Pandemic?" - The New York Times

"The Path of a Pandemic" - Newsweek cover story on H1N1 Virus

"The Challenge of Global Health" - Foreign Affaris

"Cutting Through China's Smoke" - Los Angeles Times

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