American science journalist and author (born 1951)
Laurie Garrett (born 1951) is an American science journalist and author. She was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in
Newsday that chronicled the
Ebola virus outbreak in
Zaire .
[1]
Biography
Laurie Garrett was born in
Los Angeles ,
California , in 1951.
[2] She was graduated from
San Marino High School in 1969.
[3] She earned a
B.S. degree in
biology with honors from
Merrill College at the
University of California, Santa Cruz , in 1975.
[3]
[4] Garrett enrolled in a
Ph.D. program in the department of
bacteriology and
immunology at the
University of California, Berkeley , but abandoned her studies to be a journalist.
Professional career
At
KPFA , 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.
Personal
Garrett lives in the
Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of
New York City .
[8] She related during the June 2021 TWiV interview that she had been motivated to change to studying science in college by a promise made to her mother, who was dying of cancer.
Selected works
Laurie Garrett (1994). The Coming Plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance .
Farrar, Straus and Giroux .
ISBN
978-0-374-12646-9 .
Wikidata
Q116771973 . .
Garrett, Laurie (2003).
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health . Oxford University Press.
ISBN
9780198526834 . Retrieved November 24, 2020 .
Garrett, Laurie (January–February 2005).
"The Nightmare of Bioterrorism" . Foreign Affairs (January/February 2001). Retrieved November 24, 2020 .
Garrett, Laurie (July–August 2005).
"The Next Pandemic?" . Foreign Affairs . 84 (4): 3–23.
doi :
10.2307/20034417 .
JSTOR
20034417 . Retrieved November 24, 2020 .
Garrett, Laurie (2012).
I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
ISBN
9781469910109 . Retrieved November 24, 2020 .
Garrett, Laurie (September–October 2015).
"Ebola's Lessons How the WHO Mishandled the Crisis" . Foreign Affairs (September/October 2015). Retrieved November 24, 2020 .
Garrett, Laurie (January 31, 2020).
"Trump Has Sabotaged America's Coronavirus Response" . Foreign Policy . Retrieved November 24, 2020 .
See also
References
^
"1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Explanatory Journalism" . Pulitzer.org . Retrieved November 2, 2008 .
^ Sherman, Scott (August 21, 2000).
"Laurie Garrett: Coming Plague, Current Crisis" .
Publishers Weekly . Born in Los Angeles in 1951... Garrett, a youthful, intensely serious woman of 49...
^
a
b
"CV: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health" (PDF) . cfr.org .
Council on Foreign Relations . Retrieved October 10, 2014 .
^
"Pulitzer Prize Winner is a Graduate of UC Santa Cruz" (Press release).
UC Santa Cruz . April 9, 1996.
^
The George Polk Awards (1997).
"1997 George Polk Award Winners at a Glance" . The George Polk Awards .
Long Island University . Archived from
the original on April 2, 2012. Retrieved September 11, 2011 .
^
"Long Island University Announces Winners of 2000 George Polk Awards" (Press release). Long Island University. February 1, 2001. Retrieved September 11, 2011 .
^
TWiV 773: Laurie Garrett, pandemic prophet ,
TWiV , June 27, 2021
^
Bruni, Frank (May 2, 2020).
"She Predicted the Coronavirus. What Does She Foresee Next?" . The New York Times . Retrieved May 3, 2020 .
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