Laurie Garrett
Laurie Garrett (born in Los Angeles, California) is a Pulitzer prize-winning science journalist and writer of two bestselling books. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday, chronicling the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire.[1]
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[edit] Biographical information
Garrett graduated with honors in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at University of California, Berkeley and did research at Stanford University with Leonard Herzenberg. During her PhD studies, Garrett started reporting on science news for radio station KPFA. The hobby soon became far more interesting than graduate school and she took a leave of absence to explore journalism. Garrett never completed her PhD. At KPFA Garrett 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, and other KPFA production efforts by Garrett won the Edwin Howard Armstrong award. She won a George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 1997 for "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health" in Newsday, "a series of 25 articles on the public health crisis in the former Soviet Union."[2] 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."[3]
Garrett is currently the Senior Fellow of the Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has worked on a broad variety of issues including SARS, avian flu, tuberculosis, malaria, shipping container clinics, and the intersection of HIV/AIDS and national security.
[edit] Books
Laurie Garrett is the author of the following books:
- The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Penguin; 1995) ISBN 0-1402-5091-3
- discusses the vulnerability of the world to disease due to the lack of attention and funding given to health.
- Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion; 2001) ISBN 0-7868-8440-1
- I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks (Amazon.com Kindle e-book; 2011)
[edit] References
- ^ "1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Explanatory Journalism". http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/1996,Explanatory+Journalism. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
- ^ The George Polk Awards (1997). "1997 George Polk Award Winners at a Glance". The George Polk Awards. Long Island University. http://www2.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/prev/prev97.html. Retrieved Sep 11, 2011.
- ^ "LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2000 GEORGE POLK AWARDS" (Press release). Long Island University. Feb 1, 2001. http://www.liu.edu/About/News/Univ-Ctr-PR/Pre-2008/February/GP-Press-Release-Feb-2001.aspx. Retrieved Sep 11, 2011.
[edit] External links
- Laurie Garrett's Web site
- Interviews with Laurie Garett on bigthink.com, June 2009
- Laurie A. Garrett at Council on Foreign Relations
- Laurie Garrett on TED; includes a video of her.
- [1] 1997 Newsday articles by Garrett
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