Laurie Garrett
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| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Los Angeles,California,U.S. |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Santa Cruz(BS) |
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Laurie Garrett(born 1951) is an American science journalist and author. She was awarded thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalismin 1996 for a series of works published inNewsdaythat chronicled theEbola virusoutbreak inZaire.[1]
Biography
[edit]Laurie Garrett was born inLos Angeles,California,in 1951.[2]She was graduated fromSan Marino High Schoolin 1969.[3]She earned aB.S.degree inbiologywith honors fromMerrill Collegeat theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz,in 1975.[3][4]Garrett enrolled in aPh.D.program in the department ofbacteriologyandimmunologyat theUniversity of California, Berkeley,but abandoned her studies to be a journalist.
Professional career
[edit]AtKPFA,she worked in management, in news, and in radio documentary production. A documentary series she co-produced (withAdi Gevins) won the 1977Peabody Awardin broadcasting. Other KPFA production efforts by Garrett, won theEdwin Howard Armstrong award.
In 1996, Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series of works published inNewsdaythat chronicled theEbola virusoutbreak inZaire.In 1997, she won aGeorge Polk Awardfor foreign reporting, for "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health" inNewsday,described as "a series of 25 articles on the public health crisis in the formerSoviet Union".[5]She won another Polk award in 2000 for her bookBetrayal 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 theCouncil on Foreign Relationsas the senior fellow of the Global Health Program. She has worked on a broad variety ofpublic healthissues includingSARS,avian flu,tuberculosis,malaria,shipping container clinics,the intersection ofHIVandAIDS,and national security.
On June 27, 2021, an interview with Garrett comprised an entire episode ofTWiV,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
[edit]Garrett lives in theBrooklyn Heightsneighborhood ofNew 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
[edit]- Laurie Garrett(1994).The Coming Plague: newly emerging diseases in a world out of balance.Farrar, Straus and Giroux.ISBN978-0-374-12646-9.WikidataQ116771973..
- Garrett, Laurie (2003).Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health.Oxford University Press.ISBN9780198526834.RetrievedNovember 24,2020.
- Garrett, Laurie (January–February 2005)."The Nightmare of Bioterrorism".Foreign Affairs(January/February 2001).RetrievedNovember 24,2020.
- Garrett, Laurie (July–August 2005)."The Next Pandemic?".Foreign Affairs.84(4): 3–23.doi:10.2307/20034417.JSTOR20034417.RetrievedNovember 24,2020.
- Garrett, Laurie (2012).I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks.CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.ISBN9781469910109.RetrievedNovember 24,2020.
- Garrett, Laurie (September–October 2015)."Ebola's Lessons How the WHO Mishandled the Crisis".Foreign Affairs(September/October 2015).RetrievedNovember 24,2020.
- Garrett, Laurie (January 31, 2020)."Trump Has Sabotaged America's Coronavirus Response".Foreign Policy.RetrievedNovember 24,2020.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"1996 Pulitzer Prize Winners, Explanatory Journalism".Pulitzer.org.RetrievedNovember 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...
- ^ab"CV: Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health"(PDF).cfr.org.Council on Foreign Relations.RetrievedOctober 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 fromthe originalon April 2, 2012.RetrievedSeptember 11,2011.
- ^"Long Island University Announces Winners of 2000 George Polk Awards"(Press release). Long Island University. February 1, 2001.RetrievedSeptember 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.RetrievedMay 3,2020.
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- Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism winners
- University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
- 1951 births
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