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Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health Council on Foreign Relations 58 East 68Th Street New York, NY 10065 Direct: 212-434-9794 Lgarrett@Cfr.Org Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health Council on Foreign Relations 58 East 68th Street New York, NY 10065 Direct: 212-434-9794 [email protected] As a medical and science writer for Newsday in New York City, Laurie Garrett became the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the big “Ps” of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk (twice), and the Pulitzer. Laurie is also the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. In March2004, Laurie took the position of Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is an expert on global health with a particular focus on newly emerging and re-emerging diseases; public health and their effects on foreign policy and national security. Garrett has been honored with three doctorates in human letters honoris causa from Wesleyan Illinois University, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, and Georgetown University. Garrett was born in Los Angeles, a fifth generation Los Angeleno. She attended public schools in the San Marino School District, graduating in 1969 from San Marino High School. She graduated with honors in biology from the University of California in Santa Cruz (1975). She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at UC Berkeley and did research at Stanford University in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard Herzenberg (1975-77). As a graduate student Garrett was awarded a full NIH fellowship. During her PhD studies, Garrett started reporting on science news at KPFA, a local radio station. The hobby soon became far more interesting than graduate school and she took a leave of absence in 1977 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 George Foster Peabody Award in Broadcasting, and other KPFA production efforts by Garrett won the Armstrong and CPB Awards. After leaving KPFA, Garrett worked briefly in the California Department of Food and Agriculture assessing the human health impacts of pesticide use (1978), co-authoring a three volume environmental assessment report. She then went overseas, living and working in southern Europe and sub-Saharan Africa, freelance reporting for Pacifica Radio, Pacific News Service, BBC-Radio, Reuters, Associated Press and others (1979- 80). In 1980 Garrett joined National Public Radio, working out of the network’s San Francisco and, later, Los Angeles bureaus as a science correspondent. During her NPR years (1980-88) Garrett was awarded by the National Press Club (Best Consumer Journalism, 1982), the San Francisco Media Alliance (Meritorious Achievement Award in Radio, 1983), and the World Hunger Alliance (First Prize, Radio, 1987). Updated April 20, 2015 1 of 26 In 1988 Garrett left NPR to join the science writing staff of Newsday, where she remained until March 2004. Her Newsday reporting earned several awards, including the Newsday Publisher’s Award (Best Beat Reporter, 1990), Award of Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists ("AIDS in Africa,” 1989), Deadline Club of New York ("Best Beat Reporter,” 1993), First Place from the Society of Silurians ("Breast Cancer,” 1994), and the Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Club of America ("AIDS in India,” 1994). During the academic year 1992-93 Garrett attended Harvard University as a visiting fellow in the Harvard School of Public Health. Garrett has served on the faculties of several universities, as a visiting professor, including: Designed and taught for two years a course, “Female Physiology and Gynecology” at UC Santa Cruz (1972-73): Course remains in the university curriculum today. University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, Fall Semester, 1997 Columbia University, School of Journalism, David Laventhol Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fall 2001 Over the years, Garrett has contributed chapters to numerous books, including AIDS in the World, edited by Jonathan Mann, Daniel Tarantola and Thomas Netter, Oxford University Press, 1993; and Disease in Evolution: Global Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases, Mary E. Wilson, edit., New York Academy of Sciences, 1994. She has also written for many publications, including Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health. She has appeared frequently on national television programs, including ABC Nightline, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the Charlie Rose Show, the Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline, the International Hour on CNN, and Talkback. Garrett is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and served as the organization's President during the mid-1990s. Garrett is a member of the Overseas Press Club of America, and served on the organization’s Executive Board from 2002-2006. Garrett has been a member of the judging panel for the Albert and Louise Lasker Public Service Award since 2001, ongoing. She currently serves on the advisory board for the Hideyo Noguchi Prize, François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights and the Health Worker Global Policy Advisory Group, and she is a principal in the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN). Laurie Garrett lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York City. Awards and Honors (Partial) George Foster Peabody Award for “Science Story,” aired on KPFA, 1977. The Major Award of the Edwin Howard Armstrong Broadcast Awards, “Hard Rain: Pests, Pesticides and Peoples,” 1978. National Press Club, Best Consumer Journalism, 1982. San Francisco Media Alliance, Meritorious Achievement Award in Radio, 1983. Updated April 20, 2015 2 of 26 World Hunger Alliance, First Prize, Radio, 1987. J.C. Penney-Missouri Journalism Certificate of Merit, for “AIDS in Africa,” 1987. Second Place, Award of Excellence National Association of Black Journalists, for “AIDS in Africa,” 1989. Newsday Publisher’s Award, Best Beat Reporter, 1990. Best Beat Reporter, Deadline Club of New York, 1993. First Place, NY State AP Writing Contest, “Breast Cancer,” 1994. First Place, Health and Science Reporting, Society of Silurians, for “Breast Cancer,” 1994. Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Club of America, “AIDS in India,” 1994. Top Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, The Coming Plague, 1995. Front Page Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York for "Ebola,” 1995. Newsday Publisher’s Award, Best Beat Reporter, 1995. Times Mirror Journalist of the Year, 1995. American Association for the Advancement of Science Special Citation for Outstanding Journalism, 1995. Received the Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Communication from the American Medical Writers Association for The Coming Plague, 1995. Alumna of the year, University of California in Santa Cruz, 1996. Front Page Award, Newswomen’s Club of New York, 1996. Regents Lecturer, University of California, 1996. The Madeliene Dane Ross Award from the Overseas Press Club for Best Reporting in Any Media on the Human Condition, “Ebola,” 1995. Winner, 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, "Ebola". Finalist, 1996 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, "Ebola". Presidential Citation, the American Public Health Association, 1996. Distinguished Achievement Award, Educational Press Association of America, numerous stories cited, 1996. Media Health Promotion Award, the County of Los Angeles Health Services, 1997. Best Beat Reporter, Long Island Press Club, for coverage of AIDS, 1997. The 18th Annual Joseph Mountin Lecturer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1997. Named "Champion of Prevention" by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 1997. Named "A Distinguished Leader in the Life Sciences" by the National Academy of Sciences, and delivered one of five distinguished lectures at the Academy, 1998. Named “National Public Health Hero” by the University of California School of Public Health, 1998. Recipient of the George C. Polk Award for International Reporting, Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health,” 1998. Honorable Mention, Madeline Dane Ross Award of the Overseas Press Club of America, "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health,” 1998. Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Beat reporting, "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health,” 1998. Recipient of Special Award for "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health,” from the Society of the Silurians. Commencement Speaker, Yale School of Public Health, 1998. Updated April 20, 2015 3 of 26 Recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, 2000. First Place, International Reporting, from the NY Association of Black Journalists for "Orphans of AIDS,” 2000. Public Health Hero Award, New York City Department of Health, 2000. Newswomen’s Club of New York, In-Depth Reporting Award for “The Orphans of AIDS,” Newsday, 2000. Newsday Publisher's Award for Outstanding Specialist Reporting, “AIDS in Africa,” 2000. National Book Critics Circle, finalist in the category of General Non-fiction for Betrayal of Trust, 2000. George C. Polk Award, Best Book of 2000 for Betrayal of Trust. The Madeliene Dane Ross Award for Reporting on the Human Condition for Betrayal of Trust, given by the Overseas Press Club of America, 2001. Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, New York Public Library, Finalist, 2001 for Betrayal of Trust. Recipient of honorary doctorate,
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