Laurie Garrett
Columnist and author of award-winning books on public health, including The Coming Plague
Laurie Garrett is an author, speaker and columnist focused on emerging diseases, epidemics, pandemics, drug resistance, bioterrorism, and climate change. She is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer, Ms. Garrett is a featured columnist for Foreign Policy magazine, a frequent contributing writer for The Lancet (among many other outlets), a Science Contributor for MSNBC, and the founder of the Anthropos Initiative, which engages at the nexus of the Anthropocene, climate change and human health. From 2004-2016, she was senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations; she also served as a science advisor on the film “Contagion.” Ms. Garrett’s bestselling books include: The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1994; adapted into a CNN documentary), Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2002) and I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks (2011). Ms. Garrett earned an BS in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at University of California, Berkeley and did immunology research in the Herzenberg Lab of Stanford University. She was a Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, named “Alum of the Year” by the University of California, Santa Cruz, and “Alum of the Decade” by the University of California Board of Regents.
Expertise: Epidemiology, public health, virology and infectious diseases, public policy, communications, media and design