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Laurie Garrett is a best-selling author, science journalist and the only writer to win all three of the “Big P” journalism awards: Peabody, Polk (twice) and Pulitzer. A senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations since... More
Laurie Garrett is a best-selling author, science journalist and the only writer to win all three of the “Big P” journalism awards: Peabody, Polk (twice) and Pulitzer. A senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations since 2004, Laurie is an expert on global health, with a focus on emerging and re-emerging diseases, how they relate to public health, and their effects on foreign policy and national security. Her books, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health, are considered required reading for anyone interested in getting a grasp on the global health crisis. “We live in a microbial soup,” Laurie reminds us. “Humans have a hard time imagining that they are just one piece of a general ecology. And that, in fact, they are food for literally millions of microbes.”
Laurie Garrett's Presentations
| TED2007 | March 2007 |
Watch videoLaurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu: In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague," gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant than ever. Laurie Garrett on lessons from the 1918 flu: In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of "The Coming Plague," gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant than ever. |
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