Dartmouth Events

Who is in charge of global health? Bracing for chaos. 

Tuesday, April 19^th   |  4:30pm   |  Filene Auditorium, Moore Building   |   Free and open to all.

Since 2004, Laurie Garrett has been a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. Ms. Garrett is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. Her expertise includes global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism.

Ms. Garrett is the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994); Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion Press, 2000); I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks (Amazon Books, 2011); and the e-book EBOLA: Story of an Outbreak (Hachette, 2014).

In 1980, she joined National Public Radio, working as the network’s Science Correspondent. During her NPR years, Ms. Garrett received outstanding achievement awards from the National Press Club, San Francisco Media Alliance and World Hunger Alliance.

In 1988, Garrett left NPR to join the science and foreign desks of Newsday.  Garrett was three times a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Journalism, and received the Pulitzer in 1996 for her coverage of the 1995 Ebola epidemic in Kikwit, Zaire.

Among her most recent awards for her global health work executed while at the Council on Foreign Relations are the 2014 NYU School of Medicine “Outstanding Contributions to Global Health,” and the 2015 Internationalism Award from the American Women for International Understanding.

Garrett has been awarded three honorary PhDs, honoris causa, from Wesleyan University (Illinois), University of Massachusetts (Lowell) and Georgetown University.

Sponsored by the Global Health Initiative at the Dickey Center for International Understanding.