Laurie Garrett
One of the most highly renowned science journalists in the United States, Laurie Garrett is the only person ever to be awarded all three of the major prizes in journalism: the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer (for which she has also been a finalist three times.) Following an early radio broadcasting career in California, Garrett moved overseas, working as a freelance reporter in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Europe. She then spent eight years as a science reporter for NPR, where she garnered numerous awards for her journalistic excellence. Garrett began her current position on the science writing staff of Newsday. In early 2004, the Council on Foreign Relations named her the first Gates Science Fellow in Global Health, a new fellowship created by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in recognition of the increasingly important role that global health issues pose to national security.
In addition to her many radio documentaries, magazine and newspaper articles, and book chapters, Garrett is the author of two books, the best-selling investigation of public health:
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and
The Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Public Health.
Garrett holds two honorary doctorates, one from Wesleyan Illinois University and the other from University of Massachusetts, Lowell. A native Los Angeleno, she graduated with honors in biology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. During her PhD studies in Bacteriology and Immunology at UC Berkeley and Stanford University, Garrett began reporting on science news, a hobby that evolved into her illustrious career in science journalism.
For more information on Laurie Garrett, please visit her web site,
www.lauriegarrett.com
