Background
Garrett, Laurie was born on September 8, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Banning and Lou Ann (Pierose) Garrett.
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This is a study of a full-blown global health crisis in the making. Laurie Garrett takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophies marks the death of public health and taken together form a portrait of real global disaster in the making. She argues that public health is a bond between a government and its people and if either side betrays that trust the system collapses like a house of cards. The book also aims to illustrate how, since 1980, this trust has frayed and our global public health system been systematically destroyed. It contends that, with globalization, no person is safe from antibiotic resistant superbugs, epidemic or biowar. Garrett takes the reader to India, where an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria; to Zaire where the deadly ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital, and to the 15 states of the former Soviet Union have seen the collapse in their public health system. She also explores the increasingly chaotic, ungoverned world of biological terrorism.
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In The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett looks deeply into human impact on the environment and how this could lead to a new danger in the form of deadly viruses.
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From the author of the New York Times bestseller, The Coming Plague, comes an explosive new work on a full-blown global health crisis in the making. Garrett takes readers around the world to reveal how a series of potential and present public health catastrophies mark the death of public health and taken together form a terrifying portrait of real global disaster in the making. Public health is a bond between a government and its people and if either side betrays that trust the system is likely to collapse like a house of cards. Garrett illustrates how over the last twenty years this trust has frayed and our global public health system systematically destroyed. With globalization, no person is safe from anti-biotic resistant 'superbugs', epidemics or biowar. Garrett takes us to India, where an outbreak of bubonic plague created international hysteria. To Zaire where the deadly Ebola virus broke out in a filthy and completely unequipped hospital. The 15 States of the former soviet Union have seen the most astounding collapse in public health in the industrialised world. She also exposes the increasingly chaotic, ungoverned world of biological terrorism, a threat we have yet to fully comprehend. Betrayal of Trust is a monumental achievement and a wake-up call to all those involved in public health. In the aftermath of September 11 her story rings only too true.
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journalist global health scholar
Garrett, Laurie was born on September 8, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Banning and Lou Ann (Pierose) Garrett.
Garrett graduated from San Marino High School in 1969. She then graduated with honors from Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1975. She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at University of California, Berkeley and did research at Stanford University with Leonard Herzenberg.
During her Doctor of Philosophy studies, Garrett started reporting on science news for radio station KPFA.
She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday, chronicling the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire. The hobby soon became far more interesting than graduate school and she took a leave of absence to explore journalism. Garrett never completed her Doctor of Philosophy. At KPFA Garrett worked in management, in news, and in radio documentary production.
In 2004 Garrett joined the Council on Foreign Relations as the Senior Fellow of the Global Health Program.
She has worked on a broad variety of issues including Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, avian flu, tuberculosis, malaria, shipping container clinics, and the intersection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and national security.
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