Laurie Garrett has an interesting biography...but someone at Vaxgen seems to be annoyed in the e-mail quoted at:
ragingbull.lycos.com
"Laurie Garrett is the primary journalist behind the entire "AIDSVAX won't work" media campaign." ....
*** I hope I don't have to tell you that the logic Garrett
endorses here is filled with fallacy...if not fantasy. Even though the study's founder tries to explain to Garrett that her logic is flawed...she cruises right on to a ridiculous conclusion, which of course, if correct, would vilify Don Francis, President of VaxGen.
*** The moral to the story? Please, consider the motives
of the people you read."
Laurie Garrett - Biography
author of
BETRAYAL OF TRUST:
The Collapse of Global Public Health
Laurie Garrett is the only writer ever to have been awarded all three of the Big "Ps" of journalism: The Peabody, The Polk (twice), and The Pulitzer.
Garrett has been honored with two doctorates in humane letters honoris causa, from Weslayan Illinois University and the University of Massachussetts, Lowell.
Garrett is the author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She is a medical and science writer for Newsday, in New York City.
Garrett was born in Los Angeles, a 5th generation Los Angeleno. She graduated with honors in biology from the University of California in Santa Cruz. She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at UC Berkeley and did research at Stanford University in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard Herzenberg. During her PhD studies, Garrett started reporting on science news at KPFA, a local radio station. The hobby soon became far more interesting than graduate school and she took a leave of absence to explore journalism. Garrett never completed her PhD.
At KPFA Garrett worked in management, in news and in radio documentary production. A documentary series she co-produced with Adi Gevins won the 1977 George Foster Peabody Award in Broadcasting, and other KPFA production efforts by Garrett won the Armstrong and CPB Awards.
After leaving KPFA Garrett worked briefly in the California Department of Food and Agriculture assessing the human health impacts of pesticide use. She then went overseas, living and working in southern Europe and subsaharan Africa, freelance reporting for Pacifica Radio, Pacific News Service, BBC-Radio, Reuters, Associated Press and others.
In 1980 Garrett joined National Public Radio, working out of the networkís San Francisco and, later, Los Angeles bureaus as a Science Correspondent. During her NPR years Garrett was awarded by the National Press Club (Best Consumer Journalism, 1982), the San Francisco Media Alliance (Meritorious Achievment Award in Radio, 1983), and the World Hunger Alliance (First Prize, Radio, 1987).
In 1988 Garrett left NPR to join the science writing staff of Newsday, where she remains today.
Her Newsday reporting has earned several awards, including the Newsday Publisherís Award (Best Beat Reporter, 1990), Award of Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists ("AIDS in Africa", 1989), Deadline Club of New York ("Best Beat Reporter", 1993), First Place from the Society of Silurians ("Breast Cancer", 1994), and the Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Club of America ("AIDS in India", 1995).
During the academic year 1992-93 Garrett attended Harvard University as a visiting fellow in the Harvard School of Public Health.
Over the years Garrett has contributed chapters to numerous books, including AIDS IN THE WORLD, edited by Jonathan Mann, Daniel Tarantola and Thomas Netter, Oxford University Press, 1993; and DISEASE IN EVOLUTION: GLOBAL CHANGES AND EMERGENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, Mary E. Wilson, edit., New York Academy of Sciences, 1994.
She has also written for many publications, including Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health. She has appeared frequently on national television programs, including "ABC Nightline", "The Jim Lerher NewsHour", "The Charlie Rose Show", "The Oprah Winfrey Show", "Dateline", "The International Hour" (CNN) and "Talkback" (CNN).
Garrett is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and served as the organization's President during the mid-1990s.
Garrett lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York City.
Garrett's Newday articles can be accessed at Newsday.com.
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Commencement Speech -Bloomberg School of Public Health
John Hopkins University
June 2002
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"The collapse of global public health and why it matters for New York."
Journal of Urban Health, 2001.
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Garrett addresses the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa
July 13, 2000
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Commencement Speech - UC Berkeley School of Public Health
May 12, 2001
and
University of Alabama, Birmigham - School of Public Health
June 8, 2001
and
Hunter College, New York City
June 4, 2001
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Speech to the Democratic Caucus of the U.S. Senate, Nemacolin, PA. April 27, 2001
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Awards and Honors
Front Page Award from the Newswomenís Club of New
York for "Ebola", 1995.
Newsday Publisherís Award, Best Beat Reporter, 1995.
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Special Citation for Outstanding Journalism, 1995.
Alumna of the year, University of California in Santa Cruz,
1996.
Regents Lecturer, University of California, 1996.
The Madeliene Dane Ross Award from the Overseas Press
Club for Best Reporting in Any Media on the Human
Condition, "Ebola", 1996. Times Mirror Journalist of the
Year, 1995.
Winner, 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism,
"Ebola".
Finalist, 1996 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting,
"Ebola".
Presidential Citation, the American Public Health Association,
1996.
Distinguished Achievement Award, Educational Press
Association of America, numerous stories cited, 1996.
Media Health Promotion Award, The County of Los Angeles
Health Services, 1997.
Best Beat Reporter, Long Island Press Club, for coverage of
AIDS, 1997.
The 18th Annual Joseph Mountin Lecturer for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 1997.
Named "Champion of Prevention" by the Centers of Disease
Control and Prevention, 1997.
Named "A Distinguished Leader in the Life Sciences" by the
National Academy of Sciences, and delivered one of five
distinguished lectures at the Academy, 1998.
Named "National Public Health Hero" by the University of
California School of Public Health, 1998.
Recipient of the George C. Polk Award for International
Reporting, "Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health", 1998.
Honorable Mention, Madeline Dane Ross Award of the
Overseas Press Club of America, "Crumbled Empire,
Shattered Health", 1998.
Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Beat reporting, "Crumbled Empire,
Shattered Health", 1998.
Recipient of Special Award for "Crumbled Empire,
Shattered Health", from the Society of the Silurians.
Commencement Speaker, Yale School of Public Health,
1998.
Recipient of the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting,
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing, 2000.
First Place, International Reporting, from the NY Association of Black Journalists for "Orphans of AIDS", 2000.
Public Health Hero Award, New York City Department of Health, 2000.
Newsday Publisher's Award for Outstanding Specialist Reporting, "AIDS in Africa", 2000.
National Book Critics Circle, finalist in the category of General Nonfiction for BETRAYAL OF TRUST, 2000.
George C. Polk Award, Best Book of 2000 for BETRAYAL OF TRUST.
The Madeliene Dane Ross Award for Reporting on the Human Condition for BETRAYAL OF TRUST, given by the Overseas Press Club of America, 2001.
Recipient of honorary doctorate, PhD, University of Massachussetts, Lowell, June 2002.
Named "Journalist of the Year" by the World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Roads, Virginia, 2002.
Commencement Speaker, Bloomberg School of Public Health, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, June 2002.
BETRAYAL OF TRUST was awarded first prize in the 2002 Medical Book Competition of the British Medical Association.
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Garrett is now a frequent lecturer at colleges, universities, public health gatherings and health-related conferences. Public lectures are arranged through The Lavin Agency.
You can contact the Lavin Agency at 800-762-4234, or by email at tgagnon@thelavinagency.com.
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