10 Facts About Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett was born on 1951 and is an American science journalist and author.

Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of works published in Newsday that chronicled the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire.

Laurie Garrett was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1951.

Laurie Garrett was graduated from San Marino High School in 1969.

In 1996, Laurie Garrett was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series of works published in Newsday that chronicled the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire.

Laurie Garrett won another Polk award in 2000 for her book Betrayal of Trust, "a meticulously researched account of health catastrophes occurring in different places simultaneously and amounting to a disaster of global proportions".

In 2004, Laurie Garrett joined the Council on Foreign Relations as the senior fellow of the Global Health Program.

Laurie Garrett has worked on a broad variety of public health issues including SARS, avian flu, tuberculosis, malaria, shipping container clinics, the intersection of HIV and AIDS, and national security.

On June 27,2021, an interview with Laurie Garrett comprised an entire episode of TWiV, This Week in Virology, in which she discussed many facets of the SARS-CoV-2, pandemic, comparisons with earlier epidemics, as well as, prospects for the future of public health.

Laurie Garrett related during the June 2021 TWiV interview that she had been motivated to change to studying science in college by a promise made to her mother, who was dying of cancer.