The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative, The Department of History, The
Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School
of Public Health, and the Columbia University Global Strategy Seminar
present:
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign
Relations, on "The Future of Global Health."
Introduction by Stephen Morse, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at
the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and Director
of the USAID PREDICT Program
Thursday, June 30, 2011
6:00 pm - 7:30 p.m.
Columbia University Faculty House
64 Morningside Drive
New York, New York
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Advance
registration is necessary via the Columbia Calendar at
http://calendar.columbia.edu/ or via email at
globalstraegy@columbia.edu. For more information, visit
http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu or email globalstrategy@columbia.edu.
Laurie Garrett has been a senior fellow for global health at the
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York since 2004. 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) and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public
Health (Hyperion Press, 2000). Over the years, she has also
contributed chapters to numerous books, including AIDS in the World
(Oxford University Press, 1993), edited by Jonathan Mann, Daniel
Tarantola, and Thomas Netter, and Disease in Evolution: Global
Changes and Emergence of Infectious Diseases (New York Academy of
Sciences, 1994), edited by Mary E. Wilson.
She graduated with honors in biology from the University of
California, Santa Cruz. She attended graduate school in the Department
of Bacteriology and Immunology at University of California, Berkeley,
and did laboratory research at Stanford University with Dr. Leonard
Herzenberg. During her PhD studies, she 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. At KPFA, Ms. Garrett worked on a documentary,
coproduced with Adi Gevins, that won the 1977 George Foster Peabody
Award.
After leaving KPFA, Ms. 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 sub-Saharan Africa, freelance reporting for
Pacifica Radio, Pacific News Service, BBC Radio, Reuters, Associated
Press, and others. In 1980, she joined National Public Radio, working
out of the network's San Francisco and, later, Los Angeles bureaus as
a science correspondent. During her NPR years, Ms. Garrett received
awards from the National Press Club (Best Consumer Journalism, 1982),
the San Francisco Media Alliance (Meritorious Achievement Award in
Radio, 1983), and the World Hunger Alliance (First Prize, Radio, 1987).
In 1988, Ms. Garrett left NPR to join the science writing staff of
Newsday. Her Newsday reporting has earned several awards, including
the Newsday Publisher's Award (Best Beat Reporter, 1990), Award of
Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists (for
"AIDS in Africa," 1989), Deadline Club of New York (Best Beat
Reporter, 1993), First Place from the Society of Silurians (for
"Breast Cancer," 1994), and the Bob Considine Award of the Overseas
Press Club of America (for "AIDS in India," 1995). 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's Nightline, The NewsHour with Jim
Lehrer, The Charlie Rose Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dateline, The
International Hour (CNN), and Talkback (CNN).
Ms. Garrett is a member of the National Association of Science Writers
and served as the organization's president during the mid-1990s. She
lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York.
The Hertog Global Strategy Initiative is a research program in the
Department of History that employs historical analysis to confront
present and future problems in world politics. Each summer, invited
experts and select students gather at Columbia University for twelve
weeks of intensive study, independent research, and collaborative
writing on a critical issue in international affairs. The 2011 topic
is: "The History and Future of Pandemic Threats and Global Public
Health." Students in the program spend the first two weeks of the
summer in an intensive seminar and the following eight weeks
conducting independent and group research projects. In August, the
class reconvenes and participants present their research and
participate in group exercises. The program demonstrates the potential
for collaborative historical research on key problems in world
politics. The 2011 program is being co-taught by Matthew Connelly,
Professor of History at Columbia University, and Stephen Morse,
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at Columbia's Mailman School of
Public Health. The program has been made possible by a gift from the
Hertog Foundation. For more information, visit
http://globalstrategy.columbia.edu.
The Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health is a group in
Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health?s Department of
Sociomedical Sciences where students and faculty rely on historical
methods and ethical analysis to investigate critical and complex
public health issues. The idea behind the Center's research and
teaching activities is to confront the challenges facing public health
by understanding their ethical dimensions and political, social,
cultural, and economic roots. At the Center,
ethical questions inspire historical research, which in turn helps
reframe contemporary choices and policy options. In addition to
undertaking historical inquiry, the Center has been vital in
developing the field of public health ethics. While bioethics has
stressed the importance of protecting individual patients and research
subjects, public health ethics has made protecting populations a
priority. The Center boasts a faculty who have pioneered a new way of
thinking about ethics and population health. The Center?s faculty is
also committed to training the next generation of engaged scholars.
For more information, visit http://www.mailman.columbia.edu.
The Global Strategy Seminar is one of more than seventy University
Seminars at Columbia University that offers sustained intellectual
interaction across departmental boundaries. Each seminar acts as an
autonomous and voluntary grouping of scholars and practitioners
brought together under the auspices of Columbia University by their
dedication to a particular line of investigation. The movement is not
only interdisciplinary, but inter-institutional, and involves members
of the community who might not otherwise participate in university
activity. The seminars have as their central goal the integration of
otherwise fragmented knowledge, a pulling together of the many threads
of knowledge and experience through the stimulus of continuing
discussion. Frank Tannenbaum, Professor of Latin American History at
Columbia, founder of the University Seminars, and director until his
death in 1969, was an ardent believer in the potential for
enlightenment contained in meaningful dialogue. Members of the
seminars are drawn from numerous departments in the faculties of
Columbia University, from other colleges and universities, and from
experts and specialists in nonacademic pursuits. Apart from the
members, seminars attract authorities in many fields of scholarship as
speakers and guests. Seminars range from small discussion groups to
larger bodies that, in some cases, have become regional centers for
intellectual exchange where such centers would not otherwise exist.
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