Download Laurie Garrett Bio Background. Recipient of pulitzer prize, polk (2xs) and peabody awards. In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases.
Dr laurie garrett has won the highest awards in journalism for her medical and science writing. She currently heads the global health program at the council on foreign relations (cfr), which was. 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.
A phi beta kappa graduate of tulane university, laurie served for several years as director.
Cause for concern beyond china? Laurie garrett writes, on this date 17 years ago, i was covering the aevere acute respiratory syndrome (sars) virus for several months as it spread across asia, eventually reaching 37 countries, sickening more than 8,098 people and killing 774 of them.. Recipient of pulitzer prize, polk (2xs) and peabody awards. Senior fellow for global health council on foreign relations, author, lecturer, policy advisor.