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Senior Fellow for Global Health
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Phone: +1-212-434-9749
E-mail: kschneider@cfr.org
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New York, NY
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Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of the Council report HIV and National Security: Where are the Links? Presently writing a book examining the global impact of infectious disease.
Expertise:Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.
Experience:Health and science writer, Newsday (1988-2005); Visiting Fellow, Harvard Public School of Health (1992-93); Science Correspondent, National Public Radio; Department of Food and Agriculture, State of California; science reporter, KPFA Radio Station; freelance reporter and correspondent for Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health; frequent guest on Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, BBC (TV and radio), NPR, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), CNN, and a host of other broadcast outlets.
Honors:National Association of Science Writers Science-in-Society Journalism Award (2006), “The Next Pandemic?” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2005); Newsday Publisher’s Award for Outstanding Specialty Reporting (2003); First Prize in the 2002 Medical Book Competition of the British Medical Association, Betrayal of Trust; George C. Polk Award for Best Book of 2000, Betrayal of Trust (2000); Madeleine Dane Ross Award for Best Reporting in Any Media on the Human Condition, Overseas Press Club of America, Betrayal of Trust (2000); Newsday Publisher’s Award for Outstanding Specialist Reporting, “AIDS in Africa” (2000); Public Health Hero Award, NYC Department of Health (2000); George C. Polk Award for International Reporting, “Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health” (1998); finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, “Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health” (1998); named “Champion of Prevention” by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (1997); Eighteenth Annual Joseph Mountin Lecturer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1997); winner, Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, “Ebola” (1996); finalist, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, “Ebola” (1996); Presidential Citation, American Public Health Association (1996); Alumna of the Year, University of California, Santa Cruz (1996); Regents’ Lecturer, University of California (1996); Madeleine Dane Ross Award for Best Reporting in Any Media on the Human Condition, Overseas Press Club of America, “Ebola” (1996); Distinguished Achievement Award, Educational Press Association of America (1996); Newsday Publisher’s Award, Best Beat Reporter (1995); American Association for the Advancement of Science Special Citation for Outstanding Journalism (1995); Times Mirror Journalist of the Year (1996); Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Club of America (1995); National Press Club (1982); Award of Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists (1989); George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award (1977); Armstrong Award in Broadcast Journalism (1978).
Selected Publications:Beyond Humanitarianism (contributing author, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2007); HIV and National Security: Where are the Links?, A Council Report (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2005); “A $3.9-billion First Strike,” Los Angeles Times (2005); “We Are All Threatened by this Plague,” International Herald Tribune (2005); “The Lessons of HIV/AIDS,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2005); How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (contributor, PublicAffairs, 2001); Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion Press, 2000); Epidemic! The World of Infectious Diseases (contributor, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999); “Microbes vs. Mankind-Headline Series Monograph,” Foreign Policy Association (1996); The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994); Diseases in Evolution: Global Changes and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases (contributor, New York Academy of Sciences, 1994); AIDS: Prevention through Education: A World View (contributor, Oxford University Press, 1992); AIDS in the World: A Global Report (contributor, Harvard University Press, 1992); AIDS: The Women (contributor, Cleis Press, 1988).
Book Chapter:
"Global Health: Getting it Right," chapter coathored with Kammerle Schneider, in Health and Development: Toward a Matrix Aproach (eds. Anna Gatti and Andrea Boggio; Palgrave Macmillan, December 2008). First chapter available to download here.
Interviews:
WNYC, The Takeaway: "Swine Flu Update" (radio interview; April 27, 2009)
NPR, All Things Considered: "Mexico Outbreaks the Latest in String of Flu Panics" (radio interview; April 24, 2009)
Related Links:
CFR's International Institutions and Global Governance Program
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
June 19, 2009
Article
Center for Global Development
Laurie Garrett and Kammerle Schneider discuss the use of antibiotics in feed animals, and its contribution to the rise of antibiotic resistant pathogens.
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
June 12, 2009
Podcast
CFR's Laurie Garrett says a number of factors delayed the World Health Organization from declaring swine flu a global pandemic, including internal politics and concerns about flaws in the alert system.
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
June 10, 2009
Op-Ed
New York Times
Laurie A. Garrett argues that in handling pandemics, "governments should only set up action and threat assessment systems that are flexible, and useful."
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
May 8, 2009
Audio
Listen to Laurie A. Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, explain the origins of H1N1, the threat it poses, and the actions that should be taken to minimize the pandemic threat of diseases such as the swine flu. Stewart M. Patrick, senior fellow and director of the program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations, makes concluding remarks.
This session was part of the CFR conference: The United States and the Future of Global Governance, which was made possible through the generous support of the Robina Foundation.
See more in Global Governance, Global Health
May 8, 2009
Video
Watch Laurie A. Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, explain the origins of H1N1, the threat it poses, and the actions that should be taken to minimize the pandemic threat of diseases such as the swine flu. Stewart M. Patrick, senior fellow and director of the program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations, makes concluding remarks.
This session was part of the CFR conference: The United States and the Future of Global Governance, which was made possible through the generous support of the Robina Foundation.
See more in Global Governance, Global Health
May 8, 2009, New York, NY
Transcript
Laurie A. Garrett speaks at CFR on the global response to the H1N1 virus.
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May 5, 2009
Article
Council on Foreign Relations
An e-newsletter from CFR's Global Health Program providing an update on the outbreak of the H1N1 virus.
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
May 18, 2009
Article
Newsweek
Laurie A. Garrett discusses the origins and path of H1N1 swine influenza.
See more in Global Health
April 27, 2009, New York, NY
Transcript
A Council on Foreign Relations media conference call about the current state of the swine flu outbreak.
See more in United States, Global Health, Public Health Threats
April 27, 2009
Audio
Listen to CFR expert Laurie Garrett discuss the threat of a global swine flu pandemic and possible policy responses.
See more in International Organizations, Global Health, Public Health Threats, Society and Culture
April 2009
Other Report
This Working Paper, a contribution to the aids2031 project, focuses on the future of donor financing for HIV prevention and treatment programs and makes recommendations for what the donor community and national governments can do now to build a foundation that ensures steady, long-term funding for HIV/AIDS and alleviates the impact of future challenges.
See more in Global Health, Foreign Aid
March 5, 2009
Audio
Listen to Laurie A. Garrett, CFR senior fellow for global health, discuss her recent report, "The Future of Foreign Assistance Amid Global Economic and Financial Crisis: Advancing Global Health in the U.S. Development Agenda" as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call Series.
February 26, 2009
Video
Watch former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora discuss his recommendations on how best to manage public health programs during the global financial crisis, including changes to health insurance policies.
See more in Mexico, Global Health
February 26, 2009
Audio
Listen to former Mexican health minister Julio Frenk Mora discuss his recommendations on how best to manage public health programs during the global financial crisis, including changes to health insurance policies.
See more in Mexico, Global Health
February 9, 2009
Expert Brief
CFR Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett says the recent Davos economic forum failed to provide any blue print for reconciling the financial crisis and development aid needs. She predicts donor nations will "face tough sells, trying to convince their voters that it is vital to spend money feeding starving masses abroad."
See more in Emerging Markets, Financial Crises
January 30, 2009
Podcast
CFR health expert Laurie Garrett says the start of a new U.S. administration amid a global economic crisis offers an opportunity to reform the system for delivering foreign aid.
See more in United States, Foreign Aid
January 30, 2009
Article
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine
Kammerle Schneider and Laurie Garrett argue that "there is a need to return to the foundations of the Alma Ata Declaration signed thirty years ago with the goal of providing universal access to primary healthcare."
See more in Economic Development, Global Health
January 22, 2009
Transcript
A panel discussion on how American foreign aid will be affected by the global economic crisis.
See more in Foreign Aid
January 2009
Other Report
Though the United States of America faces its toughest budgetary and economic challenges since the Great Depression, it cannot afford to eliminate, or even reduce, its foreign assistance spending. For clear reasons of political influence, national security, global stability, and humanitarian concern the United States must, at a minimum, stay the course in its commitments to global health and development, as well as basic humanitarian relief. In this report, Laurie A. Garrett makes recommendations for the future of foreign aid under a new presidential administration and Congress.
See more in Global Governance, Global Health
December 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to CFR experts Laurie Garrett and J. Anthony Holmes discuss the political and humanitarian crisis unfolding in Zimbabwe, including the recent outbreak of cholera.
Explore international efforts to curb nuclear proliferation with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
The Canadian oil sands present an important challenge to policymakers: they promise energy security benefits but present climate change problems. Michael A. Levi assesses the energy security and climate change effects of the oil sands and makes recommendations for U.S. policymakers within the context of broader bilateral relations with Canada.
This report explores an important element of the maritime policy regime: the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Author Scott G. Borgerson examines the international negotiations that led to the convention, the history of debates in the United States over whether to join it, and the strategic importance of the oceans for U.S. foreign policy today.
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In War of Necessity, War of Choice, Richard N. Haass contrasts the decisions that shaped the conduct of two wars between the United States and Iraq involving the two presidents Bush and Saddam Hussein, and writes an authoritative, personal account of how U.S. foreign policy is made, what it should seek, and how it should be pursued.
In Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know, Julia E. Sweig presents a remarkably accessible portrait of Cuba’s unique place on the world stage over the past fifty years, including its internal politics, its often fraught relationship with the United States, and its shifting relationship with the global community.
As Ray Takeyh shows in Guardians of the Revolution, behind the famous personalities and extremist slogans of Iran is a nation that is far more pragmatic—and complex—than many in the West have been led to believe.
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