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Senior Fellow for Global Health
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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.
December 12, 2008
Transcript
See more in Zimbabwe, Democracy and Human Rights, Health, Science, and Technology, Global Health
November 20, 2008
Expert Brief
CFR Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett writes that the United States cannot afford to reduce its foreign assistance spending, even though it faces its toughest budgetary challenge since the Great Depression.
See more in United States, Financial Crises, Global Health
August 10, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Richard Holbrooke and Laurie Garrett, write about the concept of “viral sovereignty,” an “extremely dangerous idea” that asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations. Fueled by self-destructive, anti-Western sentiments, this concept is slowly gaining traction and poses a real threat to global health.
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
July 30, 2008
Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
Laurie Garrett argues that our focus in the fight against AIDS should not be to create a multibillion dollar industry that only treats the disease. Instead, our resources need to be geared towards finding a long-term cure that can stop the spread of the virus permanantly.
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
June 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the relationship between maternal health and global health in general.
This event was made possible by the generosity of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
See more in Global Health, Women
June 12, 2008
Transcript
See more in Health, Science, and Technology, Global Health, Public Health Threats
June 11, 2008
Transcript
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May 21, 2008
Op-Ed
The Hill
Every year, 536,000 women die during childbirth, and an additional 8 million become severely disabled. The death toll doesn’t end with the mothers: 5 percent of all newborns die after their mother’s death, and millions of other children are left orphaned. Isobel Coleman and Laurie Garrett argue that the way to reduce this staggering level of maternal mortality is to “pass legislation that shows real resolve, with money and legislated programs behind it.”
See more in Health, Science, and Technology, Women
May 2008
Other Report
In this Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper, Laurie A. Garrett addresses the mistakes in humanitarian food polices and maps out a better way forward.
See more in Global Health, Foreign Aid
May 13, 2008
Interview
CFR's Laurie Garrett says if Myanmar's regime continues to restrict access to aid workers, the carnage from the cyclone will exceed that of the tsunami.
See more in Burma/Myanmar, Humanitarian Intervention
April 28, 2008
Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Laurie Garrett discusses the confluence of health crises, including bird flu, climate changes and energy and food costs, in Bangladesh.
See more in Bangladesh, Global Health
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February 12, 2008
Transcript
The speakers discuss American interests in the countries that President George W. Bush will visit in February 2008.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to Council experts discuss President Bush’s February 2008 trip to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia .
See more in Africa, Global Health, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 7, 2008
Audio
Listen to Laurie Garrett, CFR senior fellow for global health, examine the current dialogue on containing and curtailing pandemics as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.
See more in Global Health
Explore the international finance regime with a new interactive from CFR's program on International Institutions and Global Governance.
Identifying international threats and acting on them may be the most difficult job for U.S. policymakers. This report
provides an actionable road map for managing international threats before they erupt into crises and makes a strong case that preventive action is not a luxury but a necessity.
For more than a decade, the United States has mostly watched from the sidelines as Asian countries organize themselves into an alphabet soup of new multilateral groups. In this report, the authors review the relationship between pan-Asian and trans-Pacific institutions and suggest policy guidelines for a new U.S. approach to this new Asian landscape.
Complete list of Council Special Reports
Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel—a country of 7.1 million, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies— produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the UK? With the insights of geopolitical experts and investors, the authors examine this nation’s adversity-driven culture to answer this question and offer prescriptions for a global economy on the rebound.
In Forces of Fortune, Vali Nasr presents a paradigm-changing revelation that will transform the understanding of the Muslim world at large. He reveals that there is a vital but unseen rising force in the Islamic world—a new business-minded middle class—that is building a vibrant new Muslim world economy and that holds the key to winning the cold war against Iran and extremists.
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.
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