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Laurie Garrett

Senior Fellow for Global Health

Expertise

Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.

Programs

Global Health Program

CFR Events

Conference Call

The International AIDS Conference: Wrap Up

Speaker:

Jon Cohen, Correspondent, Science

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
July 30, 2012

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Roundtable Meeting

A Conversation with Peter Piot

Speakers:

Peter Piot, Director, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; Author, No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses, Michel Sidibe, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
June 18, 2012

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Roundtable Meeting

Universal Health Coverage: The Future of Healthcare Reform?

Speakers:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations, Daniel Altman, Director, Thought Leadership, Dalberg Global Advisors, Alexander S. Preker, Head, Health Industry and Investment Policy Analysis, World Bank Group

Presider:

Yanzhong Huang, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
April 24, 2012

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Roundtable Meeting

Losing Ground in the Vaccine Fight? Denialism, Measles, Polio, and Mumps - Old Scourges and New Problems

Speakers:

Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI), Sophie Delaunay, Executive Director, U.S. Section of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
October 24, 2011

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General Meeting ⁄ New York

Screening of Contagion

Speakers:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health program, Council on Foreign Relations; Scientific Consultant, Contagion, Scott Z. Burns, Writer, Contagion

Presider:

Sanjay K. Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN; Associate Chief of Neurosurgery, Grady Memorial Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine
September 6, 2011 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Reception
6:30-9:00 p.m. - Screening and Discussion

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General Meeting ⁄ New York

Screening of Contagion

Speakers:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health program, Council on Foreign Relations; Scientific Consultant, Contagion, Scott Z. Burns, Writer, Contagion

Presider:

Sanjay K. Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent, CNN; Associate Chief of Neurosurgery, Grady Memorial Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine
September 6, 2011 5:30-6:30 p.m. - Reception
6:30-9:00 p.m. - Screening and Discussion

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Conference Panel Session

Potential Solutions

Speakers:

Caroline Smith DeWaal, Food Safety Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Aline Plançon, Head of INTERPOL-IMPACT Project and Head of Medical Products Counterfeiting and Pharmaceutical Crime Unit (MPCPC), INTERPOL, France, Michael Robach, Vice President, Corporate Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs, Cargill, Inc., Greg Simon, Senior Vice President, Worldwide Policy, Pfizer, Inc.

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
January 31, 2011

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Conference Panel Session

Meeting the Challenge of HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Treatment Access and Retention

Speaker:

Francois Venter, HIV Management Cluster, Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand

Commentator:

Robin Wood, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town

Moderator:

Laurie Garrett, Council on Foreign Relations
January 21, 2010

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Conference Panel Session

Pandemic Influenza: Science, Economics, and Foreign Policy: Foreign Policy

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Panelists:

John Lange, Senior Program Officer for Developing-Country Policy & Advocacy, Global Health Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Former Special Representative on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, U.S. Department of State, Helen Branswell, Medical Reporter, The Canadian Press
October 16, 2009

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Conference Panel Session

The United States and the Future of Global Governance: H1N1 - The Global Response to the Swine Influenza

Speaker:

Laurie Garrett, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider:

James Traub, New York Times Magazine
May 7, 2009 - May 8, 2009

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Roundtable Meeting

The Future Of Foreign Assistance Amid Global Economic and Financial Crisis: Advancing Global Health In The U.S. Development Agenda

Speakers:

Seth Berkley, President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director, Women and Foreign Policy Progra, Council on Foreign Relations, Nils Daulaire, President and CEO, Global Health Council, Helene D. Gayle, President and CEO, CARE, Nita M. Lowey, U.S. Representative (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives, Princeton N. Lyman, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Stewart M. Patrick, Senior Fellow and Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
January 22, 2009

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Symposium ⁄ New York

CFR Symposium: Rethinking Maternal Health - Session 1

Speakers:

Brian Brink, International Women's Health Coalition, Nils Daulaire, President and CEO, Global Health Council, Sheila Tlou, Member of Parliament and Former Minister of Health, Botswana

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
June 12, 2008 9:45-11:00 a.m.

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Symposium ⁄ New York

Maternal Health and Foreign Policy Symposium, Session 2: Finding Solutions

Speakers:

Allan G. Rosenfield, Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University

Presider:

Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations

Speakers:

Mary Robinson, President, Realizing Rights: the Ethical Globalization Initiative; Professor in the Professional Practice of International Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University; former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; former Pres
June 27, 2006

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General Meeting

The Threat of Global Pandemics

Presider:

James F. Hoge Jr., Peter G. Peterson Chair, Editor, Foreign Affairs

Speakers:

Anthony S. Fauci, Director, National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rita Colwell, Chair, Royal Institution World Science Assembly's Pandemic Preparedness Project, Michael Osterholm, Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota; Associate Director, National Center for Food Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Professor, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
June 16, 2005

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