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, SciencePresider:
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/AIDSPresider:
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 GroupPresider:
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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Speakers:
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health program, Council on Foreign Relations; Scientific Consultant, Contagion, Scott Z. Burns, Writer, ContagionPresider:
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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Speakers:
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health program, Council on Foreign Relations; Scientific Consultant, Contagion, Scott Z. Burns, Writer, ContagionPresider:
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 WitwatersrandRobin Wood, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape TownModerator:
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 RelationsPanelists:
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 RelationsPresider:
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 RelationsPresider:
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, BotswanaPresider:
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 UniversityPresider:
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign RelationsSpeakers:
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 AffairsSpeakers:
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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Featured Press
HIV at 50+
Laurie Garrett moderated this panel at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC. Doctors, researchers, and international policymakers discussed the implications of a growing HIV population over 50 years of age and what is required in order to address the new challenges in this aging population, in regards to medicine as well as research and policy.
Dual Uses for Avian Flu Research
Charlotte Howard of the Economist interviewed Laurie Garrett about the controversial bird flu (H5N1) research conducted by Dr. Ron Fouchier at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands. Garrett discusses the contention surrounding duel-use research and the lack of international consensus regarding research regulation.
A Conversation with Peter Piot: No Time to Lose
Laurie Garrett interviews Peter Piot, who discovered the Ebola virus, about his new book No Time to Lose.
Map: Vaccine-Preventable Outbreaks

This interactive map visually plots diseases that are easily preventable by inexpensive and effective vaccines. The Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations has been tracking news reports on these outbreaks since the fall of 2008.
More About Laurie Garrett
See more at Laurie Garrett's personal website, lauriegarrett.com.
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