Senior Fellow for Global Health
Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.
Medicines are increasingly the product of complex supply chains, introducing vulnerabilities to their reliability and safety. CFR Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett lays out how G8 and G20 nations can help to remedy the drug safety crisis.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the current state of global health programs.
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Interest and political will for universal health coverage is growing across the world. Through risk-pooling, medical care can be made accessible and affordable in poor and emerging-market countries.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the current state of global health programs.
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Cubans want the United States to lift its long-standing embargo on Cuba, but any serious easing of trade and travel restrictions between the two countries may badly harm Cuba's health-care industry.
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Laurie Garrett reviews the complex social, political, and financial issues at play ahead of the U.S. presidential election and their implications for domestic and global health programs.
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Laurie Garrett reviews Peter Piot's No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the issue of how to save millions of people from toxic, substandard, contaminated, mislabeled, and dangerous drugs, medicines, and vaccines.
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Tikki Pang and Laurie Garrett argue that the World Health Organization is facing an unprecedented crisis that threatens its position as the premier international health agency, and to ensure its leading role, it must rethink its internal governance and revamp its financing mechanisms.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the danger of excluding the public from the man-made H5N1 flu debate.
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Laurie Garrett says that as recent events have put the future of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in doubt, a critical, dangerous moment has emerged for all of global health.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the mistakes and misjudgments made by government officials in response to the anthrax attacks of 2001 and provides recommendations for what should be done now.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the public policy implications of bird flu and bioterrorism.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the arrival of man-made bird flu virus and the meaning behind a U.S. government advisory board's request that scientific journals not publish details about the virus's creation.
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Laurie Garrett says man-made killer bird flu is now a reality and asks if governments can--and should--try to stop it.
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Laurie Garrett discusses the FRONTLINE documentary, "The Anthrax Letters."
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Laurie Garrett discusses the tenth anniversary of the post-9/11 anthrax mailings.
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A monthly e-newsletter with in-depth analysis of events and new developments in global health, from CFR's Global Health Program.
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Laurie Garrett and El'Haum Alavian discuss the challenge, for the world's richest nations, of assisting emerging economies in their transition to self-reliance in obtaining public goods, and finding solutions that guarantee equitable access to health for the entire family of nations.
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A monthly e-newsletter with in-depth analysis of events and new developments in global health, from CFR's Global Health Program.
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In this segment for NTDTV, Laurie Garrett discusses the potential controversies surrounding accurate report of H7N9 case reports from China.
On his show The Big Picture, Thom Hartmann interviews Laurie Garrett about the H7N9 outbreak in China and how this flu is different from past strains.
In this video clip and accompanying article from Voice of America, Laurie Garrett connects the lessons learned from the swine flu panic in 2009 to today's outbreak of H7N9.
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.
"I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks" was awarded both Gold (Science) and Silver (Current Affairs) medals in the national eLIT Awards competition in May 2012.
See more at Laurie Garrett's personal website, lauriegarrett.com.
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