MIT World Speakers

Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett has won the Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on the Ebola virus, and earned numerous other awards for her health and science writing.

She has been a writer for Newsday; served as a visiting fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health (1992-93); a science correspondent for National Public Radio; and a science reporter for radio station KPFA.

Her publications include: The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar Straus and Giroux, October 1994); and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion Press, August 2000.