Laurie Garrett
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Laurie Garrett (born in Los Angeles, California) is a science journalist and a writer, and a winner of Pulitzer prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996. She is the author of The Coming Plague which discussed the vulnerability of the world to disease due to the lack of attention and funding given to health. She also wrote BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Collapse of Global Public Health, which was published by Hyperion in August 2000. Garrett was born in Los Angeles, a 5th generation Los Angeleno. She graduated with honors in biology from the University of California in Santa Cruz. She attended graduate school in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology at UC Berkeley and did research at Stanford University in the laboratory of Dr. Leonard Herzenberg. During her PhD studies, Garrett started reporting on science news at KPFA, a local radio station. The hobby soon became far more interesting than graduate school and she took a leave of absence to explore journalism. Garrett never completed her PhD. Her immaculate and intiguing comments on contemporary healthcare System force even the most ordinary readers to think about these prevalent issues in modern society.
Laurie Garrett received a short fame after her email from Davos forum was leaked to public [1]
[edit] External links
- http://www.lauriegarrett.com
- Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet – an article on Laurie Garrett's privacy troubles by James Grimmelmann
