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Senior Fellow for Global Health
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Phone: +1-212-434-9749
E-mail: kschneider@cfr.org
Location:
New York, NY
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Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of the Council report HIV and National Security: Where are the Links? Presently writing a book examining the global impact of infectious disease.
Expertise:Global health systems; chronic and infectious diseases; bioterrorism; public health and its effects on foreign policy and national security.
Experience:Health and science writer, Newsday (1988-2005); Visiting Fellow, Harvard Public School of Health (1992-93); Science Correspondent, National Public Radio; Department of Food and Agriculture, State of California; science reporter, KPFA Radio Station; freelance reporter and correspondent for Foreign Affairs, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and Current Issues in Public Health; frequent guest on Nightline, The Charlie Rose Show, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, BBC (TV and radio), NPR, CBC (Canada), ABC (Australia), CNN, and a host of other broadcast outlets.
Honors:National Association of Science Writers Science-in-Society Journalism Award (2006), “The Next Pandemic?” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2005); Newsday Publisher’s Award for Outstanding Specialty Reporting (2003); First Prize in the 2002 Medical Book Competition of the British Medical Association, Betrayal of Trust; George C. Polk Award for Best Book of 2000, Betrayal of Trust (2000); Madeleine Dane Ross Award for Best Reporting in Any Media on the Human Condition, Overseas Press Club of America, Betrayal of Trust (2000); Newsday Publisher’s Award for Outstanding Specialist Reporting, “AIDS in Africa” (2000); Public Health Hero Award, NYC Department of Health (2000); George C. Polk Award for International Reporting, “Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health” (1998); finalist, Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, “Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health” (1998); named “Champion of Prevention” by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (1997); Eighteenth Annual Joseph Mountin Lecturer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1997); winner, Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, “Ebola” (1996); finalist, Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, “Ebola” (1996); Presidential Citation, American Public Health Association (1996); Alumna of the Year, University of California, Santa Cruz (1996); Regents’ Lecturer, University of California (1996); Madeleine Dane Ross Award for Best Reporting in Any Media on the Human Condition, Overseas Press Club of America, “Ebola” (1996); Distinguished Achievement Award, Educational Press Association of America (1996); Newsday Publisher’s Award, Best Beat Reporter (1995); American Association for the Advancement of Science Special Citation for Outstanding Journalism (1995); Times Mirror Journalist of the Year (1996); Bob Considine Award of the Overseas Press Club of America (1995); National Press Club (1982); Award of Excellence from the National Association of Black Journalists (1989); George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award (1977); Armstrong Award in Broadcast Journalism (1978).
Selected Publications:Beyond Humanitarianism (contributing author, Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2007); HIV and National Security: Where are the Links?, A Council Report (Council on Foreign Relations Press, 2005); “A $3.9-billion First Strike,” Los Angeles Times (2005); “We Are All Threatened by this Plague,” International Herald Tribune (2005); “The Lessons of HIV/AIDS,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2005); How Did This Happen? Terrorism and the New War (contributor, PublicAffairs, 2001); Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (Hyperion Press, 2000); Epidemic! The World of Infectious Diseases (contributor, W. W. Norton & Company, 1999); “Microbes vs. Mankind-Headline Series Monograph,” Foreign Policy Association (1996); The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1994); Diseases in Evolution: Global Changes and the Emergence of Infectious Diseases (contributor, New York Academy of Sciences, 1994); AIDS: Prevention through Education: A World View (contributor, Oxford University Press, 1992); AIDS in the World: A Global Report (contributor, Harvard University Press, 1992); AIDS: The Women (contributor, Cleis Press, 1988).
Current Research Projects
Past Research Projects
August 10, 2008
Op-Ed
Washington Post
Richard Holbrooke and Laurie Garrett, write about the concept of “viral sovereignty,” an “extremely dangerous idea” that asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations. Fueled by self-destructive, anti-Western sentiments, this concept is slowly gaining traction and poses a real threat to global health.
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
July 30, 2008
Op-Ed
International Herald Tribune
Laurie Garrett argues that our focus in the fight against AIDS should not be to create a multibillion dollar industry that only treats the disease. Instead, our resources need to be geared towards finding a long-term cure that can stop the spread of the virus permanantly.
See more in Global Health, Public Health Threats
June 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the relationship between maternal health and global health in general.
This event was made possible by the generosity of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
See more in Global Health, Women
June 12, 2008
Transcript
See more in Health, Science, and Technology, Global Health, Public Health Threats
June 11, 2008
Transcript
See more in Health, Science, and Technology, Global Health, Public Health Threats
May 21, 2008
Op-Ed
The Hill
Every year, 536,000 women die during childbirth, and an additional 8 million become severely disabled. The death toll doesn’t end with the mothers: 5 percent of all newborns die after their mother’s death, and millions of other children are left orphaned. Isobel Coleman and Laurie Garrett argue that the way to reduce this staggering level of maternal mortality is to “pass legislation that shows real resolve, with money and legislated programs behind it.”
See more in Health, Science, and Technology, Women
May 2008
Other Report
In this Center for Geoeconomic Studies Working Paper, Laurie A. Garrett addresses the mistakes in humanitarian food polices and maps out a better way forward.
See more in Global Health, Foreign Aid
May 13, 2008
Interview
CFR's Laurie Garrett says if Myanmar's regime continues to restrict access to aid workers, the carnage from the cyclone will exceed that of the tsunami.
See more in Burma/Myanmar, Humanitarian Intervention
April 28, 2008
Op-Ed
Huffington Post
Laurie Garrett discusses the confluence of health crises, including bird flu, climate changes and energy and food costs, in Bangladesh.
See more in Bangladesh, Global Health
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February 12, 2008
Transcript
The speakers discuss American interests in the countries that President George W. Bush will visit in February 2008.
See more in United States, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 12, 2008
Audio
Listen to Council experts discuss President Bush’s February 2008 trip to Benin, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, and Liberia .
See more in Africa, Global Health, U.S. Strategy and Politics
February 7, 2008
Audio
Listen to Laurie Garrett, CFR senior fellow for global health, examine the current dialogue on containing and curtailing pandemics as part of CFR's State and Local Officials Conference Call Series.
See more in Global Health
January 28, 2008
News Briefing
CFR experts offer their analysis of President George W. Bush's final State of the Union address.
See more in U.S. Strategy and Politics, Presidency
November 30, 2007
Interview
On the annual occasion of World AIDS day, CFR health expert Laurie Garrett points to problems in tracking and addressing the disease.
See more in Haiti, Global Health
October 7, 2007
Op-Ed
Los Angeles Times
See more in China, Environmental Pollution
August 20, 2007
Interview
CFR fellow Laurie Garrett discusses Botswana’s infant formula policy debacle and its implications for other innovative efforts for fighting HIV/AIDS.
See more in Africa, Global Health
August 16, 2007
Podcast
CFR’s Laurie Garrett discusses Botswana’s failed policy for preventing HIV/AIDS transmission by encouraging mothers to use formula instead of breast feeding.
See more in Africa, Global Health
July 2, 2007
Op-Ed
Washingtonpost.com
See more in Global Health, Foreign Aid
July 2007
Audio
Listen to the audio version of Council Senior Fellow Laurie Garrett's article from the January/February 2007 issue of Foreign Affairs. The article is featured in the new CFR book, Beyond Humanitarianism, a compilation of Council work on Africa.
See more in Africa, Health, Science, and Technology
May 7, 2007
Audio
Listen to Mark R. Dybul, U.S. global AIDS coordinator at the U.S. Department of State, and Thomas R. Frieden, commissioner of health for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, discuss whether male circumcision can play a role in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
See more in Global Health
In Termites in the Trading System, Jagdish Bhagwati reveals how the rapid spread of preferential trade agreements endangers the world trading system.
America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
In The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, Noah Feldman tells the story behind the increasingly popular call for the establishment of the sharia—the law of the traditional Islamic state—in the modern Muslim world.
Complete list of CFR Books.
In this report, CFR Fellow Brad W. Setser recommends addressing the U.S. current account deficit in order to strengthen the United States’ position abroad.
This report, written by CFR Senior Fellow Daniel Markey, outlines the nature of the challenges in Pakistan's tribal areas, formulates strategies for addressing those challenges, and distills the strategies into realistic policy proposals worthy of consideration by the incoming administration.
Complete list of Council Special Reports.
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