A former science correspondent for National Public Radio, Garrett is a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine and a frequent MSNBC contributor. Currently, she is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Health Security Advisory Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Association for Science Writers.

She is a former senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations where she focused on the national security aspects of emerging diseases and climate change. The following year Garrett covered the attacks on the World Trade Center and subsequent anthrax mailings, leading to her third book, I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks (2011). This resulted in publication of her second book, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health (2000). During the 1990s Garrett continued tracking outbreaks and epidemics worldwide, noting the insufficient responses from global public health institutions around the world. The author of three books, Garrett wrote her first best-selling book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (1994), while splitting her time between the Harvard School of Public Health and the New York newspaper Newsday. With decades of experience as a science writer, Garrett speaks with extensive knowledge of emerging diseases and epidemics and their impact on governments and societies. She is the only writer to have been awarded all “Three P’s” of journalism: The Peabody, Polk (twice), and Pulitzer. Garrett is an award-winning science writer and author. Rutgers is proud to bestow upon Laurie Garrett an honorary doctor of science degree.

The Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett