Laurie Garrett Biography
Laurie Garrett is a science journalist and author from the United States. In 1996, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism for a series of articles published in Newsday about the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire.
How old is Laurie Garrett?- Age
Laurie is 72 years old as of 2023. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, United States
Laurie Garrett Education
In 1969, she graduated from San Marino High School. In 1975, she received a B.S. in biology with honors from Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Garrett enrolled in the Ph.D. program in bacteriology and immunology at the University of California, Berkeley, but dropped out to pursue a career as a journalist.
Laurie Garrett Family
Garrett lives in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of New York City, however, She has not yet disclosed any information about her parents or whether she has siblings. Attempts to establish the identities of her family, her mother, and her father were in vain since no information about them is available to the public. It’s therefore not known whether she has any siblings.
Laurie Garrett Career
She worked in management, news, and radio documentary production at KPFA. She earned the Peabody Award for broadcasting in 1977 for a documentary series she co-produced with Adi Gevins. Garrett’s other KPFA production efforts received the Edwin Howard Armstrong award. Garrett won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of articles published in Newsday about the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire. She received a George Polk Award for foreign reporting in 1997 for her article “Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health” in Newsday, which was defined as “a series of 25 articles on the public health crisis in the former Soviet Union.”
In 2000, she received another Polk Award for her book Betrayal of Trust, which was described as “a meticulously researched account of health catastrophes occurring in different places at the same time, amounting to a disaster of global proportions.” Garrett became a senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Global Health Program in 2004. She has worked on a wide range of public health challenges, including SARS, avian flu, tuberculosis, malaria, shipping container clinics, HIV/AIDS intersection, and national security. Garrett was interviewed for a complete episode of TWiV, This Week in Virology, on June 27, 2021, in which she covered many aspects of the SARS-CoV-2 (also known as Covid-19) pandemic, analogies with previous epidemics, and possibilities for the future of public health.
Laurie Garrett Awards
She co-produced the 1977 Peabody Award for broadcasting alongside Adi Gevins. Garrett’s other KPFA production efforts received the Edwin Howard Armstrong award. Garrett won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1996 for a series of articles published in Newsday about the Ebola virus outbreak in Zaire. She received a George Polk Award for foreign reporting in 1997 for her article “Crumbled Empire, Shattered Health” in Newsday.
Laurie Garrett Net Worth
Garrett has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.