Laurie Garrett, the award-winning journalist and author of
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health, will speak on Tuesday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m., in Union College's Nott Memorial.
Her talk, titled “Betrayal of Trust,” is part of Union's
Perspectives at the Nott lecture series. It is free and open to the public.
Garrett's new book argues that public health systems are
extremely fragile, that the wealth gap exacerbates public health stress and
that health systems are too costly and narrowly focused. “Western models of
individualized medicine are too costly and offer little benefit in terms of
life expectancy. They fail to address the fundamental roots of bad health in
poor countries such as un-clean water and lack of vaccines,” she writes on her
web site.
Garrett is the only writer ever to have garnered all three
of the “big Ps” of journalism: the Peabody, Polk (twice), and
Pulitzer.
She is a medical and science writer for Newsday,
where she has won numerous honors for her work. She was an award-winning
science correspondent on National Public Radio, and has appeared frequently on
national television, including ABC's Nightline,
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie
Rose, Oprah Winfrey, and Dateline.
Garrett also is the author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases
in a World Out of Balance.
For more on Garrett, visit: http://www.lauriegarrett.com.