Laurie Garrett papers, 1970-2013

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Summary

Creators:
Garrett, Laurie
Abstract:
Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer winning science journalist and public health and policy advocate. She has written extensively on global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism.
Extent:
124.3 Linear Feet (94 cartons, 14 boxes, and 3 over-sized boxes)
Language:
Collection materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Laurie Garrett papers, MSS 2013-03. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Background

Scope and content:

The Laurie Garrett papers document Garrett's career as a journalist. Material relates to her research concerning chronic and infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, ebola, SARS, avian flu, anthrax, malaria; global health systems; and bio-terrorism. Materials include: journals, newspaper and magazine articles, recorded and film interviews, book reviews, cassette and video discs, correspondence, color and black and white photographs, lecture notes, book manuscript drafts, research notes, related memorabilia and ephemera, awardss, produced pieces for broadcast media, and others.

Biographical / historical:

Laurie Garrett was born in Los Angeles in 1951. She was educated at Merrill College and at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she graduted in 1975 with a BA in biology. She attended the University of California, Berkley, for her graduate studies where she studied in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology. Garrett began reporting about science news on KPFA radio. She later went on to become a journalist at Newsday.

Laurie Garrett is a Pulitzer prize winning science journalist and public health and policy advocate. She has written extensively on global health systems, chronic and infectious diseases, and bioterrorism. Garrett is a former Senior Fellow for the Global Health Program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She has authored several books, including the best-selling The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, 2000. Garrett is the only journalist to be awarded the Peabody, the Polk, and the Pulitzer. She has been a featured speaker at many international meetings and has given several commencement speeches at many prestigious universities.

Acquisition information:
Collection materials were donated to the UCSF Archives and Special Collections by Laurie Garrett in 2013.
Processing information:

Processed by Edith Escobedo in 2019. Collection processing made possible by a 2016 National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) grant from the National Archives (www.archives.gov/nhprc) in support of the project, "Evolution of San Francisco's Response to a Public Health Crisis: Providing Access to New AIDS History Collections," an expansion of the AIDS History Project (AHP).

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged in 7 series: I. Research and subject files, II. Correspondence, III. Newsletters, IV. Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health and The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance drafts and notes, V. Non-print material, VI. Conferences, and VII. Memoribilia.

Accruals:

No future additions are expected.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Laurie Garrett papers, MSS 2013-03. Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Location of this collection:
UCSF Library & CKM Archives and Special Collections, 530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840, US