As the United States prepares to take the lead in the fight against Ebola, is it too little too late? Laurie Garrett from joins MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show on Saturday, September 20, 2014 to discuss.
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Laurie Garrett and Lawrence Gostin of Georgetown Law School join Judy Woodruff on PBS NewsHour on September 16, 2014 for a deep dive into the plan to deploy U.S. aid and military support to fight Ebola in West Africa.
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Laurie Garrett appears on Democracy Now! on September 15, 2014, to discuss the current state of the Ebola outbreak, saying that the world is at a turning point. We either find a way to mobilize in an unprecedented way, or there will be 250,000 cases by the end of the year.
As part of the NIH Global Health Interest Group on global health “hot topics,” Laurie Garrett gives a talk on the current Ebola outbreak on September 11, 2014, and explains why this public health emergency is a national security threat. Laurie’s speech begins at 2:09.
The Ebola crisis is now taking a considerable toll on the political stability and economic security of West Africa. Mark Quarterman, Laurie Garrett, William Karesh, and Frankie Edozien join MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show on September 7, 2014 to discuss. This is the first part of a two-part segment.
In this second part of a two-part segment on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show on September 7, 2014, Laurie Garrett comments on President Obama's statements about the Ebola outbreak on Meet the Press and calls for immediate action from the U.S. government.
With each week the news about the Ebola crisis seems to grow more dire, with the virus now having surfaced in a fifth country—Senegal. Joel Montgomery, from the CDC Ebola Response Team in Liberia and Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations join MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show on August 31, 2014 to discuss.
Even with more than one thousand people dead in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Libera as a result of the current Ebola outbreak, "The response is so anemic, so much less than what is needed," says Laurie Garrett on Charlie Rose: The Week.
Laurie Garrett appeared on Democracy Now! with Larry Gostin, Georgetown University, and Adia Benton, Brown University, to discuss what needs to be understood about the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The treatment of two Ebola-infected Americans with an experimental drug, Z-Mapp, raises the question of whether it has potential for widespread use in combating the outbreak in West Africa. Judy Woodruff gets perspective on the topic from two experts, Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations and Dr. Robert Garry of Tulane University School of Medicine, on this segment of PBS's Newshour.
The current Ebola outbreak in cities in Western Africa has become the most infectious, most deadly Ebola outbreak in history. Laurie Garrett joined the table on MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show to discuss on July 6, 2014.
The latest Ebola outbreak in West Africa is now the largest and deadliest outbreak ever. And unlike outbreaks of the past, it is affecting both rural and urban areas. On PBS NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown talks to Laurie Garrett about a recent summit on the outbreak, distrust building against health workers in infected areas and how porous borders make this outbreak so hard to contain.
In this talk at TEDxDanubia in Budapest, Laurie Garrett examines the three major revolutions in biology: synthetic biology, gain-of-function research, and metagenomics. She then asks if humanity has the proper procedures in place to prevent or to control a direction evolution mishap.
Laurie Garrett appeared on CNN to explain the difficulties of containing an ebola outbreak.
Laurie Garrett appeared on PBS's NewsHour on April 8, 2014 to discuss the outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, and why Doctors Without Borders is calling the spread of this disease, "unprecedented."
Laurie Garrett appeared on a panel at Georgetown Law School with Zeke Emmanuel and Edith Brown Weiss on major challenges to global health. The panel marked release of Lawrence Gostin's new book Global Health Law published by Harvard Press.
In a conversation with BBC Future at the Atlantic Meets the Pacific festival, Laurie Garrett discusses her fears that humanity is taking a lackluster approach to facing up to the problems of the future. From newly emerging diseases to lethal and drug-resistant strains of familiar plagues, Garrett believes people have become overly complacent about some of the biggest threats to life on Earth.
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In this discussion forum on current issues at the United Nations Organized by United Nations Academic Impact, in association with Council on Foreign Relations, Laurie Garrett discusses dual-use research of concern and synthetic biology.
Gideon Rose, editor of Foreign Affairs, interviews Laurie Garrett, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, on the promise and perils of synthetic biology
In this headline interview with Corby Kummer at the Atlantic Meets the Pacific conference on October 4, 2013, Laurie Garrett discusses emerging threats to human health, ranging from gain-of-function research and synthetic biology to climate change's effects on the microbiome.