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  • Preferred Citation
  • Conditions Governing Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Separated Materials
  • Acquisition Information
  • Additions
  • Related Materials
  • Processing Information
  • Biographical Information
  • Scope and Contents
  • Arrangement

  • Contributing Institution: University of California, San Francisco Archives & Special Collections
    Title: Laurie Garrett papers
    source: Garrett, Laurie
    Identifier/Call Number: MSS .2013.03
    Physical Description: 124.3 Linear Feet (94 cartons, 14 boxes, and 3 over-sized boxes)
    Date (inclusive): 1970-2013
    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.
    Language of Material: 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.

    Conditions Governing Access

    Collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    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.

    Separated Materials

    Selected publications, including books, conference proceedings, and journal issues, from the collection have been transferred to the UCSF Library general collection or the AIDS History Book Collection and History Collection of the UCSF Archives and Special Collections. Publications have been individually cataloged and are available to researchers.

    Acquisition Information

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

    Additions

    No future additions are expected.

    Related Materials

    The collection is part of the AIDS History Project. Learn more about the project and related collections by contacting the UCSF Archivist or visiting www.library.ucsf.edu/archives/aids.

    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).

    Biographical Information

    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.

    Scope and Contents

    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.

    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.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    AIDS (Disease)
    World health
    Public health
    Garrett, Laurie