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Betrayal of Trust: Critical Issues in Global Healthcare A Lecture by Laurie Garrett

Admission is free.
Reception to follow in Hoyt Gallery.

Laurie Garrett is one of America’s most eloquent and forceful speakers on global healthcare, infectious disease and disease prevention. She will deliver a multimedia talk that uncovers the reality of healthcare in the United States, Europe, Russia and Africa, providing a new understanding of both the challenges and the opportunities of delivering quality healthcare globally.

The only person to win the three “P”s of journalism—the Pulitzer, the Polk and the Peabody—Garrett makes plain the science behind the new threats to public health, both natural and manmade. She is particularly adept at navigating the politics that help and hinder how we prepare, treat and respond to these threats. A senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Garrett is the best-selling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance and Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She has written for Foreign Affairs, Esquire and the Washington Post and appears frequently on television shows such as Nightline, Charlie Rose and Oprah. Garrett is former president and now a member of the National Association of Science Writers and has been awarded three honorary PhDs, the latest from Georgetown University.

Organized by Pamela Schaff (Pediatrics and Keck Educational Affairs), Erin Quinn (Family Medicine and Keck Admissions) and Lyn M. Boyd-Judson (Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics). Co-sponsored by the Keck School of Medicine’s Program in Medical Humanities, Arts and Ethics; the USC Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics; and the Levan Institute for Humanities and Ethics.

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Location: Health Sciences Campus, Mayer Auditorium

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski