Garrett Receives Major CDCP Award
Laurie Garrett, medical writer for Newsday and
immediate past president of the National Association of Science Writers,
has been presented with the 18th annual Champions of Prevention Award by
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is the only journalist
to have received the award and the only non-physician excepting President
Jimmy Carter. Garrett’s book, The Coming Plague, called for
greater national attention to deficiencies in public-health preparedness
for emergent epidemics.
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