Laurie Garrett is the Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks, among other books. Her 1994 bestseller The Coming Plague set the stage for this time of new disease emergence.
GiveWell spoke to Ms. Garrett about global health and biosecurity, emerging pathogens, gain-offunction research, synthetic biology, and other topics related to biosecurity.