Award-Winning Journalist to Present UB Lecture

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Award-winning journalist Laurie Garrett will speak at 8 p.m. April 6 in the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus as part of the Univesity at Buffalo's Distinguished Speakers Series.

Garrett has traveled the world, researching and reporting on global health care, natural and man-made threats to public health and the impact of such threats on foreign policy and national security.

She is the only person to ever win all three of the most elite awards in American journalism—the Peabody, the Polk and the Pulitzer.

Garrett is a medical and science writer for New York Newsday. Her writings also have appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Current Issues in Public Health and The Los Angeles Times.

Garrett is the author of two best-selling books: "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World out of Balance" and "Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health."

In 2004, she was named senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Tickets for Garrett's lecture are available at the Center for the Arts box office, 645-ARTS, and at all Ticketmaster locations, including Ticketmaster.com.