Welcome to MLA’s new scheduling tool where you can view the conference schedule, build your own personal itinerary, connect with other attendees, and view a list of exhibitors.
Note: this scheduling tool will not "register" you for the conference. To register, click here.
Joint presentation by chapters and sections with the 2013 National Program Committee.
Introduction: Bette S. Sydelko, AHIP, Cochair, Task Force for the Joint Presentation by Chapters and Sections with the 2013 National Program Committee, and Clinical Medicine Librarian and Coordinator, Assessment and Outreach, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Speaker: Laurie Garrett
Laurie Garrett is particularly adept at navigating the politics that help, and hinder, how we prepare for, treat, and respond to threats. A senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Garrett is the bestselling author of World Out of Balance for shows, such as consultant to is a former president and now a member of the National Association of Science Writers and has been awarded three honorary doctorates, the latest, in 2009, from Georgetown University. She is also serving as a cochair on the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) High Level Commission on HIV Prevention.
Garrett is the bestselling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in aand Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She has written for Foreign Affairs, Esquire, and the Washington Post, and has appeared frequently on television Nightline, Charlie Rose, and Oprah Winfrey Show. Garrett also served as a scriptContagion, the film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon.
Garrett is a former president and now a member of the National Association of Science Writers and has been awarded three honorary doctorates, the latest, in 2009, from Georgetown University. She is also serving as a cochair on the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) High Level Commission on HIV Prevention.