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DESCRIPTION:Due to space constraints we are no longer accepting RSVPs for G
 lobal Health Night\n\nGlobal Health Night will be be held on November 7\, 
 2017 at Centre Mont-Royal and this year\, we are extremely happy to have n
 one other than Laurie Garrett\, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Journalist Speciali
 zing in Global Public Health & Foreign Policy Voice Writer and author of T
 he Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust\, as our keynote speaker.\n\nAbout 
 Laurie Garrett\n\nLaurie Garrett is one of America’s most trusted speakers
  on global public health\, infectious disease\, and\, recently\, the Ebola
  crisis and the emerging Zika virus. The only person to win the three P’s 
 of journalism—the Pulitzer\, the Polk\, and the Peabody—she explains the s
 cience behind new threats\, and navigates the politics that help\, and hin
 der\, how we prepare and how we respond to them. \n\nDuring the Ebola cris
 is of 2014\, Laurie Garrett offered unrivaled commentary on Twitter\, thro
 ugh her blog\, and as the go-to expert in the media. The Chairman of the J
 oint Chiefs of Staff—General Martin E. Dempsey—took to Facebook to praise 
 Garrett and her book The Coming Plague\, writing that “its lessons in how 
 disease has shaped human history are uncannily relevant to today’s Ebola c
 risis ... this book is worth the read to understand infectious outbreaks l
 ike Ebola and how we’re shaping our national response.” Today\, she’s doin
 g the same for the new Zika epidemic\, providing up-to-date intelligence o
 n its scope and severity\, and the search for a vaccine.\n\nA Senior Fello
 w for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations\, Garrett is the b
 estselling author of The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World
  Out of Balance\, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health 
 and I Heard The Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Ant
 hrax Attacks. She has written for Foreign Affairs\, Esquire\, and The Wash
 ington Post\, and appears frequently on television shows\, such as Nightli
 ne\, Charlie Rose and Oprah.\n\nGarrett was a script consultant to Contagi
 on\, the film directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon. She i
 s a former president and now a member of the National Association of Scien
 ce Writers\, and has been awarded several honorary PhDs\, the latest from 
 the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also serving as a co-c
 hair on the UNAIDS High Commission on HIV Prevention.    \n\nMore about Gl
 obal Health Night\n
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LOCATION:CA\, QC\, Montréal\, H3A 3R8\, Centre Mont-Royal\, 2200\, Mansfiel
 d Street
SUMMARY:Global Health Night 2017
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/globalhealth/channels/event/global-health-night-2
 017-267653
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