CDPC Speaker Series: Biosocial Dynamics by Laurie Garrett

What will be the biosocial dynamics of the next global pandemic? 

What are the shortcomings of disease-specific, ‘vertical’  intervention models of development aid for health? How will emerging economies in China, India, and Brazil change the politics of  development aid in coming decades?

Staff and students from NUI  Maynooth and Trinity College discussed these and other pressing  questions during a visit to Ireland on 30 September and 1 October by  renowned global health scholar and author Laurie Garrett. 

Garrett  is Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign  relations and the author of many well known works including The  Coming Plague and Betrayal of Trust. 

The Combat Diseases of Poverty  Consortium, led by NUI Maynooth, hosted Garrett on her first visit  to Ireland.  Garrett gave a lecture on Maynooth on her recent work  on the public health implications of the response to the 9/11 and  anthrax attacks in the United States.  Then, on 1 October, Garrett  conducted a special masterclass at Trinity's Long Room Hub  cooperatively arranged by CDPC and the Centre for Global Health at  Trinity College Dublin. 

Students in postgraduate programmes in  anthropology and development (NUIM), immunology and global health  (NUIM), and global health (TCD) took part.  Somewhat nervous  students were invited to present synopses of several of Garrett’s  recent global health publications and to put questions to her.  All  involved judged the format of the masterclass a success and thanked  Garrett for her generous participation.