The naming of science journalist Laurie Garrett as the 2003 Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer at Cornell has prompted the formation of a lunchtime reading group that will discuss connections among public health, emerging diseases, social policies and the environment, while reading Garrett's books.
The next meeting of the reading group is Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Room 300 of Rice Hall, with Cornell medical entomologist Laura Harrington facilitating a discussion of emerging diseases.
Other reading group dates, all at the same time and location in the Center for the Environment's headquarters, are March 12, March 26, April 16 and April 23. Members of the Cornell community are welcome to participate in any or all sessions, according to group-organizer Lois Levitan, director of the Cornell Environmental Risk Analysis Program. More details and a hyperlinked reading list are posted at the Web site: http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/erap/Events/BookGroup-Spr03/.
Garrett will deliver the 2003 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture Thursday, April 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Audit-orium of Kennedy Hall on the topic, "Coming Plagues: Signaling an Environment in Distress." The lecture is free and open to the public.
A medical and science writer for the Long Island-based newspaper Newsday, Garrett won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Zaire's Ebola epidemic. She is the author of "The Coming Plague: Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance" (1994) and "Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health" (2000), the two books under discussion by the reading group.
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