What it Will Take to Prevent the Next Big One: Pandemics, Planetary Health and Our Global Future

Please join us for an evening with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and UC Santa Cruz alumna Laurie Garrett (Merrill 75). Named by the New York Times “Cassandra” for predicting the COVID-19 pandemic and other outbreaks, Garrett will discuss what it will take to prevent the next pandemic, and protect both the health of our planet and the future of global health. UCSC faculty Alicia Riley, assistant professor of sociology, core faculty in global and community health, and Valerie Cortez, assistant professor of molecular cell, and developmental biology will join her in the conversation.