“In an interview with Atlantic senior editor Corby Kummer at The Atlantic Meets the Pacific on Friday, [Laurie Garrett, a journalist and senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations,] calmly outlined several very real threats facing the global population,” The Atlantic reports. In the interview summary, Garrett discusses the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, vaccination campaigns, bird flu research, and the increasing prevalence of non-communicable diseases, among other issues (Green, 10/5).