A bes-selling author and reporter will be speaking to the ISU community about global health issues tonight.Laurie Garrett, medical science reporter for Newsday, is well known for her stories documenting the failing and neglectful public health systems in both developed and developing countries, said Pat Miller, coordinator for Committee on Lectures. She will speak at 8 p.m. in Benton Auditorium at the Scheman Building.Miller said Garrett is the only writer ever to be awarded all three of the big ‘Ps’ in journalism, which are the Pulitzer, Polk and Peabody awards.”Her research and writing are really respected. It was a coup to get her here,” Miller said.Garrett is the noted author of “Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health” and “The Coming Plague,” which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 19 weeks and also spawned a documentary, Miller said.Miller said Garrett’s research and reporting vary from different topics such as antibiotic resistant diseases to the collapse of the former USSR health system.Garrett is the last speaker of the Institute of World Affairs ‘Globalization: Trade, Debt and Civil Disorder’ series, which began in November, Miller said.”The things she will be presenting about will be very applicable in the coming years,” said Jennifer Peyser, co-chair of the Institute on World Affairs and senior in environmental science. “She’s a big name — it will be big.”