Category: EcoHealth Alliance

NIH Tightens Funding Requirements for Foreign Research Collaboration

The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy that puts under scrutiny foreign collaborations on research projects, especially when foreign partners receive sub-awards. The new policy will take effect in October this year. According to its requirements, the primary grantee, or the American partner, should receive from the foreign partner copies of the lab…


NIH Renews Controversial Grant to EcoHealth for Coronavirus Bat Study

National Institute of Health (NIH) officials have re-activated a previously terminated $576,290 federal grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study how outbreaks of deadly viruses like SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19 originate from wildlife and transfers to humans. The move has prompted one Republican lawmaker to demand that NIH explain the decision she described as “absolutely…


Ecohealth Alliance May Have Double Billed US Government for Chinese Virus Research: Investigators

The U.S.-based group that funneled taxpayer money to the laboratory in China in the city where the first COVID-19 cases were detected may have double billed the U.S. government, an investigative team has found. A team led by Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator, uncovered evidence of potential double billing by the EcoHealth Alliance, a New…


US Group May Have Double Billed Government for Research in China: Investigators

The U.S.-based group that funneled taxpayer money to the laboratory in China in the city where the first COVID-19 cases were detected may have double billed the U.S. government, an investigative team has found. A team led by Diane Cutler, a former federal investigator, uncovered evidence of potential double billing by the EcoHealth Alliance, a New…


Everything You Need to Know About the Lab Leak

News Analysis Between 2014 and 2019, U.S. tax dollars were funneled to the Wuhan Institute of Virology via EcoHealth Alliance. Given that U.S. scientists have far more virology expertise than the Chinese, this begs an obvious question: what type of research were U.S. tax dollars paying for in Wuhan, China? Dr. Fauci’s surprising statement in an interview might provide…


Damning Inspector General Report Condemns NIH, Suggests Pandemic Could Have Been Prevented

EcoHealth Alliance, the organization through which Dr. Anthony Fauci funded the Wuhan lab, continues to receive millions in taxpayer grants. The latest grant was awarded in January of this year—for studying land use in Brazil. And the grant before that was awarded a month earlier in December. That grant was for $3 million to look…


The Science Too Is Captured

Commentary The “nonprofit” called EcoHealth Alliance currently has 12 active grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $34 million, if you can believe it. Recall that EcoHealth is the institution that Fauci chose as a conduit through which to fund the Wuhan Institute of Virology after gain-of-function research became verboten due to changes…


NIH Failed to Monitor EcoHealth Funding, Did Not Understand the Research Being Done: HHS-OIG Report

National Institutes for Health (NIH) officials failed to monitor EcoHealth funding awards properly and thus could not fully understand the research being conducted by the nonprofit at U.S. taxpayers’ expense, according to investigators with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OIG). “Despite identifying potential risks associated with research…


NIH Failed to Monitor EcoHealth Funding, Didn’t Understand the Research Being Done: HHS-OIG Report

National Institutes for Health (NIH) officials failed to monitor EcoHealth funding awards properly and thus couldn’t fully understand the research being conducted by the nonprofit at U.S. taxpayers’ expense, according to investigators with the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS-OIG). “Despite identifying potential risks associated with research being…


DOD Awards New $3 Million Grant to EcoHealth Alliance Group Tied to Wuhan Lab

The Department of Defense (DOD) in December awarded a $3 million grant to EcoHealth Alliance Inc, the nonprofit organization that for years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic funneled money to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The DOD awarded the approximately $2,987,827.07 grant to EcoHealth beginning Dec. 12 for the purpose of “reducing the threat of viral spillover from wildlife…