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> After being promoted to Vice President of EcoHealth Alliance, Dr. Huff had access to information about the organization’s finances. He learned that EcoHealth was heavily dependent on government contracts to remain solvent and that cash flow was often tight. He also observed first-hand that EcoHealth engaged in minor fraud by overbilling time on contracts and double-dipping on some contracts between government agencies and provide donors.
> Dr. Huff was routinely involved in meetings and informal discussions during which gain-of- function research was discussed.
> During direct participation in the USAID PREDICT program, Dr. Huff saw first-hand that EcoHealth failed to pay adequate attention to biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management. The organization did not perform proper oversight of foreign laboratories at which research funded by EcoHealth took place. Dr. Huff expressed his concerns regularly and they were routinely dismissed by Daszak and other EcoHealth staff.
> Dr. Huff met Dr. Shi Zhengli and Dr. Ralph Baric and attended presentations at which they discussed their work on the design and engineering of SARS-CoV-2 and the use of humanized mice in their experiments.
> Dr. Huff was involved in the creation of a slide deck presented to In-Q-Tel which included the use of USAID PREDICT funding to collect coronavirus samples from bats all over the world, to analyze these viruses to identify their most dangerous features to humans, and then create chimeras to test on humanized mice.