FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, November 9, 2005
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2005-11-09

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 136–137 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Spirited Hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
Pandemic Flu. I testified along with Julie G., Andrew Natsios (USAID), and Paula
Dobriansky (DoS). Committee chaired by Paul Lugar. Present at Hearing were Sens.
Dodd, Biden, Obama, Sarbannes (all Dems.) They kept pushing Julie and me about “who
is in charge?” We explained that it is primarily a health issue and in this regard, Sec.
Leavitt is in charge. In the sense that the issue may involve multiple Agencies, this is
coordinated through the Homeland Security Council and Fran Townsend is in charge.
They did not like the latter and were pushing for a “Flu Czar”. We said that this was a
bad idea. There was a lot of animated back and forth.
        After the Hearing, I met with Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, President of Iceland. He
was referred to me by Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA). He is sponsoring an Icelandic
Drug Co (“Actavis”) that makes generics for HIV drugs and he wants to get Iceland
involved in helping out with global AIDS by making 3-in-1 drugs available free to some
countries and sold at minimal prices to others. He wanted my advice. I strongly
suggested that he contact PEPFAR in the form of Mark Dybul. I also suggested that he

contact “Doctors without Borders” and Bono’s people (Jamie Drummond). I will help
them out to connect. They had already approached Bill Clinton and the Clinton
Foundation, but felt that they did not really have a substantive network.