FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, September 19, 2007
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2007-09-19

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 159–160 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Over the past few days, literally hundreds of e-mails and letters coming
in regarding Lasker Award from friends, colleagues, people I knew years ago such as
nurses from H-4 ward at NY Hospital, White house people, congressmen, etc.
    Today had meeting at White House (EEOB-428) run by NSC (Mike Falan) and HSC
(Rajeev Venkayya) to discuss updating and broadening the vision of the NSC/HSC TB

White Paper that we (NIAID) had contributed to a couple of months ago when we
introduced our Research Agenda for MDR/XDR-TB. Beautiful Fall day (crisp and
sunny). Meeting from 9:00 to 11:00 AM followed by briefing from Tachi Yamada
(Gates Foundation) who came from Seattle to present to us (USG) out of courtesy the
new $282 million Gates TB initiative. In preparation for this I alerted Rajeev that we
really needed to coordinate the many USG activities on TB and present it in a vision
format so that the POTUS could claim the legacy of having addressed AIDS (PEPFAR),
malaria (President’s Malaria Initiative – PMI) and now TB. It would be the 3rd leg in the
stool of his Global Diplomacy program. Rajeev agreed – unfortunately, he will be
leaving government on Sept. 26. It was great working with him over the past few years.
His background is that he trained as an MD at Michigan and was actually Chief Medical
Resident when Tachi was Chairman of Medicine at Michigan. In any event, we will
update and sharpen our USG White Paper.