FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Friday, February 7, 2014
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2014-02-07

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DIARY ENTRY — Friday, February 7, 2014
Source: Diary Prequel, pp. 335–337 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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went to the American Society of Microbiology annual Public and
Scientific Affairs Board meeting at their headquarters on 1752 – N Street, NW.,
Washington, DC. I do this every year and update the group on activities of NIH and
NIAID. As usua,l my presentation was extremely well received by the group. These are
people who are great supporters of me and my role as the director of and NIAID.

however, Francis shunned him. Issue is that John wrote into the report language of the
NIH appropriations that we should have a “strategic plan” and Francis refuses to do a top
down plan. Francis is completely correct on this, but he should compromise and agree on
a “communications plan” since that is all the Committee wants is a document to refer
constituents to when they inquire about what NIH is doing and why.