FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Monday, June 15, 2015
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2015-06-15

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DIARY ENTRY — Monday, June 15, 2015
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 458 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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had dinner over my house with Eric Goosby and Chris – the now
traditional sausage and rigatoni dinners that I have had with Eric, Harold Varmus, and
Gary Nabel over the years. Eric is in town for and IOM workshop. He also is seeking
my assistance in obtaining a grant from the DDCF and also NIH now that he is out of
government and pursuing global health issues. Of note, he has recently been appointed as
the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for TB.

Tom Frieden is balking at supporting the proposal for the IOM Study on lessons learned
in the Ebola response. I will be supporting the study with NIAID funds. Tom still is not
really on the same page with me about what went on during the response. He is still
fixating on have the IOM study focus on “alternative clinical trial designs” instead of the
RCT. Also, he is still against Cliff trying to extend the RCT to Guinea. Tom feels that
the Guineans will react badly to a trial and be paranoid that we are trying to kill them.
This conflicts with the fact that the WHO is already doing a ring vaccination (poor
design) study in Guinea. Anyway, conversation with Tom are still very cordial and I like
him – just disagree with him sometimes.