--- type: Person title: Anthony S. Fauci description: "Director, NIAID (1984-2022)" tags: - person - niaid organization: niaid document_count: 2769 first_seen: "2000-02-05T00:00:00" last_seen: "2025-08-25T00:00:00" aliases: - A.S. Fauci - af10r@nih.gov - Afauci - afauci@niaid.nih.gov - Anthony Fauci - Anthony S Fauci - Anthony S. Fauci - anthony.fauci@nih.gov - Dr. Fauci - Fauci - Tony Fauci sources: - { id: baric_ti, resource: /sources/baric-ti.md, title: Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-23 } - { id: diary_prequel, resource: /sources/diary-prequel.md, title: Diary Prequel Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-27 } - { id: fauci_awards, resource: /sources/fauci-awards.md, title: Fauci Awards Package (Redacted), author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_diary, resource: /sources/fauci-diary.md, title: Tony's Diary Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-24 } - { id: fauci_intel, resource: /sources/fauci-intel.md, title: Fauci Intelligence Community Release, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-06-11 } - { id: gates, resource: /sources/gates.md, title: Gates Package, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release", last_modified: 2026-07-31 } - { id: reading_room, resource: /sources/reading-room.md, title: Reading Room Production, author: "process:senate-hsgac-release" } generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" } status: stable --- Director, NIAID (1984-2022) # Activity - **Documents:** 2769 (sent/authored 2420, received 353) - **Active:** 2000-02-05 to 2025-08-25 - **Organization:** [niaid](/organizations/niaid.md) - **Appears as:** `A.S. Fauci`, `af10r@nih.gov`, `Afauci`, `afauci@niaid.nih.gov`, `Anthony Fauci`, `Anthony S Fauci`, `Anthony S. Fauci`, `anthony.fauci@nih.gov`, `Dr. Fauci`, `Fauci`, `Tony Fauci` # Correspondents | Person | Messages | First | Last | |---|---:|---|---| | [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) | 131 | 2010-02-11 | 2022-09-27 | | [Lawrence A. Tabak](/people/lawrence-a-tabak.md) | 43 | 2018-05-25 | 2022-07-29 | | [Patricia Conrad](/people/patricia-conrad.md) | 37 | 2009-12-16 | 2022-03-23 | | [Gretchen Wood](/people/gretchen-wood.md) | 23 | 2013-11-01 | 2013-11-30 | | [Holli Beckerman Jaffe](/people/holli-beckerman-jaffe.md) | 17 | 2021-01-30 | 2021-03-04 | | [Gregory K. Folkers](/people/gregory-k-folkers.md) | 15 | 2009-12-16 | 2021-08-23 | | [Michael Kurilla](/people/michael-kurilla.md) | 13 | 2009-12-16 | 2014-10-16 | | [Bill Gates](/people/bill-gates.md) | 11 | 2020-04-22 | 2022-01-08 | | [M.D Barton Haynes](/people/m-d-barton-haynes.md) | 11 | 2018-10-10 | 2020-11-15 | | [Richard Klausner](/people/richard-klausner.md) | 11 | 2003-10-24 | 2003-10-25 | | [John J](/people/john-j.md) | 10 | 2018-05-25 | 2018-05-25 | | [John Mascola](/people/john-mascola.md) | 10 | 2013-11-30 | 2021-03-01 | | [Martin S](/people/martin-s.md) | 10 | 2018-05-25 | 2018-05-25 | | [Barney Graham](/people/barney-graham.md) | 8 | 2018-05-28 | 2018-05-28 | | [David Kessler](/people/david-kessler.md) | 7 | 2021-07-12 | 2022-08-01 | # Topics * [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 756 documents * [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 693 documents * [Media strategy and public messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md) - 512 documents * [Awards, honoraria and recognition](/topics/awards-honoraria.md) - 260 documents * [WHO and international investigation](/topics/who-international.md) - 256 documents * [Gates Foundation involvement](/topics/gates-foundation.md) - 249 documents * [Congressional oversight](/topics/congressional-oversight.md) - 241 documents * [Testing and surveillance](/topics/testing-surveillance.md) - 130 documents * [Masks, lockdowns and NPIs](/topics/npi-masks.md) - 124 documents * [Therapeutics and treatments](/topics/treatments.md) - 120 documents # Statement timeline What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations. * **2001-01-26** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Virtually every important government official (the entire Cabinet, military leaders, etc) was there." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-03** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "After the meeting he called me into his office to speak in private (Bob Woods (Chief of Staff) and Brett Davis (Special Assistant to the Secretary) were there." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-04** ([media_messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md), asserts): "April 4, 2001 - I was asked to prepare talking points on AIDS for Secretary." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-04** ([media_messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md), asserts): "Thompson's staff was so impressed with 3ome comments. the talking points that they mentioned that Thompson wanted me to accompany his staff to the White House the next day to develop a white paper for Powel and Thompson to use in upcoming meeting with the…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-08** ([media_messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md), asserts): "It was clear that much of the paper included material from my talking points for Thompson (see above)." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "We will solicit letters of intent from governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), especially faith-based groups, that describe plans to implement one of more of our core models in local areas. ?" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "We will require demonstration of local leadership and adherence to international standards of financial accountability and transparency." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "We are committed to a policy of promoting intellectual property protection, including for pharmaceutical patents, because of its critical role in the rapid innovation, development, and commercialization of effective and safe drug therapies and vaccines." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Financial incentives are needed to develop new medications." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "With more than 50 years of experience with health projects and a proven institutional capacity to manage large financial transactions, the World Bank should serve as the fiscal agent for the Fund." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([who_international](/topics/who-international.md), asserts): "A small Executive Secretariat housed at the Bank and jointly staffed by the Bank, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization would undertake the day-to-day management of the trust fund, including soliciting grant proposals." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "The Council would fully control all fund decisions, including determining programmatic allocations, operational rules and procedures, policies and strategies, approving financial plans and work programs, and attracting additional donations." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Much like a university endowment, the fund would have a two-tiered financial structure." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Others might want help with such programs plus training for physicians, lab workers, nurses, community health volunteers, and pharmacists." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), reports): "April 11, 2001 - Attached below is what is to be the final document: Draft Privileged and Confidential For Official Use Only Infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, are ravaging developing nations, causing 25 percent of all deaths…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "We will give preference to comprehensive plans that involve governments and civil society working together. • We will link our efforts in health to expanded programs in the areas of education and nutrition in an international parallel to the Administration's…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Financial incentives are needed to develop new medications." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "With more than 50 years of experience with health projects and a proven institutional capacity to manage large financial transactions, the World Bank should serve as the fiscal agent for the Fund." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([who_international](/topics/who-international.md), asserts): "A small Executive Secretariat housed at the Bank and jointly staffed by the Bank, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization would undertake the day-to-day management of the trust fund, including soliciting grant proposals." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "The Council would fully control all fund decisions, including determining programmatic allocations, operational rules and procedures, policies and strategies, approving financial plans and work programs, and attracting additional donations." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Much like a university endowment, the fund would have a two-tiered financial structure." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Others might want help with such programs plus training for physicians, lab workers, nurses, community health volunteers, and pharmacists." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-11** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Goals • Prevent new infections, treat those already afflicted, build infrastructure for health care and disease control, and develop and train medical personnel. • Identify the needs of affected areas and allow communities themselves to develop an…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "What really, truely, is the statistically valid efficacy of HAART? - In terms of the pentultimate concern that I believe (I hope) is the bottom line for all sides --- SAVING LIVES --- what would be the impact of a massive spending commitment aimed at: -…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "In other words, if a vial of measles vaccine contains 10 child doses, if should be vaccum sealed to a slab of cardboard on which are 10 autodestruct syringes." [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "How in the world can ANY humanitarian, medical or UN agency POSSIBLY justify distributing vaccines in countries with greater than 5% HIV rates without attaching enough autodestruct syringes to ensure that EVERY SINGLE CHILD receives a sterile injection?" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "Many believe it has little to do with prevention programs or drug access, and everything to do with male/female power balance issues and female access to the cash economy.) Jon Mann for ages had a mantra: if a prevention effort works, why? and why isn't it…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "Remember when NIAID decided to can Phase 3 vaccine studies?" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "The reasons were not so much about the likelihood the vaccines would work (nobody thought they would), but concerns that people who received the vaccines would then put themselves and their partners at higher risk, based on the assumption that they were at…" [^diary_prequel] * **2001-04-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "NIH and CDC have spent loads of money trying to figure out how to counsel vaccine volunteers, what to say about safe sex, etc." [^diary_prequel] # Sources [^baric_ti]: [baric_ti](/sources/baric-ti.md) [^diary_prequel]: [diary_prequel](/sources/diary-prequel.md) [^fauci_awards]: [fauci_awards](/sources/fauci-awards.md) [^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md) [^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md) [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md)