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title: Christina Salazar
description: "Deputy Staff Director & Chief Counsel, HSGAC"
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  - Christina Salazar
  - Salazar
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Deputy Staff Director & Chief Counsel, HSGAC

# Activity

- **Documents:** 1156 (sent/authored 545, received 611)
- **Active:** 2026-04-10 to 2026-04-10
- **Organization:** [senate_hsgac](/organizations/senate-hsgac.md)
- **Appears as:** `Christina Salazar`, `Salazar`

# Correspondents

| Person | Messages | First | Last |
|---|---:|---|---|
| [Ralph S. Baric](/people/ralph-s-baric.md) | 1104 | 2026-04-10 | 2026-04-10 |
| [David T. Lambeth III](/people/david-t-lambeth-iii.md) | 560 | 2026-04-10 | 2026-04-10 |
| [Harry Kazenoff](/people/harry-kazenoff.md) | 560 | 2026-04-10 | 2026-04-10 |
| [William Henderson](/people/william-henderson.md) | 557 | 2026-04-10 | 2026-04-10 |
| [Clark Ervin](/people/clark-ervin.md) | 554 | 2026-04-10 | 2026-04-10 |
| [Jake Greenberg](/people/jake-greenberg.md) | 546 | 2026-04-10 | 2026-04-10 |

# Topics

* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 36 documents
* [Gain-of-function research](/topics/gain-of-function.md) - 33 documents
* [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 29 documents
* [Wuhan Institute of Virology collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md) - 26 documents
* [Furin cleavage site and molecular features](/topics/molecular-features.md) - 19 documents
* [Natural origin / zoonotic spillover](/topics/natural-origin.md) - 18 documents
* [Proximal Origin paper](/topics/proximal-origin.md) - 12 documents
* [EcoHealth Alliance funding and grants](/topics/ecohealth-funding.md) - 11 documents
* [Lab-leak / accidental release hypothesis](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md) - 9 documents
* [Congressional oversight](/topics/congressional-oversight.md) - 8 documents

# Statement timeline

What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations.

* **2026-04-10** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "But we haven't had a chance to engage directly, but your team has provided us documents, and we appreciate that." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([lab_leak_origin](/topics/lab-leak-origin.md), asserts): "The other day DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com I accidentally went on Twitter, and there was a debate on Twitter again over whether it was a lab leak or not, renewed debate." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([congressional_oversight](/topics/congressional-oversight.md), asserts): "And I wanted to just start -- I know this may be a loaded question, but is there anything from that testimony that you would like to, off the bat, clarify or generally -- and we may talk about that today, but I just wanted to see if there was any portions of…" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "Did you already have a vaccine developed with them, or was it still --" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "And the vaccine, the MERS vaccine, is that the CisVax [sic] vaccine that I saw in one of your grant proposals, was called CisVax?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([treatments](/topics/treatments.md), asserts): "And it sounds like, the notes that I have -- and again, if you don't recall this, just let me know -- it appears that you may have mentioned that you had some confidentiality issue with remdesivir, within Nature Communications." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([foia_transparency](/topics/foia-transparency.md), asserts): "So that was a topic of, and I'm sure you've read the FOIAs about you since, a topic of great discussion." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([gain_of_function](/topics/gain-of-function.md), asserts): "One of the calendar invites that we have says that the purpose of the discussion, for you coming in, was to discuss basic research that is gain-of-function, that will further understanding of coronaviruses and corona vaccine development, and two, to address…" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "But in the agenda items that we've seen from other officials, that's the agenda that was on there." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([congressional_oversight](/topics/congressional-oversight.md), asserts): "But from your House testimony it sounded like that wasn't necessarily what was discussed." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([gain_of_function](/topics/gain-of-function.md), questions): "And could you tell us a little bit about, at the time, what that process was like, in terms of the P3CO process?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([foia_transparency](/topics/foia-transparency.md), asserts): "I mean, we see -- and again, these have been FOIA'd -- there's a spur of sending out that paper, within hours, to multiple different people." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([foia_transparency](/topics/foia-transparency.md), asserts): "I'm going to read you -- again, this has been FOIA'd -- he sent, in a Slack message, and I'm just going to read it out loud." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([china_relations](/topics/china-relations.md), questions): "Shi be arrested, because she didn't have the paper approved by the Chinese government?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([wiv_collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md), asserts): "And so we have a document that shows that Peter Daszak asked for that, for Zhengli Shi to acknowledge that grant back in 2015." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([gain_of_function](/topics/gain-of-function.md), questions): "I don't want to misstate it -- I mean, he said, "Does USAID fund gain-of-function research?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([gain_of_function](/topics/gain-of-function.md), denies): "We have no evidence that USAID has funded gain-of-function research, and we certainly have not authorized gain-of-function research." Then Senator Paul talked about the paper, and her response was that she just said, unequivocally, that USAID has not…" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([gain_of_function](/topics/gain-of-function.md), questions): "Was it because there was a concern that it could be perceived that there was gain-of-function work occurring after the pause?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([gain_of_function](/topics/gain-of-function.md), questions): "And so was it NIH's position that anything that was created prior to the pause, you could do any type of work after the pause and it wouldn't be considered gain-of-function?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "We've had this conversation with -- and this isn't on you, but, you know, people like to talk about it like it's classified." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "We've looked at NARA documents that are publicly available online that mention the ODNI DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Biological Science Expert Group." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "But we will be going through a classification review of that transcript, and it's not classified, so I just want to flag that." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([foia_transparency](/topics/foia-transparency.md), asserts): "I mean, I find it very odd that there's no record, because we have records that have been FOIA'd." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), asserts): "There's some that believe that you may have been a reviewer of Proximal Origins." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), asserts): "You were not a reviewer of Proximal Origins." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([proximal_origin](/topics/proximal-origin.md), asserts): "Because you were on the call, which it seems like the perception of the folks from Proximal Origins is that whoever sent that email must have heard the deliberation on that call in order to have written that email." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([natural_origin](/topics/natural-origin.md), questions): "Would your opinion change if you knew that they WIV was conducting work on pangolin viruses around 2019, 2018?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "So I've seen SADS come up a lot when people are talking about pan-corona vaccines." [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([wiv_collaboration](/topics/wiv-collaboration.md), questions): "And did WIV, that you know of, have that, or were they working on that?" [^baric_ti]
* **2026-04-10** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), questions): "Are you aware of any association between Fang Li and Yusen Zhou, Z-H-O-U?" [^baric_ti]

# Sources

[^baric_ti]: [baric_ti](/sources/baric-ti.md)