---
type: Person
title: David Kessler
description: Person appearing in 14 documents.
tags:
  - person
  - hhs
organization: hhs
document_count: 14
first_seen: "2021-07-12T11:26:00"
last_seen: "2022-08-01T18:53:00"
aliases:
  - David
  - David A Kessler
  - David Kessler
  - david.kessler@hhs.gov
sources:
  - { 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 }
generated: { by: randpaul-corpus-pipeline/1.0, at: "2026-08-01T12:42:27Z" }
status: stable
---

Appears in the COVID-19 subpoena corpus.

# Activity

- **Documents:** 14 (sent/authored 3, received 11)
- **Active:** 2021-07-12 to 2022-08-01
- **Organization:** [hhs](/organizations/hhs.md)
- **Appears as:** `David`, `David A Kessler`, `David Kessler`, `david.kessler@hhs.gov`

# Correspondents

| Person | Messages | First | Last |
|---|---:|---|---|
| [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) | 7 | 2021-07-12 | 2022-08-01 |
| [Peter Staley](/people/peter-staley.md) | 4 | 2021-10-11 | 2021-10-11 |
| [Jeffrey Zients](/people/jeffrey-zients.md) | 2 | 2021-10-11 | 2021-10-11 |
| David Barr | 1 | 2021-08-11 | 2021-08-11 |
| [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) | 1 | 2021-07-12 | 2021-07-12 |
| [James Krellenstein](/people/james-krellenstein.md) | 1 | 2021-10-11 | 2021-10-11 |
| Jeremy Konyndyk | 1 | 2021-10-11 | 2021-10-11 |
| [John Mascola](/people/john-mascola.md) | 1 | 2021-07-12 | 2021-07-12 |
| Jonathan Selib | 1 | 2021-07-12 | 2021-07-12 |
| Natalie.h.quillian | 1 | 2021-10-11 | 2021-10-11 |
| [Peter Marks](/people/peter-marks.md) | 1 | 2022-07-29 | 2022-07-29 |
| [Robert Califf](/people/robert-califf.md) | 1 | 2022-07-29 | 2022-07-29 |
| Tamieka Waterstraat | 1 | 2021-07-12 | 2021-07-12 |
| Thomas R Kirby | 1 | 2021-07-12 | 2021-07-12 |
| [Vivek Murthy](/people/vivek-murthy.md) | 1 | 2021-09-20 | 2021-09-20 |

# Topics

* [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 11 documents
* [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 4 documents
* [Media strategy and public messaging](/topics/media-messaging.md) - 2 documents
* [Congressional oversight](/topics/congressional-oversight.md) - 1 documents
* [WHO and international investigation](/topics/who-international.md) - 1 documents

# Statement timeline

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

* **2021-07-12** ([intelligence_community](/topics/intelligence-community.md), asserts): "Looping in Jon Selib and Mikael Dolsten from Pfizer on this Email and M Here is what I have as a working agenda for the 5pm Please edit Tamieka - please Attach to invite after we have edits Feel fee Welcome/Agenda David Kessler Introductory Comments -Pfizer…" [^fauci_intel]
* **2021-10-11** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "Peter How many mrna doses to you want delivered to l/lmic countries by end of 2022 beyond what we and covax/au have already contracted for?" [^fauci_diary]

# Sources

[^fauci_diary]: [fauci_diary](/sources/fauci-diary.md)
[^fauci_intel]: [fauci_intel](/sources/fauci-intel.md)