--- type: Person title: Robert Eiss description: Person appearing in 242 documents. tags: - person - nih organization: nih document_count: 242 first_seen: "2013-09-26T22:17:00" last_seen: "2024-10-11T12:20:00" aliases: - jjj@mail.nih.gov - Robert Eiss sources: - { 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 --- Appears in the COVID-19 subpoena corpus. # Activity - **Documents:** 242 (sent/authored 62, received 180) - **Active:** 2013-09-26 to 2024-10-11 - **Organization:** [nih](/organizations/nih.md) - **Appears as:** `jjj@mail.nih.gov`, `Robert Eiss` # Correspondents | Person | Messages | First | Last | |---|---:|---|---| | [Francis S. Collins](/people/francis-s-collins.md) | 61 | 2013-09-26 | 2021-12-09 | | [Sara Selgrade](/people/sara-selgrade.md) | 40 | 2023-03-08 | 2024-07-16 | | [Gray Handley](/people/gray-handley.md) | 28 | 2013-09-26 | 2013-11-25 | | [Gretchen Wood](/people/gretchen-wood.md) | 28 | 2013-11-01 | 2015-12-07 | | [Chase Crawford](/people/chase-crawford.md) | 14 | 2024-09-25 | 2024-10-11 | | [Lawrence A. Tabak](/people/lawrence-a-tabak.md) | 14 | 2018-05-25 | 2018-05-26 | | [Daozhong Jin](/people/daozhong-jin.md) | 10 | 2013-09-27 | 2013-11-25 | | [Ian Simon](/people/ian-simon.md) | 10 | 2021-12-09 | 2021-12-13 | | [Gregory K. Folkers](/people/gregory-k-folkers.md) | 9 | 2013-11-05 | 2021-12-09 | | [Hillery Harvey](/people/hillery-harvey.md) | 9 | 2013-11-05 | 2013-11-05 | | [Patricia Conrad](/people/patricia-conrad.md) | 9 | 2013-11-05 | 2021-12-13 | | [Melanie Bacon](/people/melanie-bacon.md) | 8 | 2013-09-27 | 2013-09-27 | | [Anthony S. Fauci](/people/anthony-s-fauci.md) | 7 | 2018-05-25 | 2021-12-09 | | [Niranjan Bose](/people/niranjan-bose.md) | 7 | 2017-05-18 | 2017-05-18 | | [John Burklow](/people/john-burklow.md) | 5 | 2013-11-05 | 2017-04-19 | # Topics * [Gates Foundation involvement](/topics/gates-foundation.md) - 190 documents * [Awards, honoraria and recognition](/topics/awards-honoraria.md) - 38 documents * [WHO and international investigation](/topics/who-international.md) - 28 documents * [Congressional oversight](/topics/congressional-oversight.md) - 25 documents * [Intelligence community assessments](/topics/intelligence-community.md) - 24 documents * [Vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md) - 22 documents * [Gain-of-function research](/topics/gain-of-function.md) - 20 documents * [Proximal Origin paper](/topics/proximal-origin.md) - 13 documents * [EcoHealth Alliance funding and grants](/topics/ecohealth-funding.md) - 12 documents * [Public comments and policy process](/topics/public-comments-policy.md) - 9 documents # Statement timeline What this person is recorded saying, in date order, quoted verbatim with page citations. * **2013-09-27** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), reports): "Dear Daozhong, Attached is Dr Collins' note on the discussion roundtable with Bill Gates that Dr Tabak and Dr Hudson will join" [^gates] * **2013-09-27** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), questions): "Subject: FW: October 7 visit of Bill Gates Importance: High Hi Melanie, I hope things are well Dr Collins will ask Eric Goosby to say a few words about the implementation science partnership, during the roundtable discussion with Bill Gates on Oct 7 I'm…" [^gates] * **2013-09-27** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), questions): "Hi Melanie, I hope things are well Dr Collins will ask Eric Goosby to say a few words about the implementation science partnership, during the roundtable discussion with Bill Gates on Oct 7 I'm staffing Dr Collins for this May I ask, is there any information…" [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "It's well done http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dacd1f84-4 1 bf-11e3-b064-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2je9a7qXd November 1, 2013 11:05 am ° ° ° ° ° An exclusive interview with Bill Gates By Richard Waters The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft…" [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "But eradicating disease just might. << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) >> ©Amanda Friedman Gates photographed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle in September Bill Gates describes himself as a technocrat." [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "But asked whether giving the planet an internet connection is more important than finding a vaccination for malaria, the co-founder of Microsoft and world's second-richest man does not hide his irritation: "As a priority?" [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "It's a joke." Then, slipping back into the sarcasm that often breaks through when he is at his most engaged, he adds: "Take this malaria vaccine, [this] weird thing that I'm thinking of." [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), questions): "Hmm, which is more important, connectivity or malaria vaccine?" [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "I don't." At 58, Bill Gates has lost none of the impatience or intellectual passion he was known for in his youth." [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which he set up with his wife in 1997 and where he has been working since leaving his full-time role at Microsoft five years ago, gives away nearly $4bn a year." [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Gates Foundation project Partnering with Coca-Cola and Ghana's health services << OLE Object: Picture (Device Independent Bitmap) >> Coca-Cola is found in the remotest places on the planet." [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "The foundation is working with the multinational beverage company to use their supply chain expertise to help Ghana's health service improve delivery of vaccines to the most difficult-to-access patients, including more efficient management of refrigeration…" [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "This time around, though, Bill Gates the CEO has had to take a back seat to a less familiar persona: Bill Gates the diplomat." [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "When the Gates Foundation made polio eradication a priority five years ago, the global anti-polio effort was running into the sand." [^gates] * **2013-11-13** ([vaccines](/topics/vaccines.md), asserts): "More than 10 years of progress had given way, at around the turn of the millennium, to a stalemate as vaccination efforts in the countries still harbouring the disease failed to reach the coverage levels needed to push it into extinction." [^gates] * **2015-11-20** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "In my view, scheduling an April date for the NIH-BMGF workshop that accommodates Bill's travel to DC is a preferred option to organizing a July date, when he would not be available I look forward to your thoughts If we respond positively, I'll do a quick…" [^gates] * **2015-12-07** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Bill Gates is able to join the NIH-BMGF workshop on April 18, to coincide with a planned trip to DC." [^gates] * **2016-04-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Hi Ayanna Just to note that I am assembling the brief for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation dinner event and workshop, including remarks, preparation for the panel Dr Collins will moderate, final participant list etc." [^gates] * **2016-04-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Gates' vehicle will pull in to the driveway. 8:25 am Bill Gates arrives at Building 35, enters the building, and is welcomed by Dr." [^gates] * **2016-04-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Collins will meet Bill Gates after he exits the car and steps inside of the building." [^gates] * **2016-04-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Gates is early). 8:27 am Bill Gates is escorted by Dr." [^gates] * **2016-04-13** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Collins seated at front left table. 12:30 pm Bill Gates is escorted, by Dr." [^gates] * **2017-04-19** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Dear John and Greg, The Gates Foundation would like to arrange a filming of Bill at the VRC, during his visit on June 2 to participate in the annual NIH-BMGF workshop (see Chris Karp's note below)." [^gates] * **2017-05-18** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "As you know, this will be the fourth annual BMGF-NIH workshop to discuss progress of joint projects and opportunities for cooperation, based on emerging scientific opportunities and public health developments." [^gates] * **2017-05-18** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "It will be the second that Bill Gates has joined." [^gates] * **2018-05-25** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "I'm reviewing the list against the projects supported by the NIH-BMGF working groups (incl IAP, HPV trials) and can respond shortly Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone." [^gates] * **2018-05-25** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "Ce: Fauci, Anthony (NIH/NIAID) [E] Wolinetz, Carrie (NIH/OD) [E] Subject: Re: Need info on BMGF -- Urgent od.nih.gov>; Glass, Roger (NIH/FIC) [E] Hie mail. nih.gov> niaid.nih.gov>; Tabak, Lawrence (NIH/OD) [E] nih.gov>; nih.gov>; Lauer, Michael (NIH/OD) [E]…" [^gates] * **2018-05-25** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "rie > wrote: I'm reviewing the list against the projects supported by the NIH-BMGF working groups (incl IAP, HPV trials) and can respond shortly Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone." [^gates] * **2018-05-25** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "(NIH/NIAID) [€]" , "Schwetz, Tara (NIH/NIAID) [E]" <{E@ nih.gov> Subject: RE: Need info on BMGF -- Urgent Hi Larry, In reviewing the spreadsheet and links, here are two additions: « As Francis notes, NCI and the Gates Foundation are…" [^gates] * **2018-05-25** ([gates_foundation](/topics/gates-foundation.md), asserts): "The Gates Foundation commitment is $20 million. « NIH and the Gates Foundation also are co-supporting an African Post-Doctoral Training Initiative (APTI) within the intramural program." [^gates] # Sources [^gates]: [gates](/sources/gates.md) [^reading_room]: [reading_room](/sources/reading-room.md)