Dr. Andrew Huff

That's perfectly accurate.

And thank you for having me.

This is sort of like a dream of mine.

shortly after I was working there.

So I was hired as a senior scientist to take over a, well, I learned after the fact, I sort of lied to, but it was a failing department that was doing predictive forecasting and analytics.

And after I brought in all that money from the Department of Defense, I actually sort of saved EcoHealth Alliance.

It was financially on the rocks.

That $4 million really transformed the organization.

And with that and my expertise in technology, I was actually improving the systems and technology company-wide.

Peter Daszak, who is the president or CEO of Equal Health Alliance, liked everything that I was doing.

He was very impressed.

Oh, absolutely.

And we'll get to that.

So Peter promotes me to vice president.

And then I started attending executive meetings and I get involved in all the different other aspects of the company or at least visibility to what's going on.

The main driver of funding of Equal Health Alliance was from this program called Predict.

And Predict was funded by USAID to go out and conduct global surveillance of infectious diseases to predict and forecast emerging pandemics.

At least that's what they were telling everyone they were going to do.

No, and it seemed completely virtuous.

And I had actually been doing that type of research my entire career, at least as a scientist and engineer.