Dr. Andrew Huff

And I was doing that type of work at the National Laboratory.

I continued that work funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency when I was at Equal Alliance.

That's where the first big check comes from for $4.6 million.

And once I'm promoted and I'm looking at this USAID predict program, I decided to go dig into the literature and all the technical reports to see what this is and how it actually works.

And I read through this phone book of material.

And I assess that it's a giant boondoggle.

There's no way that they're going to be able to predict or forecast infectious diseases.

They weren't collecting enough samples globally or in the countries where they were collecting them.

They weren't collecting the data on a systematic and routine basis, which is one of the fundamental core concepts in biosurveillance.

I make the bold claim that I'm probably one of the world's leading experts in the area.

I'm one of the few people to actually predict and forecast infectious diseases before they've occurred.

And I've done peer-reviewed literature.

And I was actually so bold when I built my models and tested them.

I actually had this published in, I think it was the Guardian newspaper, the New York Post, before the outbreak hit.

And this was the Zika.

You remember Zika virus?

Very well, yeah.

I was working at EcoHealth Alliance.

One of the models that I developed actually forecasted the amount of Zika virus that we'd receive in the United States and where specifically.

And I published that before it happened.