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Former Head of EcoHealth Alliance Sets up New Global Health Research Initiative
Peter Daszak, former president of EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) and his organization, EcoHealth Alliance, was debarred from receiving federal research funding for five years by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HHS based the debarment on evidence that Dr. Daszak and EHA:
Failed to report potentially dangerous gain-of-function experiments to the government.
Willfully violated the terms of multimillion-dollar National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants.
Ignored government oversight requests and produced required research reports late.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the official five-year debarment notice on January 17, 2025.
Following the closure of EHA, Dr. Peter Daszak and former colleagues launched a new non-profit global health initiative called nature.health.global(NHG) on April 16, 2025.
"The closure of EcoHealth Alliance follows 5 years of harassment that began early in the pandemic and involved an unprecedented series of efforts to politically target and ultimately defund a leading research organization."
NHG was created "out of the wreckage" to continue similar pandemic prevention research.
The Mission: According to its official launch announcement, nature.health.global was established to predict, prepare for, and prevent future pandemics by studying human-driven environmental changes. It also aims to protect scientists against political attacks and misinformation.
Because of the five-year U.S. government debarment, Daszak's new entity cannot receive U.S. federal research funding. Media reports highlighted that the group has operated with alternative funding structures and had not publicly disclosed its financial backers or Daszak's specific compensation.
Since its inception, Daszak has used the organization to publish wildlife coronavirus risk papers and spearhead local ecology projects, such as a Northeast U.S. tick-borne disease initiative.
Claims linking Dr. Peter Daszak's research to intentional "tick releases" or a conspiracy to spread alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) are unfounded internet rumors. Nothing to see here.
