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|wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcoHealth_Alliance
|website=https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/
|constitutes=
|interests=viruses
|leaders=Peter Daszak
|logo=
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|start=1971
|abbreviation=EHA
|founders=Gerald Durrell
|headquarters=Hudson Yards, New York City
}}'''EcoHealth Alliance'''

==Coronavirus research==
After discussion emerged as to the safety of gain-of-function research into viruses by genetic modification of natural viruses, [[Peter Daszak]] stated that such research "move[d] this virus from a candidate emerging pathogen to a clear and present danger". Daszak stated that EcoHealth Alliance had spent about $100,000 annually to collaborate with Wuhan researchers.<ref>https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-60-minutes-coronavirus-peter-daszak-ecohealth-alliance_n_5eb90fd7c5b6d34558af9ce4</ref> 

===NIH Funding===
In 2014, the NIH gave EcoHealth Alliance a grant of $3.4 (or $3.7?)<ref>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/paid-for-the-damn-virus-thats-killing-us-giuliani-rips-fauci-over-grants-to-wuhan-laboratory</ref><ref>https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/04/27/exclusive-federal-health-officials-investigating-wuhan-lab-suspected-of-leaking-coronavirus-taxpayer-grants-to-lab/</ref> for the study of coronaviruses in bats, to be disbursed over 6 years.

====Withdrawal====
In April 2020 the [[NIH]] ordered EcoHealth Alliance to cease spending the remaining $369,819 from its current NIH grant due to their research relationship with the [[Wuhan Institute of Virology]]. In May 2020, a group of 77 US Nobel Laureates in Science wrote an open letter of protest, stating their belief "that this action sets a dangerous precedent by interfering in the conduct of science and jeopardizes public trust in the process of awarding federal funds for research."<ref>https://academeblog.org/2020/05/25/nobel-laureates-and-science-groups-demand-nih-review-decision-to-kill-coronavirus-grant/</ref>

==Staff==
“Among the policy advisors for EcoHealth Alliance are [[David Franz]], a former commander at [[Fort Detrick]], the main US government biowarfare/biodefence facility, who spoke in 2018 at the rightwing [[Hudson Institute]], and [[Thomas Geisbert]], who is doing biodefence/[[biowarfare]] work at [[Galveston]].”<ref>https://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/19392-expert-attacks-ecohealth-alliance-s-involvement-in-really-risky-bat-coronavirus-research-in-wuhan-labs</ref>

==Opinions==
Various members of EcoHealth Alliance including [[William Karesh]] (executive vice president for health and policy) have promoted the theory of the [[zoonotic]] [[origin of COVID-19]]. 
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