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Jamie Metzl, a progressive Democrat who worked for President Clinton and is a former World Health Organization expert committee member, described the culture at the NIH as having a conflict of interest due to the agency both giving and reviewing grants, and noted this led to a "clientitis" relationship with grantees like Peter Daszak.
There's a bit of an inherent conflict of interest at the NIH between being the government agency that gives grants and the government agency that reviews the grants that it has given. So certainly the...
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Jamie Metzl, a progressive Democrat who worked for President Clinton and is a former World Health Organization expert committee member, described the culture at the NIH as having a conflict of interest due to the agency both giving and reviewing grants, and noted this led to a "clientitis" relationship with grantees like Peter Daszak.
There's a bit of an inherent conflict of interest at the NIH between being the government agency that gives grants and the government agency that reviews the grants that it has given. So certainly there was an element of clientitis that we saw in the Morins email exchanges with Peter Daszak, where Peter Daszak was their guy and he was working on projects that were supported not just by the NIH, but also by USAID and the Defense Department. So these bureaucracies have some interest in protecting grantees because they have an interest in protecting themselves.