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Global Viral

Global Viral, formerly the Global Viral Forecasting Institute (GVFI), is an American not-for-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. Metabiota is its for-profit sister company.[1]

History

The Global Viral Forecasting Institute was founded in 2007 by Nathan Wolfe.[2] It received seed funding from Google and the Skoll Foundation in 2008.[3]

Organization

Name Position Notes
Nathan Wolfe Founder Metabiota
Daniel Bausch Partner Tulane University
Charles Chiu Lab partner[4] Center for Next-Gen Precision Diagnostics
Peter Daszak Partner (United States) Consortium for Conservation Medicine
Eric Delwart Lab partner Blood Systems Research Institute (BSRI)
Joseph DeRisi Lab partner University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
Jonathan Epstein Partner (China, United States)[5] Consortium for Conservation Medicine
Tony Goldberg Lab partner University of Wisconsin-Madison
Christopher Golden Partner University of California, Berkeley
Tom Hughes Partner (China) Consortium for Conservation Medicine
Magdalena Hurtado Partner University of New Mexico
Fabian Leendertz Lab partner Robert Koch Institute
Ian Lipkin Lab partner Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Don Melnick Partner Columbia University
Martine Peeters Lab partner Research Institute for Development
Oliver Pybus Lab partner University of Oxford
Forest Rohwer Lab partner San Diego State University
Peter Simmonds Lab partner University of Edinburgh
Thomas Smith Partner University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
William Switzer Lab partner National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention (NCHHSTP)
Linfa Wang Lab partner Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Partners

Organizations partnered with Global Viral include:[5:1]

  • Care and Health Program (CHP)
  • Columbia University
  • Consortium for Conservation Medicine
  • East China Normal University (ECNU)
  • Guangdong Entomological Institute
  • Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Johns Hopkins Cameroon Program
  • Kinshasa School of Public Health
  • Mahosot Hospital
  • National Public Health Laboratory Malaysia
  • South China Primate Research & Development Center
  • Tulane University
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • University of New Mexico

Funding

Sponsors of Global Viral include:[6][4:1][5:2]

  • Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Fogarty International Center (FIC)
  • Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System (GEIS)
  • Google
  • Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine
  • National Geographic Society
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Naval Health Research Center (NHRC)
  • Skoll Foundation
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
  • Wellcome Trust
  • W.W. Smith Charitable Trust

  1. Hope, B. (2015, May 20). Virus Hunter Metabiota Finds Niche in Epidemic Research. Wall Street Journal. http://archive.today/2021.12.23-055051/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/virus-hunter-metabiota-finds-niche-in-epidemic-research-1432155621 ↩︎

  2. Walsh, B. (2011, October 28). Virus Hunter: How One Scientist Is Preventing the Next Pandemic. Time. https://web.archive.org/web/20221002023926/https://time.com/3782263/virus-hunter-how-one-scientist-is-preventing-the-next-pandemic/ ↩︎

  3. About Global Viral. Global Viral. Retrieved October 13, 2012, from http://archive.today/2012.10.13-210754/http://globalviral.org/about.php ↩︎

  4. Partners. Global Viral Forecasting Institute. Retrieved February 4, 2011, from https://web.archive.org/web/20110204054522/http://www.gvfi.org/partners.html ↩︎ ↩︎

  5. Partners. Global Viral Forecasting Institute. Retrieved September 20, 2008, from https://web.archive.org/web/20080920131935/http://www.gvfi.org/partners.html ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  6. Sponsors. Global Viral. Retrieved October 14, 2012, from https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152811/http://globalviral.org/sponsors.php ↩︎