Google's charity arm, Google.org, has provided financial backing for research and studies carried out by Peter Daszak and his New York-based EcoHealth Alliance dating back to 2010, it has been revealed
Google funded research carried out by Wuhan-linked scientist Peter Daszak and his charity for more than a decade, it has been revealed.
The tech giant's charity arm, Google.org, has repeatedly provided financial backing for research and studies carried out by scandal-hit Daszak and his New York-based EcoHealth Alliance.
The financial ties, which were first reported by The National Pulse, are disclosed in various scientific studies dating back to at least 2010.
Daszak has faced intense scrutiny since it emerged that his charity previously worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology - the lab accused of being the source of the COVID-19 outbreak.
EcoHealth Alliance, which was given $39 million from the Pentagon between 2013 and 2020, has also provided funding to the Wuhan lab for its coronavirus research over the years.
The British scientist has since been removed from the COVID-19 commission looking into the origins of the pandemic after it emerged that he initially tried to gag the Wuhan lab leak theory.
It was not immediately clear how much funding Google has provided over the last decade to Daszak's EcoHealth Alliance.
DailyMail.com has contacted Google for comment about its prior funding of Daszak's charity.
A 2010 study on bat flaviviruses that lists Daszak as a co-author credits Google.org for an unspecified amount of funding
EcoHealth Alliance researchers authored a report on a 2018 study that noted it was 'made possible' by Google.org's funding
A 2010 study on bat flaviviruses that lists Daszak as a co-author credits Google.org for an unspecified amount of funding.
That study was also funded by the National Institutes of Health and the United States Agency for International Development's emerging pandemic threat program.
A study published in 2014 on henipavirus spillover into human populations also lists Daszak as a co-author.
In the acknowledgement section of the study, it says: 'Metabiota/Global Viral's role in this study was supported by Google.org, the Skoll Foundation and in particular the US Agency for
International Development; USAID's funding was made possible by the generous support of the American people through the USAID Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT program.'
Similarly, a 2015 paper on herpes lists Daszak and also credits Google.org for its support.
More recently, EcoHealth Alliance researchers authored a report on a 2018 study that looked at 'perceptions
