Dear Debbie,

 

I refer to your email of 29 November 2021. The University will respond to
your request for the date and amounts of any grant/funding received from
the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, GAVI The Vaccine Alliance, and Pfizer
from 2018 in due course.

 

Requests for official information must be specified with due particularity
under section 12(2) of the Official Information Act. If you wish to
request information about the “details” of grants or funding received by
the University, you will need to specify what information you wish to
request. Further, if you wish to request information about grants/funding
received from subsidiaries of the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation, GAVI
The Vaccine Alliance, and Pfizer, you will need to provide the names of
the entities in question.

 

Yours sincerely,

Rebecca Ewert

General Counsel

University of Auckland

 

From: Debbie <[1][FYI request #17750 email]>
Sent: Monday, 29 November 2021 12:12 PM
To: legal <[2][email address]>
Subject: Official Information request - Grants from Bill & Melinda Gates
foundation and GAVI

 

Dear University of Auckland,

Would you please advise the date, details and amounts of any grant/funding
received from 1/ Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
2/ GAVI The Vaccine Alliance
3/ Pfizer
or their subsidiaries from 2018

Yours faithfully,

Debbie

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Dear Debbie,

 

I refer to your request of 29 November 2021, as amended on 1 December
2021, for funding received from the following entities from 2018:

 

o Bill & Melinda Gates foundation
o GAVI The Vaccine Alliance
o Pfizer (including Pfizer Australia Pty Limited and Pfizer PFE Private
Limited)
o Leaderboard
o BioNTech
o Novartis
o Microsoft Corp
o Ecolab
o Alphabet Inc
o PATH

 

Apart from the information already provided to you on 17 November 2021
concerning funding received from Pfizer Australia Pty Limited and Pfizer
PFE Private Limited, the only funding received from an entity listed above
in the requested time period is as follows:

 

$676,000 of funding was received from Novartis in relation to a research
project, that started in March 2018 and ended Dec 2019, entitled “Oncology
Clinical Trial”.

 

Yours sincerely,

Rebecca Ewert

General Counsel

University of Auckland

 

From: Debbie <[1][FOI #17750 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, 1 December 2021 11:20 AM
To: Rebecca Ewert <[2][email address]>
Subject: Re: FW: Official Information request - Grants from Bill & Melinda
Gates foundation and GAVI

 

Dear Rebecca Ewert,

Thanks for your reply. Would you please include any funding from the dates
requested from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as well as
subsidiaries/benefactors;
Leaderboard - specifically BioNTech & Novartis
Microsoft Corp
Ecolab
Alphabet Inc
PATH
GAVI

Please provide a brief title for the reason of the grants/funding between
the dates requested and I can ask for more detail of a particular
grant/funding application subsequently if needed.

Yours sincerely,

Debbie

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