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# Global Viral
- URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/global-viral/
- Published: 2026-07-19T16:54:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-19T16:55:24.000Z
- Author: Liam Sturgess
- Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization, Organization, #toc, Non-Profit, United States, California, Research, Think Tank

**Global Viral**, formerly the **Global Viral Forecasting Institute (GVFI)**, is an American not-for-profit organization based in San Francisco, California. [Metabiota](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Metabiota) is its for-profit sister company.[\[1\]](#fn1)

## History

The Global Viral Forecasting Institute was founded in 2007 by Nathan Wolfe.[\[2\]](#fn2) It received seed funding from Google and the Skoll Foundation in 2008.[\[3\]](#fn3)

## Organization

| Name               | Position                                    | Notes                                                                      |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Nathan Wolfe       | Founder                                     | [Metabiota](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/Metabiota)               |
| Daniel Bausch      | Partner                                     | Tulane University                                                          |
| Charles Chiu       | Lab partner[\[4\]](#fn4)                    | 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)[\[5\]](#fn5) | 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:[\[5:1\]](#fn5)

- 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:[\[6\]](#fn6)[\[4:1\]](#fn4)[\[5:2\]](#fn5)

- Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC)
- [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/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](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/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

## External links

- [Crunchbase](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/global-viral-forecasting-initiative)
- [Website (archived)](https://web.archive.org/web/20121013210742/http://globalviral.org/)
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%5FViral)

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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> [↩︎](#fnref1)
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/> [↩︎](#fnref2)
3. *About Global Viral.* Global Viral. Retrieved October 13, 2012, from <http://archive.today/2012.10.13-210754/http://globalviral.org/about.php> [↩︎](#fnref3)
4. *Partners.* Global Viral Forecasting Institute. Retrieved February 4, 2011, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20110204054522/http://www.gvfi.org/partners.html> [↩︎](#fnref4) [↩︎](#fnref4:1)
5. *Partners.* Global Viral Forecasting Institute. Retrieved September 20, 2008, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20080920131935/http://www.gvfi.org/partners.html> [↩︎](#fnref5) [↩︎](#fnref5:1) [↩︎](#fnref5:2)
6. *Sponsors.* Global Viral. Retrieved October 14, 2012, from <https://web.archive.org/web/20121014152811/http://globalviral.org/sponsors.php> [↩︎](#fnref6)