Most of the health material in the archive is scattered. This thread is not. It is a single document lineage — the Nexus Centre for peace and health — traceable through named drafts, named revisions and named staff, from concept to convening.
Document text is from a PII-redacted compilation covering 94.1% of released documents. Quotations should be checked against the linked original.
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August 2012: The Concept
On 2 August 2012, IPI’s Walter Kemp sent his director a document. "Terje, Please find attached the concept, as discussed." Copied: Francesco Mancini.
Within a day Terje Rød-Larsen forwarded it to Epstein. Hours later Epstein replied: "well done, but you must treat this as highly higly confidential.. too early will ruin it."
Three revisions followed in eight days. On 17 August, Mancini reported back: "As discussed attached the revised versions. All references to t[he foundation have been deleted]" — with a concept note, a one-pager, and talking points.
When the files failed to open, an IPI staffer routed them through Epstein’s assistant: "Please find attached files for Mr. Jeffrey Epstein from Terje." He was not cc’d. He was a destination.
Walter Kemp — author
Francesco Mancini — revisions
Andrea Pfanzelter
Camilla Reksten-Monsen
Johanna Borstner
Jilla Moazami
Terje Rød-Larsen — president
Seventeen of the 75 documents are sent by Rød-Larsen himself.
Nexus Center concept.docxpeace and health rev. 2.docx, Notes on Center related to peace and health.docx, Nexus Center concept 160812 (2).docxNexus Center Concept Note August 2012.pdf, a one-pager, and Talking Points on Nexus Center.docxNexus_Center_5-yr_workplan.pdfSection 02
2013–2014: What It Became
The concept did not stay still. It was repeatedly re-pointed at whatever was current.
In February 2013 it extends to Syria, marked Importance: high. In March, a participant list and agenda. By December, revision 260813 rev. 2.
Polio, then Syria, then Ebola. The same document, the same authors, the same recipient — rewritten around whichever crisis could carry it.
FINAL_Paxlist.doc, FINAL_Concept Note and Agenda.doc — a participant list and agendaBMGF-IPI — Polio Eradication and Peace Health.pdf, plus Geneva and Luxembourg meeting notesSection 03
September 2015: The Palais des Nations
The concept became an event.
On 20 March 2015 Epstein forwarded an email headed "Preparing for pandemics," carrying 18032015_Geneva_meeting_on_pandemics_Agenda.docx.
On 11 June, IPI’s Camilla Reksten-Monsen wrote to him: "Thanks, Jeff that makes sense! How about the below?" — then a draft announcement naming Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization, and Peter Maurer, President of the ICRC, as confirmed speakers.
On 12 September 2015, "Preparing for Pandemics: Lessons Learned for More Effective Responses" convened at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Rød-Larsen gave the opening remarks. Epstein’s assistant attended on an IPI badge.
Three years and one month from a draft on a director’s desk to the UN’s European headquarters — with a private individual copied at every stage.
18032015_Geneva_meeting_on_pandemics_Agenda.docxSection 04
And Then It Stops
After September 2015 the thread ends. No further Nexus Centre draft, no follow-up conference, no continuation correspondence has been located in the released record. Searched, not located
The ordinary explanations are sufficient and should be stated first. The conference happened; projects conclude. Epstein’s correspondence with Rød-Larsen continues on other subjects. Total corpus volume declines after 2013 across every topic. Institutional follow-up would sit in IPI’s records, not a private individual’s inbox.
What this archive cannot tell us is whether the Nexus Centre was ever built, whether the $15 million moved, or what became of the five-year workplan whose fifth year would have fallen in 2018. Those answers are in institutional archives, not this one.
That the Nexus Centre was funded or founded. We hold concepts, revisions, a proposal and a figure — not an outcome.
And nothing indicates that Margaret Chan, Peter Maurer or any conference participant knew of Epstein’s role in the initiative that produced it.
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