COVID-19 special envoy David Nabarro dies aged 75
"David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the Briton in a post on X on Saturday.
"His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world."
Nabarro was also co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College in London.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Nabarro called for more global cooperation and aid to poorer countries during a health crisis he said was "nothing like anything else we've ever seen in my professional life".
In 2017, he was a candidate for WHO director general, finishing second to Tedros in the election.
David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's special envoy for COVID-19 since the early stages of the outbreak in 2020, has died at the age of 75.
"David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the Briton in a post on X on Saturday.
"His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world."
Nabarro was also co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College in London.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Nabarro called for more global cooperation and aid to poorer countries during a health crisis he said was "nothing like anything else we've ever seen in my professional life".
In 2017, he was a candidate for WHO director general, finishing second to Tedros in the election.
David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's special envoy for COVID-19 since the early stages of the outbreak in 2020, has died at the age of 75.
"David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the Briton in a post on X on Saturday.
"His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world."
Nabarro was also co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College in London.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Nabarro called for more global cooperation and aid to poorer countries during a health crisis he said was "nothing like anything else we've ever seen in my professional life".
In 2017, he was a candidate for WHO director general, finishing second to Tedros in the election.
David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's special envoy for COVID-19 since the early stages of the outbreak in 2020, has died at the age of 75.
"David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said of the Briton in a post on X on Saturday.
"His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world."
Nabarro was also co-director of the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College in London.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, Nabarro called for more global cooperation and aid to poorer countries during a health crisis he said was "nothing like anything else we've ever seen in my professional life".
In 2017, he was a candidate for WHO director general, finishing second to Tedros in the election.
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