David Nabarro, U.N. Health Expert During Ebola and Covid, Dies at 75
An announcement by 4SD Foundation, a consulting group he ran with his wife, Florence Lasbennes, said his death was sudden but did not cite a cause.
Dr. Nabarro, a British-born physician, was an expert on epidemics and a wizard of organizing, with a résumé of campaigns in some of the world's most troubled places at moments of maximum peril.
He worked in Haiti during a cholera outbreak in 2016, in Baghdad during the Iraq War and in West Africa during the Ebola epidemic of 2014.
He was widely known in global health circles, and in 2017 was runner-up to become director general of the World Health Organization, losing in a vote by the health ministers of 186 nations to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia.
'David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals,' Dr. Tedros wrote on social media over the weekend. 'His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world.'
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