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- David Nabarro, British physician who led UN response to Ebola and COVID-19, dies</p>
<p>July 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM</p>
<p>FILE - David Nabarro, World Health Organisation Special Envoy for Covid-19 Prevention and Response, poses after he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London, Friday March 3, 2023. (Victoria Jones/Pool via AP, file) ()</p>
<p>GENEVA (AP) — Dr. David Nabarro, a British physician who led the U.N. response to some of the biggest health crises in recent years, including bird flu, Ebola and the coronavirus pandemic, has died. He was 75.</p>
<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, confirmed Nabarro's death on social media platform X.</p>
<p>"David was a great champion of global health and health equity, and a wise, generous mentor to countless individuals," Tedros wrote Saturday. "His work touched and impacted so many lives across the world."</p>
<p>King Charles III knighted Nabarro in 2023 for his contributions to global health after he served as one of six special envoys to the WHO on COVID-19. He won the 2018 World Food Prize for his work on health and hunger issues.</p>
<p>He also was a candidate for the top job at the WHO in 2017 but lost out to Tedros in the final round of voting. Nabarro left the U.N. later that year.</p>
<p>In 2003, Nabarro survived a bombing at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people, including the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the time, and wounded dozens more.</p>
<p>Nabarro, then one of the WHO's senior directors, was in a meeting when "suddenly there was this extraordinary thud," he told reporters during an emotional news conference days later in Geneva, still carrying his blood-spattered notebook.</p>
<p>"We found some first aid kits, got bandages and turned people onto their sides. We were working like in a cloud, in this fog of moaning and crying," he recalled.</p>
<p>The 4SD Foundation, a social enterprise in Switzerland where Nabarro served as strategic director, said he died Friday in a "sudden passing."</p>
<p>"David's generosity and unwavering commitment to improve the lives of others will be sorely missed," it said.</p>
<p>Thuy Maryen, Nabarro's longtime friend and the foundation's former communications director, said he was 75 and died at his home in Ferney-Voltaire, France, a suburb of Geneva.</p>
<p>The foundation is focused on mentoring the next generation of leaders in global sustainable development.</p>
<p>Survivors include his wife, Flo, as well as his five children and seven grandchildren.</p>
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