1. David Nabarro has made his career in the international civil service, working for either the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Director-General of the World Health Organization.
28 Facts About David Nabarro
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David Nabarro was formerly consultant endocrinologist at University College Hospital and Middlesex Hospital, London.
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David Nabarro attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire, leaving in the summer of 1966.
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David Nabarro spent a year as the organiser of Youth Action, York.
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David Nabarro studied at the University of Oxford and the University of London, and qualified as a physician in 1973.
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David Nabarro is a member of the Faculty of Public Health and the Royal College of Physicians by distinction.
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David Nabarro worked as a medical officer in North Iraq for Save the Children, before joining the United Kingdom's National Health Service for a short time.
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From 1976 to 1978, David Nabarro worked as District Child Health Officer in Dhankuta District, Nepal.
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David Nabarro moved to the Overseas Development Administration as a strategic adviser for health and population in East Africa, based in Nairobi, in 1989.
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David Nabarro later took up the post of chief health and population adviser at the Overseas Development Administration in 1990, and moved on to become director of human development in 1997.
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David Nabarro joined the WHO in January 1999, as project manager of Roll Back Malaria, then moved to the Office of the Director General as executive director in March 2000.
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David Nabarro transferred to the Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments cluster in 2003 and was appointed representative of the DG for health action in crises in July 2003.
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David Nabarro was stationed in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, when it was bombed on the afternoon of 19 August 2003.
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David Nabarro has coordinated support for health aspects of crisis response operations in Darfur, Sudan, and in countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Tsunami.
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In September 2005, David Nabarro was seconded from WHO and appointed senior UN system coordinator for avian and human influenza by secretary-general of the UN Kofi Annan to ensure that the UN system made an effective and coordinated contribution to the global effort to control the epidemic of avian influenza.
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In January 2009, David Nabarro took on the responsibility of coordinating the UN system's High-Level Task Force on Global Food Security.
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David Nabarro left the HLTF coordinator position in 2014 and was succeeded by Giuseppe Fantozzi.
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In September 2010, David Nabarro was appointed coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.
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David Nabarro was responsible for leading a high-level advisory group to guide reform of WHO's response to outbreaks and emergencies, prepare reports based on the group's recommendations and advise on the manner of their implementation.
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In 2016 David Nabarro was tapped to lead the UN's response to Haiti's cholera epidemic.
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David Nabarro was the second UN appointee to work on the cholera crisis in Haiti.
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In January 2016, David Nabarro was appointed special adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
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In September 2016, David Nabarro was nominated by the UK's First May ministry to stand for the post of director-general of the World Health Organization.
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David Nabarro was one of six candidates put forward by their individual governments to succeed DGWHO Margaret Chan.
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In October 2020, David Nabarro gave an interview with The Spectator on YouTube in which he highlighted the WHO's updated position on lockdowns in regards to national responses to COVID.
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David Nabarro argued that lockdowns should be used as "circuit breakers" and as a reserve measure to control the virus rather than a primary measure.
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David Nabarro's comments were taken by some as meaning that the WHO did not support lockdowns.
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David Nabarro was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1992 for services to international public health and Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to global health.