David Nabarro
British medical academic (1949 - 2025)
Sir David Nunes Nabarro (26 August 1949 – 25 July 2025) was a British Special Envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization. He 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. From February 2020, he helped the DGWHO deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Early life and education
Nabarro was the son of Sir John David Nunes Nabarro, whose cousin was Sir Gerald Nabarro, MP, and who was a consultant endocrinologist at University College Hospital (UCH) and Middlesex Hospital, London. David attended Oundle School in Northamptonshire, leaving in the summer of 1966.
In a gap year between school and university, Nabarro was a community service volunteer. He spent a year as the organiser of Youth Action, York. A BBC television documentary was made about his volunteer work.
David Nabarro was an undergraduate and postgraduate at Worcester College, Oxford, and went on to study clinical medicine at University College Hospital, University of London. He qualified as a physician in 1974.
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