David Nabarro

Dr. David Nabarro (born 26 August 1949) is a medical doctor, international civil servant and diplomat; who currently serves as Special Adviser to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Climate Change. He is also leading the UN's response to the cholera epidemic in Haiti and previously served as the Special Envoy on Ebola.

In September 2016, Dr Nabarro was nominated by the UK to stand for the post of Director-General (DG) of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Dr Nabarro is the son of the late Sir John David Nunes Nabarro - formerly consultant endocrinologist at University College Hospital (UCH) and Middlesex Hospital, London.

He attended Oundle School, leaving in the summer of 1966. In a gap year between school and university, Dr 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.

Dr Nabarro studied at University of Oxford and University of London, and qualified as a physician in 1973. He is a member of the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) and the Royal College of Physicians by distinction (where he is also a Fellow).

Dr Nabarro worked as a Medical Officer in North Iraq for Save the Children, before joining the United Kingdom's (UK) National Health Service (NHS) for a short time. From 1976 to 1978, Dr Nabarro worked as District Child Health Officer in Dhankuta District, Nepal. Later, he moved to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in 1982, he became Regional Manager for the Save the Children Fund in South Asia, based in the region. In 1985 he joined the University of Liverpool Medical School as Senior Lecturer in International Community Health.

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