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David Nabarro David Nabarro CBE ( born 26 August 1949 ) is a Special Envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization . He 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 . Since February 2020 , he has helped the DGWHO deal with the COVID-19 pandemic . Early life and education . Nabarro is the son of the late Sir John David Nunes Nabarro—whose cousin was the late Sir Gerald Nabarro , MP—formerly consultant endocrinologist at University College Hospital ( UCH ) and Middlesex Hospital , London . He 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 . Nabarro studied at the University of Oxford and the 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 ) . Career . Early career . Nabarro worked as a medical officer in North Iraq for Save the Children , before joining the United Kingdoms ( UK ) National Health Service ( NHS ) for a short time . From 1976 to 1978 , 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 . He moved to the Overseas Development Administration ( now part of Foreign , Commonwealth and Development Office ) as a strategic adviser for health and population in East Africa , based in Nairobi , in 1989 . Nabarro later took up the post of chief health and population adviser at the Overseas Development Administration ( London office ) in 1990 , and moved on to become director of human development ( as well as chief health adviser ) in 1997 . World Health Organization ( 1999–2005 ) . Nabarro joined the WHO in January 1999 , as project manager of Roll Back Malaria , then moved to the Office of the DG as executive director in March 2000 . In this capacity , he worked with DGWHO Gro Harlem Brundtland for two years on a variety of issues , including the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health , Health Systems Assessments and the creation of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS , Tuberculosis and Malaria . As part of this work , he became for 1999-2001 a member of the board of directors of Medicines for Malaria Venture . 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 . Nabarro was stationed in the Canal Hotel in Baghdad , Iraq , when it was bombed on the afternoon of 19 August 2003 . The blast targeted the UN , which had used the hotel as its headquarters in Iraq since 1991 . He has also coordinated support for health aspects of crisis response operations in Darfur , Sudan , and in countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Tsunami . UN System senior coordinator ( 2005–2014 ) . In September 2005 , 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 ( also known as bird flu ) . Coordinator of Global Food Security ( HLTF ) ( 2008–2014 ) . In January 2009 , Nabarro took on the responsibility of coordinating the UN systems High-Level Task Force on Global Food Security ( HLTF ) . The HLTF brought together 23 different organizations , funds , programs and other entities from within the UN family , as well as the Bretton Woods Institutions , the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) , and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) , and tasked them with establishing a common strategy for addressing food and nutrition insecurity in a more sustainable , coordinated and comprehensive way . Nabarro left the HLTF coordinator position in 2014 and was succeeded by Giuseppe Fantozzi . Special representative of the UN Secretary-General ( 2009–2017 ) . In November 2009 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed Nabarro as special representative on food security and nutrition . As special representative , Nabarros role was to : - Align UN system action on peoples food security , livelihood resilience and sustainable agriculture in the face of changing climates - Support functioning of the Committee on World Food Security - Oversee UN Secretary-Generals Zero Hunger Challenge Coordinator of nutrition movement ( 2010–2015 ) . In September 2010 , Nabarro was appointed coordinator of the Scaling Up Nutrition ( SUN ) Movement . SUN brings together government officials , civil society , the UN , donors , businesses and researchers in a collective effort to improve nutrition . Betimes , he became Member of the WHO Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity ( 2016 ) , 2013–2014 . Special envoy on Ebola ( 2014–15 ) . In August 2014 , Nabarro was designated as special envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Ebola , with the responsibility for ensuring that the UN system makes an effective and coordinated contribution to the global effort to control the outbreak of Ebola . The epidemic is believed to have begun in December 2013 with the death of a 2-year-old boy in a remote area of Guinea , but was not recognized until March 2014 . For several months the epidemic was spreading . This is something that public health experts in the affected locations , such as Medecins Sans Frontières ( Doctors Without Borders ) , claimed was due to a deeply flawed and delayed response by health and government officials . In an interview later in 2015 , once Ebola had largely been brought under control , Nabarro said that when he started working on Ebola in 2014 , he was aware that we were in the middle of a disease outbreak of enormous proportions . The number of people getting sick was doubling every week . Facilities were completely overloaded . Communities were in a state of despair . He added that the international community had learned important lessons from the epidemic : The world is going to be different as a result of this Ebola outbreak , much more confident , much more assured , and much , much more capable to ensure the well-being of its citizens . Chair of the Advisory Group on Reform at WHO ( 2015–16 ) . Nabarro was responsible for leading a high-level advisory group to guide reform of WHOs response to outbreaks and emergencies , prepare reports based on the groups recommendations and advise on the manner of their implementation . Head of UNs response to cholera in Haiti ( 2016–17 ) . In 2016 Nabarro was tapped to lead the UNs response to Haitis cholera epidemic . Cholera had killed more than 10,000 Haitians in the six years since the disease was introduced by UN peacekeepers in 2010 . After UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon issued a long overdue apology for the UNs role in the epidemic , Nabarro oversaw efforts to raise $400 million from UN member states to fund the Secretary Generals proposed New Approach to cholera in Haiti . Nabarro was the second UN appointee to work on the cholera crisis in Haiti . Pedro Modrano Rojas previously served as a senior coordinator for the cholera effort , but left at the end of an 18-month term , stating that he was disappointed by the international communitys failure to acknowledge the fact that we have in Haiti the largest epidemic in the western hemisphere . Nabarros efforts were no more successful—as a result of a lack of support from the UN Secretary General and from member states , Nabarro was only able to raise $2.7 million of the promised $400 million before being replaced by Josette Sheeran—though Sheeran would face the same obstacles as Nabarro . Special adviser on Sustainable Development and Climate Change ( 2016–17 ) . In January 2016 , Nabarro was appointed special adviser on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by then UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon . One of Nabarros responsibilities in this role were to lead the UNs response to the cholera epidemic its peacekeepers sparked in Haiti in October 2010 when untreated , infected sewage from a UN base was deposited in the countrys main river system . As of August 2016 , at least 10,000 people had died and more than 800,000 have been sickened in the epidemic . Candidate for WHO Director-General ( 2016–17 ) . In September 2016 , Nabarro was nominated by the UKs First May ministry to stand for the post of director-general ( DG ) of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . An article co-authored by the UKs chief medical officer , Sally Davies , was published in The Lancet . It outlined the criteria that the next DG of the WHO must fulfill . Nabarro was one of six candidates put forward by their individual governments to succeed DGWHO Margaret Chan . Nabarro outlined his four priorities as follows : 1 . Alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals 2 . Transforming the WHO to respond to outbreaks and health emergencies 3 . Trusted engagement with Member States 4 . Advancing people-centred health policies . On Tuesday 23 May , at the 70th World Health Assembly , Nabarro came second in the race to become the next director general , receiving 50 votes to Dr Tedros Adhanoms 133 in the third and final round of voting . Imperial College London Professor ( 2018-present ) . In 2018 he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and then appointed in 2019 as Co-Director with surgeon Ara Darzi , Baron Darzi of Denham . COVID-19 pandemic . On 21 February 2020 , he was appointed as one of six Special Envoys from the DGWHO , who were tasked to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic . In October 2020 , Naburo gave an interview with The Spectator on YouTube in which he highlighted the WHOs updated position on Lockdowns in regards to national responses to COVID . As a Special Envoy on Covid-19 for the World Health Organization , Naburro said ; “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus.. . the only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize , regroup , rebalance your resources , protect your health workers who are exhausted , but by and large , wed rather not do it.” He argued that lockdowns should be used as ‘circuit breakers’ and as a reserve measure to control the virus rather than a primary measure . In an interview with BBC Radio 4 , he cautioned against a full national lockdown , describing it as “a very extreme restriction on economic and social life” that temporarily “freezes the virus in place” . He said : “You dont want to use those as your primary , and I stress that , primary , means of containment . Because in the end living with the virus as a constant threat means maintaining the capacity to find people with the disease and isolating them.” His comments were taken by some as meaning that the WHO did not support lockdowns . Rather , he emphasises that they do not support lockdowns as a primary measure for tackling the virus , and instead believe that having a robust test , trace and isolate system should be the priority for all governments , ensuring all those who are positive or who have been close to those infected are quarantined , with lockdown as the reserve that you use to take the heat out of the system when things are really bad” . Recognition and awards . - World Food Prize 2018 ( dubbed Nobel Prize for Agriculture ) : Awarded together with Lawrence Haddad for their individual and complementary global leadership in elevating maternal and child undernutrition to a central issue within the food security and development dialogue at national and international levels . They have been cutting the number of stunted children in the world by 10 million by lobbying governments and donors to improve nutrition . - Helen Keller Humanitarian Award : Awarded for work on positioning malnutrition within the development dialogue and for ensuring an effective response to Ebola , 2015 - Sight and Life Nutrition Leadership Award ( together with the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement ) : For work in catalysing sustainable change in global nutrition , 2012 - Distinguished Service Award from Health Policy Institute , Kansas University of Medicine & Biosciences : For outstanding Health Policy Leadership , 2008 - CBE : Awarded for work on international public health , 1992 . Personal life . Nabarro has three children with his former partner , Oxfordshire GP Susanna Belle Graham-Jones . He married Gillian Holmes in 2002 , in Coppet , near Geneva , and they have two children .