Speaker: Dr David Nabarro
Co-Director, Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London
Senior Advisor, Food Systems Summit Dialogues, 4SD Switzerland; Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID19
David Nabarro is Co-Director, Imperial College London Institute of Global Health Innovation, and supports systems leadership for sustainable development through his Switzerland based social enterprise 4SD. From March 2020, David is appointed Special Envoy of WHO Director General on COVID-19. He is also Senior Advisor, Food Systems Summit Dialogues. David secured his medical qualification in 1974 and has worked in over 50 countries – in communities and hospitals, governments, civil society, universities, and in United Nations (UN) programs.
In the 1990s, David worked for the British government as Head of Health and Population and Director for Human Development in the UK Department for International Development. From 1999 to 2017, he held leadership roles in the UN system on disease outbreaks and health issues, food insecurity and nutrition, climate change and sustainable development. In October 2018, David received the World Food Prize together with Lawrence Haddad for leadership in raising the profile and building coalitions for action for better nutrition across the Sustainable Development Goals.
In his talk David will focus on the global COVID19 pandemic: what he has learnt and what he expects will be the learnings from the 12 months to come.<.p>
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