Peter Salama →
Medical epidemiologist and Executive Director of WHO's Division for Universal Health Coverage. Born in Melbourne, Australia, on December 22, 1968, he died in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 23, 2020. Read more.
Fazle Hasan Abed →
Founder of BRAC. He was born in Baniachong village, in what is now Bangladesh, on April 27, 1936, and died in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on December 20, 2019. Read more.
Tetsu Nakamura →
Japanese physician and humanitarian. Born in Fukuoka, Japan, on September 15, 1946, he died after being shot in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on December 4, 2019. Read more.
Bogaletch Gebre →
Women's rights advocate who campaigned to end female genital mutilation. Born in Zata, Ethiopia, she died in Los Angeles, California, on Nov 2, 2019. Read more.
Sadako Ogata →
Diplomat and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Born in Tokyo, Japan, on September 16, 1927, she died in Tokyo, Japan, on October 22, 2019. Read more.
Dorothea Buck →
German victim of Nazi crimes who became an advocate for psychiatric reform. Born in Naumburg, Germany, on April 5, 1917, she died in Hamburg, Germany, on October 9, 2019. Read more.
Allison Milner →
Social epidemiologist specializing in workplace mental health. Born in Melbourne, Australia, on May 1, 1983, she died in Melbourne on August 12, 2019. Read more.
John Henderson →
Paediatrician and expert on asthma and child and infant respiratory systems. Born in Renfrew, UK, on Feb 11, 1958, he died in Bristol, UK, on July 24, 2019. Read more.
Patricia Bath →
Ophthalmologist who invented a new technique for cataract surgery. Born in Harlem, New York, on Nov 4, 1942, she died in San Francisco, California, on May 30, 2019. Read more.
Kenneth Forde →
Surgeon and pioneer in diagnostic and surgical endoscopy. Born on July 6, 1933, in Manhattan, New York, he died on June 2, 2019, in Scarborough, New York. Read more.
Teruko Ishizaka →
Immunologist who co-discovered IgE and advanced allergy research. Born in Yamagata, Japan, on Sept 28, 1926, she died in Yamagata, Japan, on June 4, 2019. Read more.
LaSalle D Leffall, Jr. →
Surgeon, oncologist, and medical educator. Born in Tallahassee, Florida, on May 22, 1930, he died in Washington, D.C., on May 25, 2019. Read more.
Richard Valery Mouzoko Kiboung →
Public health physician, epidemiologist and front-line responder to the Ebola outbreak. Born in Bafia, Cameroon, on May 31, 1977, he was killed during an attack on Butembo University Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo on April 19, 2019. Read more.
HIV epidemic in children in Pakistan raises concern →
More than 730 people, including almost 600 children, have been diagnosed with HIV in Ratodero, southeast Pakistan, since an outbreak of the virus was reported in late April. Read more.
WHO declines to declare Congo Ebola outbreak a public health emergency →
Though the Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo reached new records for daily infections last week, experts convened by the World Health Organization opted not to declare a public health emergency. Read more.