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.