Babatunde Osotimehin, who led U.N. population agency, dies at 68
Babatunde Osotimehin, a Nigerian-born doctor who led the United Nations’ population agency, where he promoted public health and sexual and reproductive rights and services for women and girls, died June 4 at his home in West Harrison, N.Y. He was 68.
The U.N. Population Fund announced the death but did not cite a cause. Dr. Osotimehin led the agency, known as UNFPA, since 2011.
Dr. Osotimehin was Nigeria’s health minister before taking the reins of UNFPA with the rank of undersecretary general. Before that, he served in Nigeria as director general of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS and as provost at the University of Ibadan College of Medicine.