Monovar Khan Afridi CBE (12 February 1900, Kohat – 16 October 1968) was a Pakistani general and malariologist who made significant contributions to medicine in the early years of the World Health Organization.

Over the course of the next four years, he conducted extensive surveys on malaria in various areas including Delhi, Bahrein, Uttar Pradesh, and Terai.

[1] In 1940 and during World War II, Afridi was called back to military service and worked as a malariologist for the armies operating in Sudan, Iraq, India, and Southeast Asia.

He was promoted to the rank of brigadier on 5 August 1944,[4] and he was credited with building up the organisation that helped to solve the problem of malaria among Allied Forces in Southeast Asia.

He later joined the World Health Organization as deputy regional director to Aly Tewfik Shousha for the Eastern Mediterranean, and subsequently served as the Surgeon General of East Pakistan and then as the director of health services for his home province of the North-West Frontier in West Pakistan.

[1] Afridi also played a central role in the establishment of Khyber Medical College in Peshawar and is considered as the god-father of the institute.