One award of a CBE went to an ex army reservist surgeon who spent 6 months as a trauma surgeon at Bastion. He managed an Ebola hospital in Sierra Leone for 4 months and then soon after went to Nepal for the earthquake. As well as fighting the waste of space that is the WHO he was also heavily clinically involved in patient care.
The medics honoured for their response to the Ebola crisis also include Dr Timothy Brooks, head of the rare and imported pathogens laboratory at Public Health England (CBE), and Professor Christopher Bulstrode, Emeritus Professor at Green Templeton College, Oxford (OBE).
Chris is a very humble person and a gentleman. One of the better awards I think.