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Dr. Omnia El Omrani
Vice-Chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance |
Dr. Omnia El Omrani is the Vice-Chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and an Egyptian medical doctor. She was the first official Youth Envoy to the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and COP27 President and was then appointed as the COP28 Health Envoy. She is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the University of Oxford and a Climate and Health Policy Fellow at Imperial College London. She was selected as Apolitical's 50 Gender Equality Gamechangers in 2024 and Fast Company ME recognised her as one of the 35 Most Creative People in Business in 2023. She was awarded the 2023 Women of the Future, 50 Rising Stars in ESG. She serves as the co-lead of the Equity Group of the Lancet Commission on Prevention of Viral Spillover. She also serves on two other Lancet Commissions on Sustainable Healthcare and Global Governance on Health, and she has more than 30 research publications on climate change, health and intergenerational justice.
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