Dr Omnia El Omrani is the Vice-Chair of the Global Climate and Health Alliance and an Egyptian medical doctor. She is a Commissioner at the WHO Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health. 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. 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 completed a Master of Public Policy at the University of Oxford. She was selected as Apolitical's 50 Gender Equality Gamechangers in 2024 and Fast Company ME recognized 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 is serving as a member of the TED Countdown Vision Council and the Collective Minds Council. She was a member of the first Youth Sounding Board of the European Union DG-INTPA, an associate at Women Leaders for Planetary Health, and a member of the UNICEF-Az Youth Leaders Program and New York Times Generation Climate Cohort. She has more than 8 years of experience working on climate change and health, has published 32 research papers and has delivered over 120 hours of climate training in 15 countries.
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