Kerman University of Medical Sciences International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2322-5939 11 12 2022 12 01 COP27: The Prospects and Challenges for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) 2776 2779 4342 10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7800 EN Amirhossein Takian Department of Global Health & Public Policy, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department Health Management, Policy & Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Health Equity Research Center (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 0000-0001-7806-5558 Arefeh Mousavi Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 0000-0002-8837-3711 Martin McKee Centre for Global Chronic Conditions, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK 0000-0002-0121-9683 Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran 0000-0002-8009-470X Ronald Labonté School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada 0000-0002-0615-740X Viroj Tangcharoensathien Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand 0000-0003-3235-0091 Ruairí Brugha Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland 0000-0003-0729-0197 Elizabeth Bradley Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA 0000-0003-2592-2741 Lawrence Gostin O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA 0000-0001-5286-4044 Eivind Engebretsen Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 0000-0001-9455-110X Nir Eyal School of Public Health, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA 0000-0003-1056-6609 Sharon Friel Menzies Centre for Health Governance, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia 0000-0002-8345-5435 Victor G. Rodwin Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, New York City, NY, USA 0000-0002-2411-6185 Ole F. Norheim Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway 0000-0002-5748-5956 Mohammad Hajizadeh School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada 0000-0002-4591-8531 Naoki Ikegami Keio University, Tokyo, Japan Agnes Binagwaho University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda 0000-0002-6779-3151 Ilona Kickbusch Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland 0000-0002-2699-7166 Aidin Aryankhesal Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 0000-0002-6695-227X Ali-Akbar Haghdoost Research Centre for Modelling in Health, Institute for Future Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran 0000-0003-4628-4849 Journal Article 2022 11 02 <span class="fontstyle0">In line with the global trend, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been growing vulnerable to the direct and indirect health effects of climate change including death tolls due to climatological disasters and diseases sensitive to climate change since the industrial revolution. Regarding the limited capacity of MENA countries to adapt and respond to these effects, and also after relative failures of the previous negotiation in Glasgow, in the upcoming COP27 in Egypt, the heads of the region’s parties are determined to take advantage of the opportunity to host MENA to mitigate and prevent the worst effects of climate change. This would be achieved through mobilizing international partners to support climate resilience, a major economic transformation, and put health policy and management in a strategic position to contribute to thinking and action on these pressing matters, at least to avoid or minimize the future adverse consequences.</span> https://www.ijhpm.com/article_4342_1f5e7f2748adabf08629a6312ac3bfdd.pdf