COP27 Climate Change Conference: Urgent action needed for Africa and the world

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Medical College East Africa, The Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ² Brain and Mind Institute, The Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ³ Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
• ⁴ Chest Unit, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
• ⁵ Department of Technical and Higher Education, Government of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone.
• ⁶ College of Public Health and Medical Sciences, Jimma University, Jimma, Ethiopia.
• ⁷ Department of Pneumology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• ⁸ Department of Human Anatomy, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ⁹ Department of Sustainability Accelerator, Chatham House, London, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁰ Division of Family Medicine and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
• ¹¹ Centre for Global Mental Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
• ¹² Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
• ¹³ Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.
• ¹⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Nigeria.
• ¹⁵ Department of Science, Information and Dissemination, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt.
• ¹⁶ Department of Health Protection and Promotion, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, World Health Organization, Cairo, Egypt.
• ¹⁷ Faculty of Medicine and Odonto-Stomatology, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technology of Bamako, Bamako, Mali.
• ¹⁸ Faculty of Medicine, University of Oran 1, Es Sénia, Algeria.
• ¹⁹ Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Kabale University, Kabale, Uganda.
• ²⁰ Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
• ²¹ CA Medlynks Clinic and Laboratory, Nairobi, Kenya.
• ²² Nairobi Fountain Projects and Research Office (FOPRO), Fountain Health Care Hospital, Eldoret, Kenya.
• ²³ Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
• ²⁴ Department of Cardiology, Security Forces Hospital, La Marsa, Tunisia.
• ²⁵ Centre for Global Health, Faculty of Health and Wellbeing, University of Winchester, Winchester, United Kingdom.