Amirhossein Takian
1,2,3* 
, Arefeh Mousavi
4 , Martin McKee
5 , Vahid Yazdi-Feyzabadi
6 , Ronald Labonté
7 , Viroj Tangcharoensathien
8 , Ruairí Brugha
9 , Elizabeth Bradley
10 , Lawrence Gostin
11 , Eivind Engebretsen
12 , Nir Eyal
13,14 , Sharon Friel
15 , Victor G. Rodwin
16 , Ole F. Norheim
17 , Mohammad Hajizadeh
18 , Naoki Ikegami
19, Agnes Binagwaho
20 , Ilona Kickbusch
21 , Aidin Aryankhesal
22 , Ali-Akbar Haghdoost
23 1 Department of Global Health & Public Policy, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
2 Department Health Management, Policy & Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
3 Health Equity Research Center (HERC), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
4 Health Management and Economics Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
5 Centre for Global Chronic Conditions, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
6 Health Services Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
7 School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
8 Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand.
9 Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland.
10 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA.
11 O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA.
12 Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
13 School of Public Health, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
14 Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
15 Menzies Centre for Health Governance, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
16 Wagner School of Public Service, New York University, New York City, NY, USA.
17 Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
18 School of Health Administration, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
19 Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
20 University of Global Health Equity, Kigali, Rwanda.
21 Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
22 Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
23 Research Centre for Modelling in Health, Institute for Future Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran.
Abstract
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.