The World We Want - Youth Voices On Climate And Health, EP6 Omnia El Omrani

In this series, Jonathan Foster takes a closer look at the lives of youth leaders and activists, discussing the current climate, environment, and health crisis and the possibilities, alternatives, and ideas for transformational change.

Listen to what global youth leaders really think about the handling of our intensifying Climate and Health Emergency.

This is our sixth episode, the first of season 2, brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference 2023: Setting A New Health Agenda - At The Nexus Of Climate Change, Environment and Biodiversity. The conference will be held on the 24-29 January 2023, Bangkok, Thailand

In a wide ranging discussion, Jonathan Foster and Omnia El Omrani talk about her role as the liaison between grassroots activists and COP 27 in her new role as the first ever President Envoy on Youth for the upcoming COP 27. They address the responsibility of the medical profession to translate the complexity of global and personal health into a comprehensible story and the direct link between the planetary health and individual health. And they discuss the challenging the fundamental values and principles that are the root causes our climate and health emergency and how Omnia imagines a future world.

Omnia El Omrani is the first ever President Envoy on Youth for the upcoming COP 27. She is also a Surgery Resident at Ain Shams University in Egypt. She served as the Liaison Officer for Public Health Issues for the IFMSA, leading its external work in Climate Change, Non-Communicable Diseases, and Mental Health. She is a Commissioner at the Lancet-Chatham House Commission on Improving Population Health Post-COVID and an associate at Women Leaders for Planetary Health.

This podcast is brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC), and Jonathan Foster of Foster Media, in collaboration with the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT), FHI 360, The World Health Organisation, The British Medical Journal, USAID, and Foster Media.

First established in 1998, the Prince Mahidol Award Conference has grown to be one of the most important fora to discuss public health issues of global significance and the largest to be led by a low- or middle-income country.

Theme tune written and produced by Caleb Fawcett. Find him on www.calebfawcett.com