Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 9-25-2025

Abstract

North African nations are highly exposed to the climate-health crisis, facing combined risks that greatly impact vulnerable groups. These include repeated climate-related disease outbreaks, plus more heat waves and droughts. Existing health education and infrastructure aren't ready to handle these issues. A dual-track strategy to build regional climate-health capacity is proposed in this policy paper: A) integrate climate-health education into medical and public health curricula at all universities across North Africa; and B) launch a multilingual Continuous Professional Development (CPD) platform will develop health workers and students, adaptation through knowledge sharing, building local leadership, and ensuring fair access to resources.

In order to move beyond pilot programmes and towards a coordinated capacity-building strategy that includes quantifiable health, social, and environmental co-benefits, regional cooperation and existing international frameworks, such as the WHO Operational Framework for Climate-Resilient Health Systems and the UNFCCC's ACE guidelines, can be used. This will align with the Sharm El-Sheikh Adaptation Agenda (SAA) and clarify how to increase adaptation efforts in health. It also makes sure that the regional needs are included in global adaptation plans. This plan is in line with the accelerated climate goal.

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