COP27 Climate Change Conference: Urgent Action Needed for Africa and the World

Lukoye Atwoli¹, Gregory E. Erhabor², Aiah A. Gbakima³, Abraham Haileamlak⁴, Jean-Marie Kayembe Ntumba⁵, James Kigera⁶, Laurie Laybourn-Langton⁷, Bob Mash⁸, Joy Muhia⁹, Fhumulani Mavis Mulaudzi¹⁰, David Ofori-Adjei¹¹, Friday Okonofua¹², Arash Rashidian¹³, Maha El-Adawy¹⁴, Siaka Sidibé¹⁵, Abdelmadjid Snouber¹⁶, James Tumwin¹⁷, Mohammad Sahar Yassien¹⁸, Paul Yonga¹⁹, Lilia Zakhama²⁰, Chris Zielinski²¹

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¹ Editor-in-Chief, East African Medical Journal

² Editor-in-Chief, West African Journal of Medicine

³ Editor-in-Chief, Sierra Leone Journal of Biomedical Research

⁴ Editor-in-Chief, Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences

⁵ Chief Editor, Annales Africaines de Medecine

⁶ Editorin-Chief, Annals of African Surgery

⁷ University of Exeter, University of Exeter

⁸ Editor-in-Chief, African Journal of Primary Health Care & Family Medicine

⁹ London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene, London School of Medicine and Tropical Hygiene

¹⁰ Editor-in-Chief, Curationis

¹¹ Editor-in-Chief, Ghana Medical Journal

¹² Editor-inChief, African Journal of Reproductive Health

¹³ Executive Editor, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

¹⁴ Director of Health Promotion, Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal

¹⁵ Director of Publication, Mali Médical

¹⁶ Managing Editor, Journal de la Faculté de Médecine d’Oran

¹⁷ Editor-in-Chief, African Health Sciences

¹⁸ Editor-in-Chief, Evidence-Based Nursing Research

¹⁹ Managing Editor, East African Medical Journal

²⁰ Editor-in-Chief, La Tunisie Médicale

²¹ University of Winchester, University of Winchester

EJMO 2022, 6(3), 195–197; https://doi.org/10.14744/ejmo.2022.66627

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