Oumnia Anfer ✳
Casablanca, Morocco / أمنيةMoroccan roots.
African perspective.

OumniaAnfer.

Health. Climate.
Youth at the table.

Medical Intern — Planetary Health Advocate

I bring a medical lens to climate conversations and an African youth perspective to environmental decision-making. As a speaker and moderator, I connect complex issues with lived experience — and create space for voices that need to be heard.

Oumnia smiling in a black hijab and white medical coat beside flowering trees
From passion
to impact.
CYMG Africa Regional Focal PointUNESCO YoU-CAN Steering GroupCOP28 Health Steering Committee · Previous engagement
Alumni communityIVLP AlumniInternational Visitor Leadership Program
FellowshipWomen@Dior FellowWomen@Dior & UNESCO
AmbassadorshipAYCH AmbassadorAfrican Youth Climate Hub
A few moments, many conversations.

In the room.
On the ground.

From international health panels to environmental assemblies: speaking, moderating, and bringing people into the conversation.

Oumnia wearing a patterned hijab and speaking at the UNEA podium
Nairobi / UNEA-6 / 2024

Youth perspectives in environmental diplomacy.

Speaking at UNEA-6 as Presidency Focal Point.

Oumnia wearing hijab while opening Women and Youth Day at Africa RCM
Addis Ababa / Africa RCM / 2026

Hosting Women and Youth Day.

Overall MC and co-lead, with CYMG and the Women Major Group.

Oumnia wearing a mauve hijab at a conference desk with her CYMG nameplate
Environmental governance / CYMG

Taking youth priorities into the room.

Bringing an African youth perspective to multilateral discussions.

Oumnia wearing a mauve hijab in front of an America 250 alumni event backdrop
America 250 · Alumni connections

Connecting beyond borders.

A moment of exchange and connection with the alumni community.

Oumnia wearing a patterned hijab and speaking into a microphone during a conference discussion
Speaking from the floor

A voice in the conversation.

Contributing to environmental dialogue and bringing youth perspectives forward.

Oumnia wearing hijab and presenting at a workshop
Workshop presentation

Sharing knowledge. Building dialogue.

Presenting ideas and opening space for discussion.

My perspective comes from medical training, climate negotiations, and convening African youth. I connect the health consequences of environmental decisions with the people and communities those decisions affect.

Meet me through CYMG ↗
Speaking · Hosting · Engaging

Watch me
in action.

A few excerpts from the rooms where I speak, host, and contribute.

Audience intervention

Contributing to environmental dialogue

A contribution from the floor during a multilateral discussion.

Open clip ↗

For your next event

A perspective to share.
A dialogue to lead.

Speaking

Connecting health, climate, and equity.

I speak on Planetary Health, climate impacts on children and young people, and meaningful youth participation in environmental decision-making.

Moderation & facilitation

Helping different perspectives meet.

I facilitate high-level dialogues, multi-stakeholder panels, and youth consultations, with clear questions, space for participation, and a focused synthesis.

Selected speaking & moderation

Experience
in the room.

Health panels, environmental dialogues, and spaces for women and youth to shape the agenda.

01
Speaker

COP28 · Climate & children's health

Panel speaker at the UNICEF and Wellcome discussion on climate impacts on child and adolescent health.

Dubai
2023
02
Plenary speaker

International Conference on Urban Health

Plenary panellist on mental health and children's well-being in a changing climate.

Marrakesh
2024
03
Moderator

Global Youth Environment Assembly

Moderated the closing dialogue with UNEP leadership, bringing youth and institutional perspectives into the same conversation.

Nairobi
2024
04
Overall MC & co-lead

Africa RCM · Women and Youth Day

Hosted the day and helped connect consultations, policy discussion, and priorities for African environmental action.

Addis Ababa
2026
From convening to collective action

Voices gathered.
Priorities carried forward.

One example of how I connect community engagement, programming, and policy communication.

RCOY Africa 2024 · Rabat, Morocco

A continental platform for African youth.

As Head of Programming and part of the executive organising team, I helped shape RCOY Africa's programme, partnerships, and policy messaging. I proposed a survey to include perspectives beyond the conference and helped translate the findings into an African Youth Statement and a policy brief for the Summit of the Future.

47African countries
represented
2,000+Survey responses
informing policy outputs
60+Policy recommendations
reported in the summary

Collective conference and consultation results, as reported in the project summary.

Read the project summary ↗
Community-building roots · Schoonect

Helping a community take part.

In education technology, I supported student ambassadors, built partnerships, and coordinated webinars and a bootcamp. That experience shaped how I approach participation: creating opportunities for people to contribute, learn, and stay connected.

Something
to read ↗

Young People's Guide to Climate Change and Children's Health

A UNICEF resource I helped co-develop — connecting the science with young people's everyday lives.

Good conversations start somewhere.

Let’s work
together.

Have an idea at the intersection of health, climate, and youth participation? Let’s explore a collaboration — from speaking and moderation to policy work, community engagement, and shared initiatives.

oumniaanfer5@gmail.com