About United Against Tobacco and COVID

The Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network (EMPHNET) is a regional network that focuses on strengthening public health systems in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) and beyond. EMPHNET works in partnership with ministries of health, non-government organizations, international agencies, private sector, and relevant institutions from the region and the globe to promote public health and applied epidemiology.

Vital Strategies supports governments to strengthen their public health systems to contend with the most important and difficult health challenges of our time. We design solutions that can scale up rapidly and improve the lives of millions of people. Our mission is to work in partnership to reimagine evidence-based, locally driven policies and practices to advance public health. 

A public health system is the often-invisible web of protections that help us lead long, productive and healthy lives. Public health encompasses regulations that keep toxins out of our food and pollutants out of the air we breathe. It is data that informs decisions about health policy, and environments that empower people to make healthier choices. 

The Royal Health Awareness Society, a Queen Rania initiative, was established in 2005 to promote health awareness and to empower individuals to adopt healthy lifestyles and behaviors. The Society implements preventative public health and safety programs based on the right to health for all, targeting schoolchildren, youth, and the community at large. Health topics of concern include tobacco control, noncommunicable diseases, hygiene promotion, road safety, injury prevention, healthy nutrition, physical activity, and drug abuse prevention. 

Royal Health Awareness Society is well-renowned for its exceptional ability to develop national awareness campaigns to raise the awareness of the public about the importance of health covering several topics, such as tobacco control, risks of passive/secondhand smoking, and its legal ramifications.

For more information, please visit the Jordan Campaign web page.

The Institute of Community and Public Health at Birzeit University aims to contribute to the protection and improvement of the health of the Palestinian population through research, Master of Public Health (MPH) and Diploma programs, and capacity building of public health providers and planners. Its theoretical foundations are based on the notion that health is socially constructed and on understanding health and disease in context, taking shape over the life course. Medical services are considered important for achieving health, but not sufficient, requiring additional action outside health services and within community and society to address the structural factors that influence health and well-being, such as economic, social, cultural, political and environmental influences on health.

For more information, please visit the Palestine campaign webpage.

United Iraqi Medical Society for Relief & Development is a non-governmental civil society organization in Iraq, for public benefit, dealing with humanitarian, health, relief, and development-related issues and charitable affairs regardless of race, color, religion, and culture. 

Established on May 21, 2003, the organization provides of humanitarian assistance and contributes to supporting health institutions with basic needs, medical supplies, and medicines for families affected by wars and disasters. 

United Iraqi Medical Society for Relief & Development has been an active local partner with WHO since 2015, and has successfully provided health support services to more than a million Iraqi people in conflict-affected areas and displacement camps through implementing many health services for the mentioned in-need population. 

Cairo Association Against Smoking, Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases-Egypt (CASTLE) has focused on anti-smoking activities since its establishment in 1966. It is registered with the Ministry of Social Affairs of Egypt. CASTLE launched the first tobacco control observatory in the Middle East.