The 2016-2017 cohort marks the fourth year of the World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders programme and will focus on access to essential medicines. Previous cohorts have focused on secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases, raised blood pressure, and tobacco prevention and control.
Created in 2014, World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders is among the first international training programmes on cardiovascular implementation research. Its main objective is to build up capacity, professional development, mentorship, and networking of CVD Emerging Leaders (ELs) in 100 countries.
Each year through a competitive process 25 ELs are selected. The ELs participate in online webinars covering fundamental topics in the field of implementation science, health systems, and health policy research. In addition, the participants also meet face-to-face to participate in an interactive five-day think tank seminar with senior CVD investigators to develop tangible collaborative multinational innovative and interdisciplinary projects with a goal of contributing to the reduction on CVD premature mortality.
Welcome to this year’s Emerging Leaders
Jennifer Jones, United Kingdom
Lilian Mbau, Kenya
Roopa Shivashankar, India
Emily Atkins, Australia
Joao Pedro Ferreira, Portugal
Jose Ferrer, USA/Philippines
Sarah Kraus, South Africa
Tangeni Auala, Namibia
Xiaodong Guan, China
Abhishek Sharma, India/ Canada
Ahmadou Jingi, Cameroon
Alberto Morales Salinas, Cuba
Asim Katbeh, Syria
Christelle Crickmore, South Africa
Karla Santo, Brazil
Neusa Jessen, Mozambique
Rajmohan Panda, India
Salim Virani, USA
Shiva Raj Mishra, Nepal
Augustine Odili, Nigeria
Sainimere Boladuadua, Fiji
Adrianna Murphy, Canada/Rwanda
Godsent Isiguzo, South Africa
Jordan Jarvis, USA
Sandeep Kishore, USA
