The 2023 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 19 countries across 5 continents, has been announced.
The World Heart Federation created the WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme to form and develop a long-term cadre of experts who collaborate, research, and act to reduce premature mortality from cardiovascular disease globally. The Programme, designed by Dr Salim Yusuf in 2014, provides training and networking opportunities in cardiovascular health policy and implementation research for healthcare practitioners, researchers, and global health advocates.
Focusing on a different priority area each year, the objective of the training module is to reduce the global burden of cardiovascular disease in line with UN Sustainable Development Goal 3.4. Our 200-people-strong expert community has so far tackled a number of issues, including secondary prevention, tobacco control, access to essential medicines, diabetes and infectious diseases.
The 2023 cohort marks the programme’s ninth year and will focus on digital health and cardiovascular disease (such as coronary heart disease, hypertension and atrial fibrillation).
The 2023 Emerging Leaders are:
Abhinav Sharma, Canada
Adrian Noriega de la Colina, Canada
Ariel Kraselnik, Argentina
Bin Zhou, United Kingdom
Caio Tavares, Brazil
Dean Picone, Australia
Diana Foo, Malaysia
Elizabeth Paratz, Australia
Franck Nziza, Burundi
Ganeshkumar Parasuraman, India
Honor Bixby, United Kingdom
Irene Gibson, Ireland
Jameel Ahmad, Nigeria
Jessica Orchard, Australia
Julian Hoevelmann South Africa
Keneilwe Nkgola Mmopi, Botswana
Mbiydzenyuy Ferdinant Sonyuy, Cameroon
Megan McLaughlin, United States
Menglu Ouyang, China
Nasirumbi Magero, Kenya
Nilay Shah, United States
Orlanda Goh, Singapore
Priyansh Shah, India
Stefan Tino Kulnik, Austria
Surabhi Joshi, Switzerland
