WHF and the Saudi Heart Association hold Cholesterol roundtable in Saudi Arabia
On December 9, 2017, the World Heart Federation and Saudi Heart Association convened a multi-stakeholder group of senior…
FACTC Emerging Leaders team to run workshop at 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
A second team from the 2016 Emerging Leaders cohort will run a workshop at the 17th World Conference on Tobacco…
KOMPLY Emerging Leaders team to run workshop at 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
A team from the 2016 Emerging Leaders cohort will run a workshop on smoke-free law (SFL) at the…
InterAmerican Heart Foundation awarded for Advocacy at the NCD Alliance Forum in Sharjah, UAE
The NCD Alliance Forum was held in Sharjah, UAE from 9-11 December 2017 and was organized under the…
WHF joins the European Heart Network’s (EHN) 25th anniversary celebrations
Left to right: David Wood, President WHF; Susanne Løgstrup, Director EHN; Simon Gillespie, President EHN; Jean-Luc Eisele, CEO…
Interview with Emerging Leaders at WCC Mexico
WCC TV catches up with Mark Huffman, the WHF Scientific Programme Committee Co-chair to learn about how the…
The 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) to be held in Africa
The 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (WCTOH) to be held in Africa, where tobacco industry interference…
Global Coalition for Circulatory Health – Partners welcome!
WHF invites any professional global, regional, and national civil society organizations with a role in circulatory health to…
Resources for the Emerging Leaders Programme now available
The Emerging Leaders website now has a Resources page where you will be able to find all the…
WHF attends WHO Special Session of the Executive Board
From 22-23 November, WHF participated in a Special Session of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland, held…
Cholesterol roundtable held in Madrid, Spain together with the Fundación Española del Corazón (Spanish Heart Foundation) and Fundación Hipercolesterolemia Familiar
On November 27, 2017, the World Heart Federation met together with a multi-stakeholder group of experts representing different…
President David Wood speaks about the WHF as its 40th anniversary approaches
As the World Heart Federation prepares to mark its 40th anniversary in 2018, President David Wood speaks to…
WHF and Colombian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery hold a Cholesterol roundtable in Colombia
On November 16, 2017, the World Heart Federation, Colombian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery (Sociedad Colombiana de…
WHF participates in a Special Session of the WHO Executive Board
WHO Headquarters during the Sixty-eight World Health Assembly, Palais des Nations, Geneva. Photo by Violaine Martin. From 22-23…
50th anniversary of the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant
From the 2-4 December an event will take place in Cape Town, South Africa to commemorate the 50th…
Call for input: NCD Alliance advocacy priorities for the 2018 High-Level Meeting on NCDs
The 2018 United Nations High-level Meeting on NCDs (UN HLM), which will likely take place in September at…
Listen to my Heart – Patient Awareness Event in Kampala
On 1st November 2017, the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) Rheumatic Heart Disease Support Group and RHD Action –…
RHD Action Co-organizes RHD Stakeholder Meeting in Uganda
“RHD is a big problem here – it causes a lot of mortality. We have convened this meeting…
WHF at the AHA Scientific Sessions in Anaheim, California
AHA Scientific Sessions 2017 were held in Anaheim (California), USA, from November 11–15, aiming to provide a blueprint…
CVD prevention initiative in Patagonia, Argentina
Dr César Berenstein, a renowned cardiologist belonging to the Argentine Cardiology Society (WHF member) has recently embarked in…
WHF attends the 30th Mexican Congress of Cardiology
From left to right: Jesús González (substituting Pablo Kuri Morales), WHF Board Member Daniel Piñeiro, José Luis Moragrega…