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…
Improving physical activity in children: WHF collaborates in the Children in the City programme
The majority of European children are not meeting the recommended level of physical activity, putting their health and…
RHD Action Press Release: Uganda RHD Stakeholders’ Meeting
On 2-3 November 2017 RHD Action – of which World Heart Federation is a founding member – co-organized…
WHF attends the 43rd Congress of Cardiology in Argentina hosted by the Argentine Society of Cardiology
The Argentine Society of Cardiology (SAC) celebrated its 80 years at the 43rd Congress of Cardiology in Argentina…
Today is World Stroke Day
The World Stroke Organization, a membership organization representing over 55,000 professionals and many more stroke patients worldwide, has…
WHF participates in the 28th Great Wall International Cardiology Conference 2017 (GW-ICC)
The 28th Great Wall International Cardiology Conference (GW-ICC) which took place 12-15 October 2017 in Beijing, China,…
WHF African Summit presentations & summary now available
The World Heart Federation African Summit on Best Practices and Access to Care was held in Khartoum, Sudan…
NCDs Top of the Agenda at WHO Regional Meetings
The urgent need for measures to prevent and control noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) was at the top of the…