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From 21-22 January 2019, the World Heart Federation were proud to co-organise the EMRO Rheumatic Heart Disease Consultative Meeting alongside partners Reach and the World Health Organization Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (WHO EMRO). Held at the EMRO office in Cairo, Egypt, the meeting was convened to focus on the development of national programmes […]

A programme which targeted the lifestyles of male football fans of 15 European football clubs has been more effective in improving physical activity than other physical activity intervention programmes, according to research published in PLOS Medicine today. The European Fans in Training (EuroFIT) programme, an EU-funded randomised control trial of 1113 men aged 30-65, carried […]

  Preparations are being finalised for next month’s Perio & Cardio Workshop, which will explore the links between periodontal disease and cardiovascular diseases and draw up a series of recommendations. The workshop will take place in Madrid on February 18 and 19, organised jointly by the World Heart Federation and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP), in […]

An international collaboration with WHF and IDF members Last month, a small group of CVD & Diabetes experts from the World Heart Federation (WHF) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) came together at Emory University, Atlanta, to discuss the crisis of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and the increasing incidence of CVD. With the burden expected […]

On 30 January 2019, at the Prince Mahidol Award Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, the World Heart Federation (WHF) launched a new report titled Accelerating Cardiovascular Health and Care in Kenya. The report centres around a WHF/Kenya Cardiac Society Roundtable event held in March 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya, which convened speakers and participants from the Ministry of Health […]

More than 200 organizations and individuals from around the world signed an open letter sent today to the Director General and Executive Board of the World Health Organization (WHO) to urge them to reject the partnership offered by the Philip Morris International-funded entity, Foundation for a Smoke Free World (FSFW).   *************** To the Director General and […]

On 24 January 2019, the first day of the 144th session of the Executive Board, the Philip Morris-funded ‘Foundation for a Smoke-free World’ issued an open letter to the WHO Executive Board. WHF and its partners have issued the following statement in response to this attempt at tobacco industry interference in global health decision-making.   ************************************* Distinguished […]

On International Kawasaki Disease Awareness Day, Societi Foundation calls for awareness and action to combat this, the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children. The key and urgent messages to note are the following: Doctors need to EXPECT to see and be READY to treat Kawasaki Disease Kawasaki Disease is increasingly common, more common […]

Global Heart is the principal journal for research, opinion and educational material on the prevention, treatment and control of cardiovascular diseases with a special emphasis on countries with middle and lower economies. The World Heart Federation is pleased to welcome the journal’s new Editor-in-Chief, Diederick E Grobbee, MD, PhD. Diederick Grobbee is Professor of Clinical Epidemiology […]

Our new World Heart Federation (WHF) President Prof Karen Sliwa was featured an issue of the European Heart Journal Cardiopulse after she was elected in June 2016, outlining her background, skills and competencies, and her plans to engage in WHF’s various activities. Read the full article

Happy New Year from all of us at WHF!  We hope that you had a lovely holiday season and you will be blessed with much heart health in 2019. We are happy to share our End of Year Review 2018, which highlights some of the major achievements that we have driven and been a part […]