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World Heart Day takes place on 29th September every year and is the World Heart Federation‘s and the world’s biggest platform for raising awareness about cardiovascular disease, including heart disease and stroke. This year, our campaign focuses on creating a global community of Heart Heroes … people from all walks of life who are acting now to […]

What led to your interest in health? I started my career as a demographer, mainly interested in reproductive health. After having finished my PhD, I got involved in a series of projects with the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean United Nations on the interaction between population dynamics and health. It is really […]

The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is a public private initiative that has collaboratively evolved as a response to redress the limited institutional capacity in India for strengthening training, research and policy development in the area of Public Health. These courses commenced in 2011 as a capacity building initiative for those looking to gain […]

In recent years, air pollution and its impact on people’s health has become a significant issue on the global health agenda. Nine out of ten people worldwide breathe polluted air, which disproportionately affects those living in low-resource settings. According to a recent World Health Organisation report, more than twenty percent of all cardiovascular disease deaths are caused by air […]

The 2019 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 18 countries across 5 continents, has been announced. The WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme was created by the World Heart Federation to form and develop a long-term cadre of experts who collaborate, research, and act to reduce premature mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) globally. The 2019 cohort marks […]

[Spanish version below] Delegates at the 72nd World Health Assembly (WHA) have today approved the creation of a World Chagas Day. People affected by Chagas worldwide celebrate this important step in fighting for recognition of this neglected disease. Geneva, 24 May 2019 – The International Federation of People Affected by Chagas Disease (FINDECHAGAS) today celebrates […]

Chagas Disease affects more than 7 million people worldwide, but only 1 in 10 are diagnosed and less than 1% receive treatment. When left untreated, Chagas can cause serious heart and digestive system problems – 12,000 people die each year from causes associated with the disease. Chagas often affects the poorest and most marginalised, and like other neglected tropical diseases, it has been […]

On 25 May last year, the World Health Organization and its Member States took a momentous step as they adopted a Resolution on Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. In recognition of the urgent need to prevent and control RF and RHD, 23 different countries across 5 continents […]

On 6 March, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the details of far-reaching organisational reform and the reshuffling of the WHO’s top leadership. The new structure aims to reduce “silos” within the organisation and to promote “one WHO”. For example, there will only be one Deputy Director-General (DDG) reporting to Dr Tedros:  Zsuzsanna Jakab, […]

On 20 April, the President of the UN General Assembly and the World Health Organization (WHO) convened an interactive hearing with non-state actors as part of the preparatory process for the UN High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) on 23 September 2019. The hearing was an opportunity for civil society and other stakeholders […]

The burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) is significant in Kenya, where heart diseases cause 25 percent of hospital admissions and 13 percent of deaths. To tackle this health challenge, the Ministry of Health (MoH) in Kenya joined forces with the Kenya Cardiac Society (KCS) and the World Heart Federation (WHF) to […]