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The World Health Organization has announced the members of the Civil Society Working Group on the third UN High-level Meeting on NCDs, which will take place later this year. The Working Group is comprised of 26 civil society representatives and will be co-chaired by NCD Alliance CEO Katie Dain and WHO Assistant Director-General Svetlana Axelrod. […]

On 27 February, following vigorous advocacy efforts from our members and partners the American Heart Association, New Jersey Representative Chris Smith introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives recognizing the rise of cardiovascular disease as the “world’s leading cause of preventable death and disability and as the global public health crisis of our […]

Emerging Leaders faculty member and Director of the Public Health Foundation of India  (PHFI) has shared with us two e-learning courses that may be of interest to Emerging Leaders and others: a certificate course on tobacco control and a post-graduate diploma in health promotion. Certificate Course on Tobacco Control (CCTC) This course aims to […]

The World Heart Federation has partnered with leading international health consortium Access Accelerated (AA) in our efforts to strengthen cardiovascular health and care. The aim of this partnership is to strengthen and accelerate the World Heart Federation’s current advocacy projects at the global and national level. In the framework of this partnership, the World Heart […]

About Rare Disease Day Rare Disease Day is a globally celebrated date established to bring a greater awareness to uncommon conditions. In Europe, a disease that impacts fewer than 1 in 2,000 people is considered rare. Due to their less substantial numbers, these diseases are the last to be talked about and advocated for, while […]

Last week, WHF CEO Jean-Luc Eiselé and World Hypertension League President Daniel Lackland attended a meeting of the Coalition for Access to NCD Medicines and Products, a PATH initiative dedicated to increasing access to essential medicines and health products for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to reduce the impact of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular […]

Dr. Monika Arora, Executive Director of HRIDAY, Additional Professor at PHFI, and Emerging Leaders faculty member, participated in the Second Global NCD Alliance Forum held at Sharjah from 9 -11 December 2017. The forum provided a prime opportunity to unite and mobilise NCD civil society ahead of the 2018 UN High-level Meeting on NCDs. The […]

The adaptation of the World Heart Federation (WHF) Roadmaps in India is based on the frameworks established by three of the Global CVD Roadmaps: Secondary Prevention, Hypertension and Tobacco Control. In India, this adaptation was led by the Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) and Health Related Information Dissemination Amongst Youth (HRIDAY). The project started with a launch […]

The latest edition of the Lancet (March 2018) includes a study entitled ‘Inequalities in the use of secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease by socioeconomic status: evidence from the PURE observational study’, which presents the first country-specific data on inequalities in use of secondary prevention for CVD in countries at all levels of development and in […]

The World Heart Federation is thrilled to announce that CVD champion and former WHF board member Dr Sania Nishtar will be serving as a co-chair on the newly announced World Health Organization (WHO) Independent Global High-level Commission on NCDs. The commission is comprised of heads of state and ministers, leaders in health and development and […]

The Heart Foundation of Jamaica (HFJ), a member of the World Heart Federation, has joined several other countries in celebrating Heart Month this February. In line with this year’s theme of Healthy Nutrition: Know Your Labels, HFJ has been focusing on the marketing of unhealthy products to children in Jamaica, and pushing for a tax […]