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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 […]

Salim S. Virani, MD, Ph.D., from our 2017 Emerging Leaders cohort, is an Associate Professor in the Cardiovascular Research Section at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas.  He will be attending the ACC Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Florida and will actively participate in the sessions. If you are planning to attend the ACC Scientific […]

The European Heart Journal, the official general cardiology journal of our members the European Society of Cardiology, has published in its latest edition an article summarizing the WHF African Summit, which was held in Khartoum, Sudan on 10 and 11 October 2017 in collaboration with the Pan African Society of Cardiology, African Heart Network and […]

On 26 January, following a review, the World Heart Federation’s Official Relations status with the World Health Organization (WHO) was renewed by the 142nd session of the Executive Board. According to WHO, ‘Official Relations’ status indicates that an organization’s activities are in ‘conformity with the spirit, purposes and principles of WHO’s Constitution’, and ‘contribute significantly […]

Newswise — (NEW YORK — February 1, 2018)  Sandeep Kishore, MD, PhD, Associate Director, The Arnhold Institute for Global Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been named as a member of The National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM’s) first Emerging Leaders Forum. NAM’s Emerging Leaders Forum began in 2016 to increase the NAM’s […]

WHF recently attended the 142nd session of the Executive Board Meeting in Geneva. Below you will find a brief overview of some of the key outcomes of the meeting. Agenda Item 3.1: Draft Thirteenth General Programme of Work WHO Member States adopted a Resolution which recommended the Draft Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13) for […]

The World Heart Federation will host a Special Session at the World Conference on Tobacco or Health on 9 March at 12.20pm, which will focus on the link between cardiovascular disease (CVD) and tobacco. The goal of this session is to demonstrate the role that the CVD community can play in tobacco control and to mobilise […]

The scientific programme of the 17th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, to be held in Cape Town, South Africa on 7-9 March, has been announced. The programme will feature breaking research on e-cigarettes, the impact of tobacco point-of-sale display bans, the growing trend towards flavoured cigarettes and the financial impact of smoking on economies […]