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WHF invites any professional global, regional, and national civil society organizations with a role in circulatory health to register their interest in joining the Global Coalition for Circulatory Health. The Global Coalition for Circulatory Health brings together international, regional and national stakeholders in circulatory health to drive the urgent action needed to combat heart disease and stroke, […]

The Emerging Leaders website now has a Resources page where you will be able to find all the latest resources and papers related to the Emerging Leaders Programme. This includes a paper published this month in Global Heart, which is authored by members of the 2014 cohort and is the end result of the CARDIOMAPPS project. […]

From 22-23 November, WHF participated in a Special Session of the WHO Executive Board in Geneva, Switzerland, held to discuss the Draft 13th General Programme of Work (GPW13) for the years 2019-2023. GPW13 sets out three strategic priorities for WHO: ‘Health Coverage’, ‘Health Emergencies’ and ‘Health Priorities’, with a vision to ‘Promote health, keep the […]

On November 27, 2017, the World Heart Federation met together with a multi-stakeholder group of experts representing different scientific bodies and patient associations, and the Deusto Business School Health (DBS Health) to brainstorm how to address the urgent situation of cholesterol in Spain.  Prior to this meeting there was a situational analysis conducted which allowed […]

As the World Heart Federation prepares to mark its 40th anniversary in 2018, President David Wood speaks to the European Heart Journal about the WHF’s growing international reach and its dynamic leadership that will continue to drive the global fight against CVD in the years ahead. Read the full article on the European Heart Journal 

On November 16, 2017, the World Heart Federation, Colombian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery (Sociedad Colombiana de Cardiología), Ministry of Health, and Academy & Civil Society of Colombia convened and committed to take decisive actions to decrease by 7,000 the number of myocardial infarctions per year by 2025 in Colombia, resulting in a 25% […]

WHO Headquarters during the Sixty-eight World Health Assembly, Palais des Nations, Geneva. Photo by Violaine Martin. From 22-23 November 2017, the World Heart Federation will participate in a Special Session of the WHO Executive Board, held in Geneva, Switzerland. This additional meeting has been convened by WHO to discuss the Draft 13th General Programme of […]

From the 2-4 December an event will take place in Cape Town, South Africa to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first human heart transplant. Fifty years ago, on 3 December 1967, the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant was performed by Dr Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. This was, and probably […]

The 2018 United Nations High-level Meeting on NCDs (UN HLM), which will likely take place in September at the UN Headquarters in New York, will be the third High-level Meeting on NCDs. The meeting provides a platform for governments to review progress made since the 2011 Political Declaration on NCDs and the 2014 Outcome Document […]

On 1st November 2017, the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) Rheumatic Heart Disease Support Group and RHD Action – of which the World Heart Federation is a founding member – hosted an interactive event entitled ‘Listen to my Heart’ at the Mulago Guest House in Kampala, Uganda. Attended by people living with rheumatic heart disease (PLWRHD), […]

“RHD is a big problem here – it causes a lot of mortality. We have convened this meeting to find a way forward”, said Dr Emmy Okello, an interventional cardiologist at the Uganda Heart Institute, in his opening remarks to the RHD Uganda Stakeholders’ Meeting. Taking place from 2-3 November 2017 at the Protea Hotel […]