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Think of the United Nations and what image springs to mind? Blue-helmeted peacekeepers, trying to control conflict situations? Multilingual technocrats in suits, out to ‘save the world’? A hot topic for today’s finger-pointing politicians? Popular perceptions of the United Nations can vary hugely, and often eclipse the UN’s basic function as an international organization made […]

WHF Advocacy Team are taking part in RHD Meeting From 13-16 January, the World Heart Federation Advocacy Team will be participating in ‘Rheumatic Heart Disease: from Molecules to the Global Community’, a conference on rheumatic heart disease (RHD) held in Cairo, Egypt. Co-organized by the Aswan Heart Centre and the Pan-African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR), […]

From 23 January to 01 February 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) will host the 140th session of the Executive Board (EB) at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. As always, the World Heart Federation will be participating in this meeting, with our Board Members, members of the advocacy team and WHF Sustaining Partners in […]

The 2016-2017 cohort marks the fourth year of the World Heart Federation Emerging Leaders programme and will focus on access to essential medicines. Applications are now open until 31 January. The Emerging Leaders Programme has been created by the World Heart Federation to form and develop a long-term cadre of experts who collaborate, research, and […]

From 14-18 November, WHF Policy and Advocacy Manager Joanna Markbreiter participated in the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Vancouver, Canada.  This year’s symposium was on the theme of ‘Resilient and responsive health systems for a changing world’ and brought together over 2,000 delegates from 101 countries. The theme of resilience comes at […]

Johanna Ralston on patients and people at the heart of health The outgoing CEO of the World Heart Federation talks about the potentially once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the NCD community to address the fragmentation of the health system and offer joined-up solutions with people at the centre.

The World Heart Federation’s Cholesterol Roadmap is being previewed today at the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2016 in New Orleans, USA. In the Roadmap the WHF calls for more awareness of healthier lifestyles and diet; increased screening and testing for cholesterol in communities; more effective initiation of statin treatment and adherence to drug […]

NEW DELHI, 12 November 2016 – Parties to the global tobacco control treaty now possess the outline of a path toward faster implementation at country level of the lifesaving measures in the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control*, despite mixed results from six days of negotiations. The Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention […]

To mark World Heart Day, over two hundred children and adults were screened for rheumatic heart disease in Asmarat, a suburb of Cairo, Egypt. The echocardiography screenings formed part of Egypt’s Rheumatic Fever / Rheumatic Heart Disease (RF/RHD) Prevention and Control Programme, and marked the beginning of efforts to screen schoolchildren for RHD throughout the […]

WHF President-Elect, Prof David Wood, and WHF Director of Policy & Advocacy, Jeremiah Mwangi, will next week be participating in the WHO Global Dialogue Meeting on the role of non-State actors in supporting Member States in their national efforts to tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The meeting […]

From 3-6 October, the World Heart Federation was delighted to participate in the 63rd session of the WHO Committee Meeting for the Eastern Mediterranean Region. 22 countries – known as Member States – participated in the meeting, which was held in Cairo, Egypt. The World Heart Federation (WHF) was represented by Alastair White, Advocacy Assistant […]