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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 […]

VOTE NOW TEXTCARE is a personalised text messaging program designed to support people with a whole range of chronic diseases. It uses complex algorithms to deliver SMS’s such as encouraging people to take their medications as prescribed, to stop smoking, take up exercise or eat more healthily. They cost just 10 cents a message. As […]

To mark World Heart Day, the BHF, Public Health England (PHE) and NHS Choices (NHSC) are encouraging people to use an innovative online tool to find out how old their heart is and know their cardiovascular risk. The older a person’s heart age, the higher their risk of a cardiovascular event, such as a stroke […]

On World Heart Day, the International Diabetes Federation in Belgium has released a new report on diabetes and heart disease. The report examines the information available on the world-wide impact of diabetes and heart disease and offers impactful solutions to deal with the problem. The International Diabetes Federation calls on governments to instigate the following […]

The call to policymakers and governments was made at 5pm on 22 September by WHF at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Hearts Initiative meeting and comes one week ahead of World Heart Day 2016. WHF points to three practical steps that policymakers can take to collect reliable data which will provide the evidence needed […]