Children in the City gathers pace in Romania
10 December, 2015
Children in the City gathers pace in Romania The Children in the City project in Romania has been developed by the World Heart Federation (WHF) and the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), in partnership with the Romanian Heart Foundation, to promote physical activity in children aged 7 to 12 living in low-income urban […]
Join the WHO Virtual Global Discussion Forum on the Prevention and Control of Non Communicable Diseases
4 December, 2015
9 to 18 December 2015 The World Health Organization (WHO) is inviting multiple international, national and civil society stakeholders engaged in activities associated with the control and prevention of NCDs to share their knowledge, resources and experience, and add their voice and opinion to this Global Virtual Discussion Forum. […]
Alert: CSI meeting in Chennai postponed due to deadly floods
4 December, 2015
The 67th annual conference of our member the Cardiological Society of India (CSI) 03-06 December in Chennai has been postponed due to the heaviest rains Southern India has seen in over a century.
Join the Novartis Foundation hypertension management workshop/webcast on 1 December
30 November, 2015
At the heart of it: innovation and scale in hypertension management in low- and middle-income countries, is one of a series of dialogues spearheaded by the Novartis Foundation global health issues. It is co-hosted with the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Centre of Global Non Communicable Diseases and takes place: Tuesday, 1 December […]
Dialogue on how to Strengthen International Cooperation on the Prevention and Control of NCDs
27 November, 2015
From 30 November to 1 December, the World Heart Federation will be attending the ‘Dialogue on how to Strengthen International Cooperation on the Prevention and Control of NCDs’ at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. This discussion is part of the ongoing work of the WHO’s GCM-NCD project (Global Coordinating Mechanism for NCDs), which […]
‘Sharjah Declaration’ adopted
18 November, 2015
Civil society organisations from six Continents united in the fight against NCDs More than 200 civil society representatives from six continents adopted the “Sharjah Declaration on NCDs: Civil Society United Towards 2030″ yesterday, marking the end of the first-ever Global NCD Alliance Forum 2015, held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). “No one sector alone […]
Calling attention to access barriers to treatment for children in developing countries
16 November, 2015
A new brief from World Heart Federation member Children’s HeartLink, Finding The Invisible Child: Childhood Heart Disease and the Global Health Agenda, calls attention to access barriers to treatment for millions of children in developing countries in need of care. This is the second in a series of four briefs about cardiovascular disease (CVD) […]
World Heart Federation is proud to support World Diabetes Day on 14 November
13 November, 2015
Diabetes is one of the main risk factors for cardiovascular disease, which makes it particularly important for the World Heart Federation to lend our support to the campaign and its objectives and this year, as ever, we are proud to do so. World Diabetes Day was created in 1991 by IDF and the World […]
The first Global NCD Alliance Forum takes place in Sharjah, UAE, from 13 to 15 November
12 November, 2015
The Global NCD Alliance Forum has been organized under the banner theme of ‘NCD Advocacy and Accountability in the Post-2015 Era’. This is […]
Nominations for board
11 November, 2015
Members – please nominate candidates to the World Heart Federation Board! We are seeking candidates for the positions of president-elect, vice president-elect, secretary-treasurer and at-large roles based on skills and geography for the 2017-2018 Board. Elections to be held at the General Assembly, June 2016. Nominate today.