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Emerging Leaders Programme

Emerging Leaders Programme

Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme

Shaping the Future of Cardiovascular Health

The WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme was created to develop a long-term cadre of experts who collaborate, research and act to reduce premature mortality from cardiovascular disease globally. The Programme, developed by Dr Salim Yusuf in 2014, provides training and networking opportunities in cardiovascular health policy and implementation science for healthcare practitioners, researchers, and global health advocates.

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Become an Emerging Leader

Join our growing global community of CVD experts and advocates. Applications for the Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme 2026 are now open.

Become an Emerging Leader

“Reasons to apply to join the Emerging Leaders Programme? Fantastic peers, mentors and networks. Reasons not to? None. Join a growing community of early-career professionals focused on global approaches to CVD prevention.”

Prof Amitava Banerjee WHF Board Member 2025-2026 & Emerging Leader 2014
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Join our growing global community of CVD experts and advocates. Applications for the Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme 2026 are now open.

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· WHF Science department

Emerging Leaders Programme 2026: Applications are now open

The World Heart Federation (WHF) has announced details of the Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme 2026, which will take place from 29 November to 3 December 2026 in Florence, Italy….
World Heart Federation emerging leaders announced
· WHF Advocacy department

2025 Emerging Leaders cohort announced

The 2025 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 25 countries across 5 continents, has been announced The World Heart Federation created the WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme to…
· WHF Communications department

Emerging Leaders Programme 2025: Applications are now open

Applications are now open for the Emerging Leaders Programme 2025, which will focus on leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the field of cardiovascular disease (CVD), with an emphasis on Implementation Science….
2024 Emerging Leaders cohort announced
· WHF Communications department

2024 Emerging Leaders cohort announced

The 2024 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 21 countries across 5 continents, has been announced The World Heart Federation created the WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme to…
WHF - Emerging Leaders Programme 2024
· WHF Communications department

Emerging Leaders Programme 2024: Applications are now open

Applications are now open for the Emerging Leaders Programme 2024, which will focus on fixed-dose combination therapies for cardiovascular disease. Now in its tenth year, the WHF Emerging Leaders Programme…
2023 Emerging Leaders cohort: Digital health and cardiovascular disease
· WHF Communications department

2023 Emerging Leaders cohort: Digital health and cardiovascular disease

The 2023 Emerging Leaders Seminar took place in Sydney, Australia and brought together a team of Emerging Leaders from 19 countries across five continents. Between 16 and 20 October 2023,…
World Heart Federation emerging leaders announced
· WHF Communications department

2023 Emerging Leaders cohort announced

The 2023 Emerging Leaders cohort, which includes candidates from 19 countries across 5 continents, has been announced. The World Heart Federation created the WHF Salim Yusuf Emerging Leaders Programme to…
A group of World Heart Federation emerging leaders posing for a photograph
· WHF Communications department

Emerging Leaders Programme 2023: Applications are now open

Applications are now open for the Emerging Leaders Programme 2023, which will focus on digital health across cardiovascular diseases (such as Coronary Heart Disease, Atrial Fibrillation and Hypertension). Now in its ninth…
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· WHF Communications department

World cardiology leaders call for global action to reinvent randomised clinical trials

Sophia Antipolis, 16 December 2022:  The current model for randomised clinical trials must be redesigned for the 21st century, according to the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), American Heart Association…

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