Membership benefits
Through engagement with the World Heart Federation, members are empowered and enabled to:
- Advance the global fight against cardiovascular disease
- Learn and share your knowledge with international colleagues
- Connect to the international community and peers
- Raise your organization’s global profile
- Access comprehensive campaign toolkits
- Save substantially on events and materials
- Seize the opportunity to work with corporate sponsors
For more information about the benefits for your organization, please see the information below.
Advance the global fight against cardiovascular disease
- Drive the global health vision of the World Heart Federation through voting in the General Assembly*
- Influence national and international health and development agendas, policies and programmes by participating in members’ meetings, workshops, web conferences and providing strategic input into local, national, regional and global lobbying instruments
- Raise the priority and awareness of cardiovascular disease (CVD) amongst the general public, healthcare professionals, governments and policy makers through collective letter writing campaigns, adoption of template materials and toolkits provided exclusively to members and direct advocacy with decision makers where appropriate
- Effect policy and advocacy change through World Heart Federation’s projects and workshops using a bottom-up approach
- Participate in regional World Health Organization meetings to represent the CVD burden and needs of your constituency: we at the World Heart Federation advocate for our members’ representation at these meetings
Learn and share your knowledge with international colleagues
- Learn and keep abreast of global CVD developments through our quarterly newsletters, members’ emails and advocacy and science news updates
- Share your knowledge of CVD, research, education/training and policy/advocacy by participating in our scientific and congress committees and writing groups
- Promote your work by contributing articles to our newsletter and website as well as providing case studies for our toolkits and campaign materials, and learn from others’ contributions
- Increase capacity and communicate best practice through participating in World Heart Federation’s projects and workshops with experts from the field, researchers, programme managers and public health workers
- Submit session proposals for symposia, debates, meet the experts and how-to sessions at the World Congress of Cardiology
Connect to the international community and your peers
- Take advantage of the access to global experts and key thought leaders by contacting the World Heart Federation for speakers or leadership representation at your meetings and events, as well as spokespersons for your local media activities
- Network with colleagues from heart foundations and cardiac societies worldwide through members’ meetings, workshops, the General Assembly and World Congress of Cardiology members-only events
- Work with international health and development experts to create advocacy and communications strategies by representing the World Heart Federation on panels and in working groups and committees (by invitation)
- Reach a global network of experts through a members’ directory of contacts, which connects you to your peers and colleagues worldwide
Raise your organization’s global profile
- Gain global visibility for your organization by profiling your activities through the World Heart Federation website, social media channels, newsletters and through listings on our World Congress of Cardiology booth, promotional material and other publications
- Represent the World Heart Federation and global fight against CVD at national, regional and international conferences and meetings (permission required)
- Exclusive opportunity to host the World Congress of Cardiology and to submit or organize a session
- Enhance awareness building and your fundraising opportunities by adopting the World Heart Federation’s branded campaigns
- Benefit from the World Heart Federation’s endorsements and logo use (permission required) and promotion of your events and meetings through its website
Access comprehensive campaign toolkits
- Implement our “ready-to-use” awareness campaign for World Heart Day: the largest global awareness campaign on heart disease and stroke with over 100 countries taking part every year; and Go Red for Women, which specifically aims to raise awareness that heart disease and stroke is the number one killer of women too - a little known fact
- Benefit from these and other comprehensive toolkits which include a media strategy, factsheets, global statistics, fundraising and public relations guides, a press release template, key images, high-resolution marketing materials, case studies, posters and leaflets and contacts for support
Save substantially on events and materials
- Receive more than a 90% discount on a booth and exhibit at the World Congress of Cardiology, and almost 20% on each additional square metre
- Pay 40% less for a subscription to the journal Global Heart and 25% less for the science journal Nature Reviews Cardiology (for national members and their members), and receive a discount on Eat for Goals!, a children’s recipe book that promotes healthy eating and activity, created in partnership with UEFA
- Adopt the World Heart Federation’s awareness campaigns and avoid the time and development costs of creating your own material
Seize the opportunity to work with corporate sponsors
- Work with selected corporate sponsors at a local or regional level on campaign materials and initiatives