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Global Heart provides a forum for dialogue and education on the prevention, treatment and control of cardiovascular disease worldwide, with a special focus on countries with middle and lower economies.
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Editor-in-Chief: Diederick E. Grobbee, MD, PhD
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Global Heart goes Open Access The World Heart Federation has announced that its official journal, Global Heart, will be available for free online as of January 2020, with no need for a subscription. Previously published issues of the journal will also become freely available under this new scheme.
Global Heart welcomes new Editor-in-Chief The World Heart Federation is pleased to welcome the journal’s new Editor-in-Chief, Diederick E Grobbee, MD, PhD.
Editor-in-Chief
Diederick E. Grobbee, MD, PhD Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Executive Editor
A. Moran Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Deputy Editors
R. Baliga Ohio State University, OH, USA
Y. Chandrashekhar Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
G.T. Gaziano Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
P. Perel World Heart Federation, Geneva, Switzerland
N. Wong, MD University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
Associate Editors
S. Agarwal Mount Sinai Health Systems, New York, USA
E. Arbustini Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy
S. Bansilal Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, USA
M. Huffman Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA
A. Kalra University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
D.S. Kazi San Francisco General Hospital, USA
R.K. Kumar Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kerala, India
G.A. Roth University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
U.K.A. Sampson National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
P. Singh, MD, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
R. Vedanthan Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Global Heritage
M. Ezzati Imperial College London, London, UK
Global Intelligence
J.C. Mohan Institute of Heart and Vascular Diseases, New Delhi, India
Global Learning
R. Afzal McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
P. Boffetta Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Global Orphans
J. Guzman London International Development Centre, London, UK
N. Naik Delhi, India
Global Solutions
K. Kahol Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
S. Lear St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Global Tracking
V.S. Ajay Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
A. Roy All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Global Vigilance
N. Narula New York, New York, USA
S.J. Pocock London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Global Voices
C. Ahsan Bangladesh Medical Association of North America, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
M. Ali Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Global Watch
R. Iyengar St. George’s University, Grenada
S. Mitter Northwestern University, Chicago, USA
Senior Advisory Council
G. Alleyne Pan American Health Organization, North West, Washington, USA
S-H Hong Baek Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, The Republic of Korea
R.O. Bonow Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois, USA
B. Champagne InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Dallas, Texas, USA
A. Chockalingam National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
P. Deedwania University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA
M. Engelgau Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
V. Fuster (Co Chair) Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
H. Greenberg, MD St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, New York, USA
J.G. Harold UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
E.L. Kaplan University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
P. Kelley The National Academics, Washington, Oregon, USA
B. Kelly Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Washington, Oregon, USA
V. Kerry Seed Global Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
D. Labarthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
P.J. Landrigan, MD, MSc Mount Sinai Hospital NY, New York, New York, USA
S.R. Leeder University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
D. Levy Boston University School of Medicine, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
Y. Lijing The George Institute for Global Health, Beijing, China
D. Lloyd-Jones Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA
S. Mendis Heartfile, Geneva, Switzerland
G.A. Mensah National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
R.A. Nugent University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
E. Peprah National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
N. Poulter Imperial College London, London, Switzerland
D. Prabhakaran Centre for Chronic Disease Control, New Delhi, India
P. Puska National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
K.S. Reddy (Co Chair) Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
R. Roberts University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada
S.K. Sharma Mount Sinai Hospital, Levy Place, New York, USA
R. Smith United Health Chronic Diseases Initiative, London, UK
S. Smith University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
A.E. Sumner National Institute of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
K. Taubert World Health Federation, Geneva, Switzerland
M. Woodward The George Institute for Global Health, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia
Y.F. Wu
M. Yacoub Imperial College London, London, UK
S. Yusuf (Co Chair) McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
W. Zoghbi Houston, Texas, USA
Editorial Board
W. Almahmeed Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
D. Alam International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh
S. Alam American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon, New York, USA
E. Alexanderson, MD National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico
K. AlHabib Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
A. Avezum, MD, PhD University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
E. Bossone Cava de Tirreni and Amalfi Coat Hospital, University of Salerno, Italy
A. Budaj Growchowski Hospital, Grenadier, Maryland, USA
J. Carapetis Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
C.W. Chiang Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan
S.A. Cunningham Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
A. Dominiczak University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
M.G. Franzosi Istit. Mario Negri, Milan, Italy
G. Galea WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark
A. Ghaffar Heartfile, Geneva, Switzerland
S. Harrap University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
R. Jackson University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
K.T. Khaw University of Cambridge (Addenbrooke’s Hospital), Cambridge, England, UK
J. Kooner Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM), London, England, UK
S.S. Kothari, MD All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
H. Krum Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
F. Lanas University de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile
P. Laothavorn Heart Association of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand
R. Laxminarayan Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
B. Lewis, MD Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel
J.C. Mbanya University of Yaounde, Yaounde, Cameroon
D. Mozaffarian Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
K. M. V. Narayan Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J.W. Newburger Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
S. Nishtar Heartfile, Islamabad, Pakistan
E.N. Ogola University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
C. Onen Centre for Chronic Diseases, Gabarone, Botswana
K. Ramaiya Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
A. Rodgers The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
M. Roe Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
A. Rubenstein Southern Cone American Center of Excellence for Cardiovascular Health, Buenos Aires, Argentina
K.H. Sim
B. Siswanto Indonesian Heart Association, East Jakarta, Indonesia
K.K. Talwar Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
J. Tan National Heart Centre Singapore Cardiology, Singapore, Singapore
N. Tandon All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
S. Thom Imperial College London, London, England, UK
A. Upadhyaya Medicare National Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal
Volume 14, Issue 3 Pages 195-344 (September 2019)
Volume 14, Issue 2 Pages 99-194 (June 2019) Stakeholder Engagement in T4TR Research in LMICs
Volume 14, Issue 1 Pages 1-98 (March 2019)
Volume 13, Issue 4 Pages 237-540 (December 2018) World Congress of Cardiology & Cardiovascular Health 2018
Volume 13, Issue 3 Pages 139-236 (September 2018) Global Atlas of Cardiovascular Diseases, 2000-2016
Volume 13, Issue 2 Pages 65-138 (June 2018)
Volume 13, Issue 1 Pages 1-64 (March 2018)
Volume 12, Issue 4 Pages 271-360 (December 2017)
Volume 12, Issue 3 Pages 177-270 (September 2017)
Volume 12, Issue 2 Pages 67-176 (June 2017) A New Age for Genetics and Genomics Research in Africa
Volume 12, Issue 1 Pages 1-66 (March 2017) Time to Tackle RHD: Tools, Data, and Frameworks
Volume 11, Issue 4 Pages 369-486 (December 2016) Has Recognition of Global Chronic Disease Reached a Tipping Point?
Volume 11, Issue 3 Pages 267-368 (September 2016) Legacy of Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Volume 11, Issue 2 Pages 171-266 (June 2016) The North Karelia Project
Volume 11, Issue 2, Supplement Pages e1-e203 (June 2016) World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2016
Volume 11, Issue 1 Pages 1-170 (March 2016) Investment in Global Health Research: A Public Private Partnership
Volume 10, Issue 4 Pages 227-340 (December 2015)
Volume 10, Issue 3 Pages 137-226 (September 2015) Controlling the Burden of Chagas Cardiomyopathy: Prevention, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Treatment
Volume 10, Issue 2 Pages 93-136 (June 2015) The World Heart Federation Roadmaps for Reducing Cardiovascular Disease
Volume 10, Issue 2, Supplement Pages e1-e30 (June 2015) 20th Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress XX World Congress of Echocardiography and Allied Techniques 6th Emirates Cardiac Society Congress – 20th Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress XX World Congress of Echocardiography and Allied Techniques 6th Emirates Cardiac Society Congress
Volume 10, Issue 1 Pages 1-92 (March 2015) Implementation Research
Volume 9, Issue 4 Pages 361-512 (December 2014) Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in LMIC
Volume 9, Issue 3 Pages 271-360 (September 2014) Critical Care in Resource-Limited Settings
Volume 9, Issue 2 Pages 185-270 (June 2014) What Do Mummies Tell Us About Atherosclerosis?
Volume 9, Issue 1 Pages 1-184 (March 2014) The Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 9, Issue 1, Supplement Pages e1-e372 (March 2014) World Congress of Cardiology Scientific Sessions 2014
Volume 8, Issue 4 Pages 287-390 (December 2013) Ultrasound in Developing Countries
Volume 8, Issue 3 Pages 185-286 (September 2013) Continued Challenge of Rheumatic Heart Disease
Volume 8, Issue 2 Pages 83-184 (June 2013)
Volume 8, Issue 1 Pages 1-82 (March 2013) Framingham Legacy Issue
Volume 7, Issue 4 Pages 275-380 (December 2012)
Volume 7, Issue 3 Pages 197-274 (September 2012) Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution, and Cardiovascular Health
Volume 7, Issue 2 Pages 87-196 (July 2012) TOBACCO AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Volume 7, Issue 1 Pages 1-86 (March 2012) Supporting Country-Led Approaches to NCD Prevention and Control
Volume 6, Issue 4 Pages 125-224 (December 2011) 2011: A Turning Point for Global Cardiovascular Health
