Accelerating progress and driving action to benefit global health
The World Heart Federation 2nd Global Summit on Circulatory Health was held at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre in Singapore on 12 and 13 July 2017 in collaboration with the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology, the Asia-Pacific Heart Network and the Singapore Heart Foundation.
The Summit brought together policymakers and leading thinkers and influencers in health, science and industry to share their insights and strategies to address the question:
How can we create a greater sense of urgency when we’re dealing with the world’s number one killer?
Heart disease and stroke remain the world’s foremost causes of premature death, despite being largely preventable through the mitigation of known risk factors. Diseases of the circulatory system are concentrated in low- and middle-income countries, where over 80% of premature deaths due to heart disease and stroke occur and where rheumatic heart disease continues to exact a vast health burden on the people that can least afford it. Without swift adoption of prevention and intervention strategies, current trends indicate increased global death and disability from preventable non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
The cardiovascular disease (CVD) community and multisectoral partners need to come together to reframe outreach strategies, communication techniques and tools for action in order to raise the priority status of CVD on national and global agendas.
The Global Summit is a forum where politicians, policy-makers, and organizational leaders can engage to foster a renewed sense of urgency, accelerate progress and help to galvanise community action.
Through an interactive programme pairing open discussion in plenary sessions with focused workshops, the Summit aimed to pinpoint both the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of action needed to improve circulatory health.
Three workshop sessions were thematically focused and delegates participated in the workshop that best corresponded to their interests.
The workshop sessions fed directly into the plenary sessions to provide a synopsis of agreed action points and commitments, and foster dialogue between all participants.
The programme of the Summit was organized around three key themes:
1. Knowledge Exchange (National CVD Action Plans/ Access to essential and affordable medicines and technologies / Funding the CVD Fight)
2. Tools for Action (WHO Global HEARTS Package and WHF Roadmaps / Enabling technologies to promote cardiovascular health / Promoting Healthy Cities and Physical Activity)
3. Effective Outreach (Political Advocacy / Communication challenge: Reframing common messaging / Building a civil society movement including the patient voice)
Please find the programme outline here.
The Summit programme is supported, in part, by an independent grant from Pfizer Inc
Manuel Arango
Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation
Samira Asma
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Álvaro Avezu
Director, Research Division, Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology
Tran Quoc Bao
Head, Division of Non-Communicable Disease Control and School Health, General Department of Preventive Medicine, Viet Nam Ministry of Health
Simon Baptist
Economist Intelligence Unit
Douglas Bettcher
Director, Department for Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization
Michael Bloomberg
WHO Global Ambassador for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs), Founder of Bloomberg LP & Bloomberg Philanthropies, and 108th Mayor of New York City (video address)
Truong Bui
Communities for Healthy Hearts, PATH
Fiona Bull
Program Manager, Surveillance & Population Based Prevention, Department for Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases, World Health Organization
Susan Capps
Amgen
Beatriz Champagne
InterAmerican Heart Foundation
Clara Chow
The George Institute
Katie Dain
Executive Director, NCD Alliance
Mike Daube
Professor of Health Policy, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Mohammad Daud
Director, PHC Revitalization Division, Department of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Nepal
Tony Duncan
Heart Foundation of New Zealand
Habib Gamra
African Heart Network
Simon Gillespie
Chief Executive, British Heart Foundation
Rohan Greenland
President, Asia-Pacific Heart Network
Werner Hacke
President, World Stroke Organization
Laksmiati Hanafia
Indonesia Heart Foundation
Richard Hobbs
World Organization of Family Doctors
Richard Horton
Editor-in-Chief, The Lancet
Floris Italianer
CEO, Dutch Heart Foundation
Etienne Krug
Director, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, World Health Organization
Li Choo Kwek-Perroy
Manulife
Daniel Lackland
President, World Hypertension League
Susanne Logstrup
European Heart Network
Dolores Manese
Ministry of Health, Philippines
Helen McGuire
Program Leader, Noncommunicable Diseases, PATH
John Meiners
Chief of Mission Aligned Businesses, American Heart Association (AHA)
Michael Moore
World Federation of Public Health Associations
Gerald Mutungi
Ministry of Health, Uganda
Jagat Narula
Chief of Cardiology, St. Luke’s & Roosevelt Hospital of Mount Sinai
Yih Yng Ng
Singapore Civil Defense Force – MyResponder App
Sania Nishtar
Heartfile
Loise Nyanjau
Ministry of Health, Kenya
Oyere Onuma
Medical Officer, Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention, WHO
Sze Yunn Pang
Director, Hospital to Home, Philips
Fausto Pinto
European Society of Cardiology
Rajakanth Raman
Rainbow Across Borders
Shaukat Sadikot
International Diabetes Federation
S. Subramaniam Sathasivam
Minister of Health, Malaysia
Kui Han Sim
Minister, Cabinet of Sarawak, Malaysia
Sandhya Singh
Ministry of Health, South Africa
Karen Sliwa-Hahnle
Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa
David Stewart
International Council of Nurses
Jack Tan
Chair, Organizing Committee, Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology Congress 2017
Chee Hong Tat
Ministry of Health, Singapore
Kathryn Taubert
Vice President, International Science and Health Strategies, American Heart Association (AHA)
Hung Yong Tay
Singapore Heart Foundation
Maciej Tomaszewski
International Society of Hypertension
Gene Tsoi
World Organization of Family Doctors
Durhane Wong-Reiger
President & CEO, Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders
Amit Yadav
HRIDAY/ Public Health Foundation of India
Shizuya Yamashita
International Atherosclerosis Society
Salim Yusuf
Executive Director, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University
The Summit was an ideal forum to mobilize civil society and where politicians, policy-makers, and organizational leaders could engage on topics at the forefront of circulatory health.
The programme of the Summit allowed participants to:
• Interact both within and outside of sessions with participants from organizations that are working towards the same goals
• Learn about new developments in heart health policy while exchanging knowledge and experience
• Showcase their work while also highlighting areas that need continued and collective action
• Identify areas for potential partnerships by meeting organizations that are working towards similar goals
• Develop strategies to advocate for national CVD plans and discuss successful policies to tackle risk factors for CVD
• Explore how tools such as the WHF Roadmaps and WHO HEARTS package can help achieve their goals
• Contribute in shaping the priorities and common messages going into the UN HLM on NCDs in September 2018
In addition to invited participants, a number of places were available for high-level leadership from among:
• Ministries of Health
• National policy makers
• WHF Partners and Members
• International and non-governmental organizations
• Private sector organizations
• Academia
The Summit workshop and summary slides are attached below for further reference:
• Workshop – Knowledge Exchange – National CVD Plans
• Workshop – Access to Essential & Affordable Medicines and Technologies
• Workshop – Building a civil society movement including the patient voice
• Workshop – Advocacy and Common Messaging
The World Heart Federation would like to thank its Partners in their commitment to supporting the World Heart Federation 2nd Global Summit on Circulatory Health.
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