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In this second episode of our new podcast series 'Data at the Heart', journalist Tony Johnston talks to Sarah Des Rosiers, Director of Health Equity at the Novartis Foundation. Sarah manages strategic public-private partnerships to advance the response against cardiovascular diseases worldwide, leveraging the power of data and digital for population health impact.

The World Heart Observatory is the first global data hub for cardiovascular conditions and risk factors. It combines data from different sources to provide the latest, most accurate information on the global burden of cardiovascular disease: https://worldheartobservatory.org/

This episode is supported by Novartis Foundation.

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In this first episode of our new podcast series 'Data at the Heart', journalist Tony Johnston engages in a compelling conversation with Mariachiara Di Cesare, Professor in Population Studies and Global Health and Director of the Institute of Public Health and Wellbeing at the University of Essex. Chiara has played a pivotal role in shaping the World Heart Federation's World Heart Observatory and is lead author of the World Heart Report 2023.

The World Heart Observatory is the first global data hub for cardiovascular conditions and risk factors. It combines data from different sources to provide the latest, most accurate information on the global burden of cardiovascular disease: https://worldheartobservatory.org/

This episode is supported by Novartis Foundation.

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A limited-edition podcast series on women and cardiovascular health

Women and cardiovascular health is a topic close to our hearts and at the centre of the activities of many of our Members. This year, our podcast Conversations from the Heart will take a deep dive into gender equity as a way of improving heart health for everyone.  To mark International Women's Day 2022, we are kicking off with women in cardiology: the role they play in the workforce, in patient-physician relationships and in changing the culture of cardiology. 

We speak with two young cardiologists from Sri Lanka and Iraq, who are at the forefront of promoting gender equity and who are also WHF’s Emerging Leaders. Aaysha Cader is an interventional cardiologist originally from Sri Lanka and currently working at the Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh;  Zainab Atiyah Dakhil, is an academic and interventional cardiologist working at Ibn AlBitar Cardiac Centre Baghdad, Iraq. They share with our listeners the source of their drive to help people and why they  chose cardiology, despite the hurdles they encountered along the way.  

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Join us to listen to the Interview of Prof Srinath Reddy, president of the Public Health Foundation of India and formerly headed the Department of Cardiology at All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

Widely regarded as a leader of preventive cardiology at national and international levels, Reddy has been a researcher, teacher, policy enabler, advocate and activist who has worked to promote cardiovascular health, tobacco control, appropriate nutrition across the life course, chronic disease prevention and healthy living across the lifespan.

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Today, we have the pleasure to speak with Prof. Liesl Zuhlke, a paediatric cardiologist in Cape Town, an emerging leader in cardiovascular medicine on the African continent. If you check her biography online you will find out that her major research interests lie in Rheumatic Heart Disease and congenital heart disease but today we will offer more than this to our listeners, we will find out from her about her life, her passions, and fears, why she chose this path in life, what inspires her, and what she sees as a hurdle in her job and globally in public health. 

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Today we have the pleasure to speak with Prof Salim Yusuf, a renowned cardiologist, WHF Past President, Distinguished Professor of Medicine at McMaster University and Executive Director of the Population Health Research Institute (PHRI).

For the last 40 years, his research has played a key role in improving CVD treatment and prevention in different parts of the world.