Heart failure is a serious chronic condition where the heart cannot pump enough blood to support the needs of other organs in the body. The most common causes of heart failure include coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction (heart attack), congenital heart defects, or damaged heart valves.
Our Mission: Raising Awareness of Heart Failure
The first patient council to be established by the Global Heart Hub was the Heart Failure Patient Council. This council is an alliance of patient organisations from across the globe, working with heart failure patients and their carers. A priority of the council is to raise awareness of heart failure, promote public and healthcare education and advocate for policy action in an insufficiently recognised and increasingly burdensome disease area.
Our Goals:
The Patient Council is united in the view that heart failure is poorly recognised and not well understood by both the general public and healthcare professionals.
There is global consensus that:
Empower Webinar
Heart Failure – Your Guide to Your Journey
Global Heart Hub and Heart Failure in Lebanon, in collaboration with the American University of Beirut, University for Seniors, hosted this special webinar on August 23, 2023 for anyone looking for information and support around understanding, preventing, or living with heart failure.
Achievements to date:
Currently, members of the Heart Failure Patient Council include:
Dr Marilyn Prasun from The Heart Failure Patient Foundation, USA
Chair, Heart Failure Patient Council
For questions on the Global Heart Hub or how you can join, contact: info@globalhearthub.org