World Heart Podcasts

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Global Heart Podcast, host Pablo Perel speaks with Prof. Alta Schutte and Prof. Dorairaj Prabhakaran about one of the world’s biggest cardiovascular challenges: hypertension control. From accurate blood pressure measurement to delivering effective treatment at scale, they explore what it will take to improve hypertension care globally. Prof. Schutte explains...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Global Heart Podcast, host Pablo Perel speaks with Prof. Bruce Neal about excess salt consumption, hypertension, and the growing evidence behind potassium-enriched salt substitutes as a practical strategy to reduce cardiovascular disease globally. Prof. Neal explains why traditional salt reduction efforts have struggled, how potassium-enriched salt works, an...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Pablo Perel and co-host Raul Santos are joined by Prof. Karen Sliwa and Prof. Amitava Banerjee to explore the ongoing impact of long COVID and its relationship with cardiovascular disease. Drawing on recent global research, the discussion highlights why long COVID remains a significant public health issue, particularly for people with cardiovascular risk fact...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is hosted by Pablo Perel, Senior Science Advisor at the World Heart Federation. He is joined by Dr. Jilliane Code, researcher, educator and heart transplant recipient, and Dr. Vagner Madrini Junior, cardiologist and Deputy Editor of Global Heart Journal. Together, they explore heart failure from both the lived experience and clinical perspective. Dr. Code shares her p...

Send us Fan Mail World Heart Federation host Shreya Shrikhande speaks with Mike Lane from the Amyloidosis Army and David Gregory from the Amyloidosis Alliance on their powerful journeys with ATTR-CM.  They share the challenges of misdiagnosis, treatment access, community support, and the urgent need for awareness and early detection of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy. Find out more about Tran...

Send us Fan Mail Host Pablo Perel and co-host Prof. Raul Santos talk with Dr Jiao Luo about Mendelian randomisation (MR) in cardiovascular research, what it is, core assumptions (relevance, independence, no horizontal pleiotropy), common pitfalls (weak instruments, population mismatch, non-linearity), and how to read MR papers.  The episode references: Unraveling the Causal Links Between Immune Ce...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Pablo Perel speaks with Mr. Girma Dessie and Dr. Andrew Moran about a powerful example of real-world cardiovascular implementation research from Ethiopia. Mr. Dessie presents a recent study investigating why patients enrolled in a hypertension program were missing follow-up visits, despite strong program support and a standardized care model. The discussion c...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is hosted by Sean Taylor, Director of Science and Public Health at the World Heart Federation, and Shreya Shrikhande, Science and Public Health Officer in the same team. They speak with two patients, Maria and Chandrima, who share their personal journeys with angina. Although their experiences are different—one facing years of uncertainty, the other enduring rapid, se...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore the key findings of the World Heart Report 2025 , which focuses on obesity and cardiovascular disease. The report’s lead authors, Professor Mariachiara Di Cesare from the University of Essex and Professor Francisco Lopez-Jimenez from the Mayo Clinic, delve into why obesity remains one of the most neglected cardiovascular risk factors, how it directly co...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we explore the 2025 WHO guidelines on the use of low-sodium salt substitutes . Prof. Mary L’Abbé , a member of the WHO guideline development group, explains the evidence, recommendations, and key considerations behind this important new guideline. Later, Prof. Jaime Miranda reflects on the global public health implications, implementation challenges, and how salt...

Send us Fan Mail Wrap up February with the latest episode of the World Heart Podcast! This time, hosts Lisa Hadeed and Shreya Shrikhande, PhD welcome Prof. Laurence (Larry) Sperling, a leading expert in preventive cardiology, to discuss the critical connection between influenza and heart health. Prof. Sperling shares key insights on how the flu can increase cardiovascular risks, why the annual flu...

Send us Fan Mail Kick off 2025 with the Global Heart Podcast! Our January episode features Dr. Raul Santos, Global Heart's new Editor-in-Chief, and Dr. Jagat Narula, WHF President, sharing their inspiring visions for advancing global cardiovascular research through Global Heart and the World Heart Federation to improve heart health worldwide.

Send us Fan Mail Join us for the latest episode of the World Heart Federation Podcast , hosted by WHF Senior Science Advisor, Pablo Perel . This time, we welcome Professor David Wood , a global leader in cardiovascular prevention, to discuss the groundbreaking and recently published INTERASPIRE study . Discover its key findings related to the critical gaps in achieving care standards for cardiovas...

Send us Fan Mail In this third episode of our podcast series ‘Global Heart Podcast', World Heart Federation Science Advisor Pablo Perel discusses recent global cardiovascular research on air pollution and explains findings and implications with lead authors of the papers. Mark Miller (Reader, Centre for Cardiovascular Science at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.): World Heart Repor...

Send us Fan Mail In this second episode of our podcast series ‘Global Heart Podcast', World Heart Federation Science Advisor Pablo Perel and Global Heart Journal Editor-in-chief Rick Grobbee discuss recent global cardiovascular research on secondary prevention and explain findings and implications with lead authors of the papers. Clara Chow (Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Heal...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of our new podcast series ‘Global Heart Podcast', World Heart Federation Science Advisor Pablo Perel and Global Heart Journal Editor-in-chief Rick Grobbee discuss recent global cardiovascular research on hypertension and explain findings and implications with lead authors of the papers. Vilma Irazola (Director, Department of Chronic Diseases, Institute f...

Send us Fan Mail 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 W...

Send us Fan Mail 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&apo...

Send us Fan Mail 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 a...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 wil...

Send us Fan Mail 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.