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A century of impact and a glimpse into the future

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Our centennial celebration at the American Heart Association was more than simply a birthday party. It was a year of reflection on so many aspects of our work that have saved and improved lives. And we’re far from finished. We are excited about the future and how we – powered by our 32 million volunteers, donors, and supporters – will be able to continue progress toward a healthier world.

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A word from our leadership

Nancy Brown, CEO

"Let’s keep the momentum going. Let’s keep the torch burning bright."

Nancy Brown
Chief Executive Officer

Marsha Jones Joseph Wu

"What you can expect from us for the next 100 years: advancing health and hope for everyone, everywhere."

Marsha Jones
Chairperson

Joseph C. Wu, M.D., Ph.D., FAHA
President

Transforming Health Care

Four years ago, we set an aspirational goal to advance cardiovascular health for all, including identifying and removing barriers to health care access and quality. Now the results are in: We achieved all aspects of our 2024 Impact Goal.

Health Care by Food

Today, whether it’s dished up in home kitchens, restaurants or school cafeterias, food remains among the world’s most pressing challenges and opportunities for improving health. The Periodic Table of Food initiative is part of the response.

This science-based approach uses food composition data to discover how climate change affects foods and develops evidence for scaling regenerative agriculture. It’s also delving into diets that can help prevent chronic diseases, which account for 90% of the nation’s $4.5 trillion in annual health care expenditures.

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The Periodic Table of Food celebrated the launch of its scientific and educational resources, tools, data and training to map food quality of the world’s food supply at The Rockefeller Foundation Headquarters in New York City.
Read more: New scientific resources map food components to improve human and environmental health
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The Periodic Table of Food is also collaborating with Health Care by Food, a research initiative with The Rockefeller Foundation, with inaugural partner Kroger, to integrate healthy food into health care delivery as a means of treating and preventing chronic diseases.
Learn more about Health Care by Food

Venturing into the future

Another important way we are transforming care is through American Heart Association Ventures, which is establishing venture capital funds to extend our lifesaving mission in communities across the country. We invest (or loan) money to companies that are commercializing evidence-based medicine. When and if those companies are successful, the returns for that capital get reinvested into the AHA venture funds to enable us to do even more.

Go Red for Women

This signature initiative raises awareness of the No. 1 killer of women: cardiovascular disease.

AHA Go Red for Women Venture Fund (PDF)

Cardeation Capital

The venture capital fund encourages innovation in heart disease and stroke care through investment.

Cardeation Capital expands health care innovation in heart disease and stroke care

Transforming Communities

Working with communities is one of the surest ways to improve public health, and we do that in a number of ways – from teaching CPR to helping remove barriers to equitable health.

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Everyone can be a lifesaver

The American Heart Association is a leader in resuscitation training. We’re relentless about it. That’s because each year in the U.S., more than 356,000 people experience cardiac arrest outside of a hospital, and only 9% survive, most likely because someone nearby took immediate action.

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The Nation of Lifesavers campaign aims to double the rate of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to 20% by 2030, and increase the use of AEDs in public settings.
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Read more: Decades of CPR leadership have enhanced AHA's lifesaving mission
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Last year, more than 1 million people learned Hands-Only CPR in training events across the U.S., with about 10,000 organizations, schools and employers participating live or virtually.
Learn about Hands-Only CPR
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Our mobile CPR unit traveled to Super Bowl LVII in Las Vegas, where participants tackled training to learn the correct rate and depth of CPR compressions.
NFL Player Ambassadors urge fans to learn lifesaving CPR in 90 seconds

Leading Breakthroughs in Science & Technology

One hundred years of milestones have collectively paved the way for more advanced diagnostics, treatment options and preventive measures against heart disease, turning science into real-world solutions.

New technology and improving care

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A scientific statement explored both the promise and limits of artificial intelligence, or AI, in screening and developing new treatments for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease. So far, AI-based digital tools haven’t proved effective enough to justify their widespread use.
AI shows promise but remains limited for heart and stroke care
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The newly launched American Heart Association Center for Telehealth supports prevention through remote education. Prevention through education is taking place at the newly launched American Heart Association Center for Telehealth. The center engaged 4,615 learners in telehealth course offerings in its first year. It also certified more than 350 providers.
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Changing Policy and Systems

The American Heart Association relentlessly pursues changes that improve health.

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Building a Nation of Lifesavers

We are championing legislation to establish cardiac emergency response plans and improve cardiac arrest survival rates in elementary schools and secondary schools nationwide.  Thousands of advocates have been mobilized to enhance the chain of survival in schools.


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Policy appropriations

We supported state and local appropriations campaigns that resulted in over $1.5 billion in public investment and 44 overall policy campaign wins at the state, local and tribal levels.

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Medicaid

We spearheaded efforts to expand Medicaid in 10 remaining states and extend postpartum Medicaid coverage in 48 states and Washington, D.C. Our support in North Carolina, the newest state to expand, led to more than half a million newly eligible North Carolinians enrolled since Dec. 1, 2023.

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Access to healthier food

We promoted healthy school meals in New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Michigan and Delaware, and reached students with 16 million meals in Georgia. We helped expand SNAP benefits for 800,000 recipients in Alabama and North Carolina.

Financial Highlights

These figures show the financial activities of the National Center, regions and all other components of the American Heart Association and its division, the American Stroke Association, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.

2023-24 National Board of Directors

These officers and directors are for this Fiscal Year 2023-2024.

Officers

  • Marsha Jones
     Chairperson
    Port Saint Lucie, FL
  • Joseph C. Wu, MD, PHD, FAHA
     President
    Stanford, CA
  • Lee Shapiro
     Chairperson-Elect
    Chicago, IL
  • Keith Churchwell, MD, FAHA
     President-Elect
    Guilford, CT
  • Raymond P. Vara, Jr.
     Immediate Past Chairperson
    Honolulu, HI
  • Michelle Albert, MD, MPH, FAHA
     Immediate Past President
    San Francisco, CA
  • Linda Gooden
     Treasurer
    Riva, MD

Directors

  • Cheryl Anderson, PHD, MPH, MS, FAHA
    La Jolla, CA
  • Regina Benjamin, MD, MBA
     Bayou La Batre, AL
  • Shawn A. Dennis
     Middleton, WI
  • Tom Greco
    Dallas, TX
  • Mindy Grossman
    New York, NY
  • Ron W. Haddock
     Dallas, TX
  • Robert A. Harrington, MD, FAHA
     Ithaca, NY
  • Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, MD, ScM, FAHA
    Chicago, IL
  • Katie Miller-Smith
    Rogers, AR
  • Manesh Patel, MD, FAHA
    Durham, NC
  • Cheryl Pegus, MD, MPH
    Las Vegas, NV
  • James J. Postl
     Houston, TX
  • Marcella Roberts, ESQ.
     Birmingham, AL
  • Jorge Saucedo, MD, MBA, FAHA
     Milwaukee, WI
  • Bertram L. Scott
    Charlotte, NC
  • Svati Shah, MD, MS, MHS, FAHA
     Durham, NC
  • Bob Swan
    Menlo Park, CA
  • John J. Warner, MD, FAHA
     Columbus, OH