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550,000
Heart Health Checks completed since 2019
41 years
of Jump Rope for Heart in Aussie schools
$13.5m
committed to heart health research in 2023
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MyHeart MyLife community
The MyHeart MyLife community is a safe online group moderated by the Heart Foundation where you can share your experience living with a heart condition, give and receive support, and discover ways to lead a heart healthy life with others who are on a similar recovery journey.
Jess and Bryan’s heart story
Every year in Australia, 25,000 people experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Jess lost her husband, Bryan, to a sudden cardiac arrest in 2015. Eight years on she continues to share her story in the hope that she can help others understand the risks. Watch Jess’ emotional story and how new groundbreaking research from Dr Elizbeth Paratz is helping to make real progress in the fight against sudden cardiac death.
Tools and resources to keep your heart healthy
Is your heart feeling your age?
Could you be at risk of heart disease? Get your estimated heart age now.
Time to book a Heart Health Check?
A Heart Health Check with your GP will help you understand your risk of having a heart attack or stroke in the next 5 years and what you can do to prevent it.
Blood pressure and your heart
Blood pressure is the pressure of your blood on the walls of your arteries as your heart pumps it around your body. Your blood pressure will go up and down naturally throughout the day depending on what you are doing, especially if you are doing exercise.
Q&A with Heart Foundation funded researcher - Dr Thanh Nho Do
After receiving a Heart Foundation Vanguard Grant in 2020, Dr Thanh Nho Do has spent the last 3 years designing a soft skin-like robotic device that can help people with heart failure.
With new technology that will wrap around the heart using soft artificial muscles, and a miniature controller implanted under a person’s skin, this new device can improve the heart’s pumping action.
Read more about Dr Do’s research and how he believes his research will make a difference to people’s cardiovascular health in Australia.
Ways to get involved
Do it for Heart
Become a Heart Foundation fundraiser and make a real difference to your community.
Volunteer with us
Join our volunteers and make a difference to the heart health of Australians.
Visit the Heart Shop
Every purchase helps fund lifesaving research in to heart disease.
Workplace giving
Workplace giving is a simple and tax effective way for employees to make regular donations to a cause they care about.
Latest news and media
Walking Wins: the next big step in fight against heart disease
Major campaign to get 400,000 more Australians moving
It’s time: Australia primed for first-ever heart disease screening program
Heart Foundation makes 2024-25 Federal Budget Submission for life-saving and evidence based targeted national screening program
Heart Foundation and Heart of the Nation join forces to save more lives from sudden cardiac death
The two organisations have just signed a Memorandum of Understanding to bolster community and Government action relating to CPR and defibrillator access and use.