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Understanding your condition, making mindful choices and ensuring you have the right support will help you move towards a healthy and rewarding life.

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A problem too big to ignore

Our new campaign highlights that while survival rates have improved, heart disease remains one of the nation’s biggest killers.

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Get simple steps to protect your heart with practical tips, recipes and heart health information in your inbox each month.

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United to #ENDRHD

Be part of the World Congress on Rheumatic Heart Disease in Perth, 11–14 Nov 2026 - connecting researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience and advocates. Discover new evidence, share breakthroughs and explore practical solutions to end RHD. Register now.

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Evidence into action

Explore the Heart Foundation's Blueprint for an Active Australia, 4th edition. Developed with leading physical activity experts, the Blueprint features evidence-based actions to create more active communities across the nation.

A life transformed by a rare heart condition

Dr Geoff Lester shares his remarkable story of survival and how it inspired him to become a doctor.

Making heart care fairer

Dr Sonia Shah is studying people’s DNA to uncover hidden differences in heart disease risk and improve representation in cardiovascular research.

Can AI prevent the next heart attack?

Meet Dr Sarang Paleri, a cardiologist and PhD candidate at Monash University and the Victorian Heart Hospital. His Heart Foundation-funded research is testing how AI could help detect heart disease earlier and improve care.

By identifying dangerous plaque sooner, his research could help doctors intervene before a heart attack occurs.

Tools and resources to keep your heart healthy

Heart Age Calculator

Take the heart age test to check your heart health. Use our heart health check calculator to understand your risk of heart disease and heart attacks.

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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.

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Blood pressure and your heart

Learn how blood pressure affects your heart health. Find out what high blood pressure means, how to measure it, and ways to keep it under control.

Ways to get involved

Visit the Heartshop

Every purchase helps fund lifesaving heart research.

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Fundraise for us

Community fundraising for heart health.

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Get walking

Walk your way with a free Personal Walking Plan.

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Create impact through meaningful, purpose-driven work.

Latest news and media

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$14.5 million boost for innovative heart research across Australia

Heart Foundation announces major funding support of 67 projects focused on AI, women’s heart health, stroke recovery

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It’s shockingly simple to help save a life – just use an AED!

South Australians are being urged to use an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in the event of a cardiac arrest, with a local campaign launching to highlight how simple AEDs are to use.

HF welcomes Strep A research breakthrough

A Heart Foundation-supported discovery sheds light on Strep A immunity, helping advance efforts to prevent rheumatic heart disease.