Heart Foundation launches transformative 25-year vision: Health for Every Heart

Media release: Tuesday 29 July 2025

Bold targets aim to make heart health achievable for everybody by 2050

The Heart Foundation is today launching Health for Every Heart, its generational strategy to ensure heart health becomes a reality for everybody in Australia by 2050.

The new vision was unveiled in an event at Parliament House in Canberra, alongside the the Heart Foundation’s first five year Health for Every Heart strategy (2025–2029).

Health for Every Heart sets bold, measurable targets that will drive the national change required to reduce the death and burden of heart disease.

Targets to achieve by 2050 under the vision include:

• Slashing cholesterol rates by 50 percent;
• Cutting heart disease caused by dietary risk factors by 50 percent;
• More than 75 percent of people in Australia meeting recommended physical activity levels
• More than 80 percent of the eligible population having had a clinical Heart Health Check
• A boost in sudden cardiac arrest survival rates from 10 percent to 30 percent
• The rise of overweight and obesity will have been halted, and current prevalence will have reduced by 20 percent.

To reach these targets, the strategy focuses on four strategic goals:

• Preventing, detecting and managing risk early: innovating risk prediction tools, extending Heart Health Checks, and reaching younger age groups earlier in life.
• Effectively managing heart disease and preventing further events: improving access to culturally responsive care, rehabilitation support and lifesaving programs like CPR training and AED accessibility.
• Creating environments enabling healthy behaviours: tackling determinants such as air pollution, obesity, food environments and tobacco/vaping exposure.
• Advancing heart health equity: stopping disparities for First Nations peoples, rural and remote communities, women, culturally diverse and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups.

Progress will be reported and updated in five year strategic cycles, enabling the Foundation to set interim targets, monitor progress, incorporate new evidence, and keep advancing towards the 2050 vision.

Comments attributable to David Lloyd, Heart Foundation CEO

“Health for Every Heart represents our most ambitious and far-reaching commitment since the Heart Foundation was founded in 1961.

“We envision an Australia where heart health is no longer a privilege, but a reality for everyone, regardless of language, location or background.

“Health for Every Heart was developed through consultation with researchers, clinicians, people with lived experience, governments, volunteers and donors.

“The Heart Foundation calls on governments, communities, industry, health professionals, our charitable commercial sector partners, and all Australians to join this movement.”

Read the Heart Foundation’s 25-year vision for heart health in Australia: https://www.heartfoundation.org.au/health-for-every-heart