Events & Presentations
Men and women are different in many ways, and that includes how they experience heart and vascular health.
Educating women significantly increases their willingness and ability to take heart-protective action. That’s why the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance works to inform women and their loved ones about heart disease and the steps they can take to reduce their risk.
The CWHHA is proud to offer free in-person and online presentations for youth, healthcare providers, and the general public.
Presentations are tailored specifically to each audience and cover:
- What heart disease is
- How heart disease is different in women, including signs and symptoms
- Risk Factors for heart disease
- How you can take heart healthy action
- Tips for talking with your health care provider
The presentations are typically one hour in length (45 min presentation + 15 min Q&A) and are led by either a healthcare provider and/or a person with lived experience.
For the General Public
Request a presentation for your community group or other social networks.
For Youth
Request a presentation for your high school class or other community youth groups.
For Healthcare Providers
Request a presentation for your clinic, Grand Rounds, or other hospital programs and units.
There are many ways to show your support for women’s heart and vascular health:
- Download the Event Planning Template to help you organize your activity.
- Access the Campaign Toolkit for promotional materials, social media templates, and more.
- Tell us about your event so we can help promote it! Submit an event
Not sure where to start? Explore these ideas:
Listed below are a few ideas and categories to get you started. Feel free to go beyond this list!
Physical Activity
- Register a team for the Wear Red Canada Movement Challenge
- Zumba or dance session
- Stair climbing challenge
- Yoga session
- Meditation class
- Exercise in-person meet up
Nutrition
- Healthy food bake sale
- Luncheon or dinner event
- Decorate your own healthy heart cookie
Entertainment
- Trivia night
- Movie night
- Scavenger hunt
- Games night
- Heart healthy BINGO
Other ideas
- Loonie/toonie line
- Wear RED day
In consideration for participating or organizing any Wear Red Canada event(s), I do hereby forever release any and all liability, discharge, and agree not to sue the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, its representatives, directors, officers, employees, agents, affiliates, successors and permitted assigns (“UOHI”) and/or any other supporter or contributor to the program, and agree to hold and save them harmless and indemnify them from and against any and all liabilities, claims, injuries, losses, damaged, expenses, demands, actions, and causes of action of whatsoever kind or nature arise out of or related to any such loss, damage or injury that may be sustained by me for whatever reason while participating or organizing in any Wear Red Canada event(s) or upon the premises or grounds where the event(s) takes place or through the online platform where the event(s) takes place, whether such damages are the result of negligence or for any other reason.
Tell us about your event!
Send us all the details about your upcoming event so we can promote it on our Events page!