Advancing Women’s Cardiovascular Health Together
2027 Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit
The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Alliance (CWHHA) is inviting Expressions of Interest from organizations interested in co-hosting the 2027 Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit.
Date: Spring 2027
Location: Stay tuned… our host city announcement is coming in late April!
The Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit (CWHHS) is a national event dedicated exclusively to advancing women’s cardiovascular health.
Since its launch in 2016, the Summit has become the national reference point for health professionals, researchers, policymakers, and people with lived experience seeking evidence, innovation, and collaboration to improve outcomes for women across Canada.
Building on the success of five previous Summits, the 2027 Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit will bring together national and international experts to accelerate progress in research, awareness, policy development, and clinical care.
Registration
Registration will offer in-person and virtual options, with rates for regular attendees, trainees, and people with lived and living experience (PWLLE).
Coming soon.
Call for Abstracts
The 2027 Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit will be opening a call for abstracts for poster and rapid-fire oral presentations.
Coming late 2026.
Awards
Recognizing the contributions of extraordinary individuals in advocacy, research, and trainee leadership in the field of heart and vascular health.
Coming soon.
Together, we will transform and enhance Canadian women’s lives through research, awareness, policy development, and care.
This accredited clinical and scientific event fosters knowledge exchange among a diverse audience, including primary care providers, specialists, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, researchers, trainees, policymakers, community partners, people with lived and living experience (PWLLE), and caregivers.
Sex and Gender are complementary concepts but they are not interchangeable.
Sex and Gender are complementary concepts but they are not interchangeable. Sex describes biology, such as hormones and chromosomes, while Gender describes our lived experience and how we move through the world.
It is important that we understand these differences as they impact the amount of clinical knowledge we have specific to women, the appropriateness of clinical best practices used to treat women (such as diagnostic procedures and interventions), how women seek knowledge and care, and so much more.
When we talk about women, we mean all women.
People who identify as women make up just over half of the population in Canada and we choose to take an intersectional approach to understanding health inequities faced by women and how to address them.
We understand that women’s health is shaped by many different and overlapping factors, including sex, indigeneity, race, ability, sexual orientation, education, income, geographic location and more. This includes cisgender and transgender women, and non-binary people.
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