Advancing Women’s Cardiovascular Health Together
Canadian Women's Heart Health Summit
April 16 – 17, 2027
RBC Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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).
Call for Abstracts
The 2027 Canadian Women’s Heart Health Summit is now accepting abstracts submissions for poster and rapid-fire oral presentations.
Awards
Recognizing the contributions of extraordinary individuals in advocacy, research, and trainee leadership in the field of heart and vascular health.
2027 Summit Objectives:
1. Advance Research
Showcase leading research, innovation, and emerging evidence that advances women’s cardiovascular health across the lifespan while promoting collaboration and knowledge exchange among researchers, clinicians, trainees, and persons with lived and living experience.
2. Improve Clinical Care
Promote evidence-informed, person-centred approaches that improve the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term management of cardiovascular disease in women.
3. Strengthen National Collaboration
Foster meaningful partnerships and interdisciplinary collaboration among clinicians, researchers, educators, policy-makers, community organizations, trainees, industry partners, and persons with lived and living experience to advance women’s cardiovascular health across Canada.
4. Identify Emerging Priorities and Gaps
Provide a national forum to identify emerging evidence, research priorities, health system gaps, and opportunities for innovation that will help shape future research, education, advocacy, clinical practice, and policy.
5. Advance Equity and Implementation
Promote equitable, inclusive, and culturally responsive approaches to women’s cardiovascular health by supporting the implementation of evidence into practice and addressing disparities in care, access, and outcomes.
6. Build Capacity and Inspire Future Leaders
Support the next generation of leaders in women’s cardiovascular health by fostering mentorship, professional development, leadership opportunities, and meaningful engagement of trainees, early-career professionals, and persons with lived and living experience.
7. Mobilize Knowledge and Drive Impact
Facilitate the exchange and implementation of evidence, innovative practices, and lived experience to accelerate improvements in women’s cardiovascular health research, clinical care, education, advocacy, and public policy.
Together, we will transform and enhance Canadian women’s lives through research, awareness, policy development, and care.
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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