American Heart Association
American non-profit health organization
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| 2024 | Keith B. Churchwell becomes the volunteer president of the American Heart Association |
| 2024 | American Heart Association launches its 2024 Impact Goal focused on advancing cardiovascular health equity, aiming to identify and remove barriers to health care access and quality for all people. |
| October 2024 | The American Heart Association announced a grant to improve heart health in rural communities, funding initiatives that address healthcare access and education in underserved areas. |
| June 2024 | The American Heart Association celebrated its 100-year anniversary, recognized as the nation's oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. The celebration included CPR training events where participants received take-home CPR kits. |
| 2023 | NFL player Damar Hamlin, who survived a cardiac arrest during a game, joined the American Heart Association at the Empire State Building for National Wear Red Day to raise awareness about heart health and emergency response. |
| 2023 | Miss America's Scholarship Foundation announced a 3-year commitment to support the Go Red for Women initiative. |
| 2023 | The CEO Roundtable expanded to include almost 50 Fortune 100 CEOs, demonstrating significant growth and corporate engagement in workplace health initiatives. |
| 2023 | Announced the Second Century of Science Initiative to commemorate the AHA's first 100 years, awarding $20 million in grants to over 100 U.S. scientists across three award categories: Second Century Implementation Science Award, Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award, and Clinical Fellow Research Education Program. |
| 2023 | Launched the R.A.P.I.D.O. Campaign, a Spanish-language awareness campaign targeting Hispanic Americans about stroke symptoms and recognition, providing an educational acronym to help identify potential stroke signs. |
| September 2023 | The AHA partnered with the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, American Cancer Society, American Diabetes Association, and Tufts University's Food is Medicine Institute to launch 'Nourish My Health', a national public education campaign promoting the health benefits of nutritious food. |
| January 2023 | The American Heart Association launched the 'Nation of Lifesavers' program to educate teens and adults about responding to cardiac emergencies, aiming to improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. |
| 2022 | The American Heart Association collaborated with the Rockefeller Foundation, Kroger, and other partners to launch a national Food is Medicine Research Initiative, aiming to provide evidence on how food-as-medicine programs can improve health. |
| 2022 | The American Heart Association expanded its health metrics from Life's Essential 7 (LE7) to Life's Essential 8 (LE8) by adding sleep health as a new behavioral metric to its cardiovascular health measurement framework. |
| 2022 | The annual flagship meeting resumed as an in-person conference after two years of virtual events. |
| 2022 | Go Red for Women social media channels reached an audience of over 5.3 million. |
| 2021 | The annual flagship meeting continued to be held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual flagship meeting of the organization was held virtually. |
| 2020 | CEOs of CVS Health, Walgreens Boots Alliance, and US Foods joined the American Heart Association CEO Roundtable. |
| 2019 | The American Heart Association's 'Check. Change. Control.' hypertension management program was utilized by over 315,000 people, promoting blood pressure self-monitoring through an evidence-based approach. |
| 2018 | The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology issued new cholesterol management guidelines, including a recommendation to use coronary artery calcium score to assess statin medication needs. |
| 2018 | The organization updated its mission statement to 'To be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives', reflecting an expanded and more proactive approach to cardiovascular health. |
| 2018 | Miss America competition removed the swimsuit portion of the pageant. |
| 2017 | The American Heart Association, in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology and nine other groups, redefined high blood pressure for the first time in fourteen years, lowering the threshold to 130 over 80. |
| 2017 | The Go Red National Leadership Council was established to engage female executives in the campaign. |
| 2016 | The American Heart Association began investing $20 million in the Go Red for Women Strategically Focused Research Network. |
| 2016 | The American Heart Association, along with Verily Life Sciences and AstraZeneca, invested $75 million in the One Brave Idea program to research new biomarkers for atherosclerosis risk. |
| 2015 | The American Heart Association officially endorsed the Tobacco 21 campaign, advocating for raising the tobacco and nicotine sales age from 18 to 21. |
| 2014 | The American Heart Association began advocating for regulations on e-cigarettes, aiming to prevent youth nicotine addiction and highlighting potential gateway drug concerns. |
| 2014 | The American Heart Association launched the Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN) initiative to address key strategic research issues as determined by the AHA Board of Directors, focusing on areas such as hypertension, heart failure, heart disease, and health technologies and innovation. |
| 2014 | AHA issued the first comprehensive guidelines for preventing strokes in women, marking a significant advancement in gender-specific cardiovascular health recommendations. |
| 2013 | The American Heart Association issued a joint guideline recognizing obesity as a disease and recommending treatment through weight loss. |
| 2013 | The American Heart Association CEO Roundtable was formed to implement evidence-based approaches to workplace health. |
| 2012 | The American Heart Association launched a national campaign to educate people on hands-only CPR, with actress Jennifer Coolidge serving as the campaign's spokesperson. |
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