About the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention

The mission of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention is to provide leadership and encourage collaboration among organizations committed to heart disease and stroke prevention. The National Forum has participants from more than 80 national and international organizations representing public and private healthcare, faith, advocacy, academic, and policy organizations. The National Forum has developed, and is now in the process of implementing a public health action plan to prevent heart disease and stroke. Lead partners in developing the Action Plan were:

• The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
• American Heart Association (AHA)/American Stroke Association (ASA)
• Association of State and Territorial Health Officials ASTHO)

The National Forum’s Implementation Groups are:

• Communications Implementation
• Public Health Leadership
• Action Priorities
• Organizational Capacity
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Policy Research
• Regional and Global Collaboration

National Forum Executive Officers for 2007-2008 were:

Darwin R. Labarthe, MD, MPH, PhD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chair

Mark Alan Schoeberl, MPA
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
Chair-Elect

B. Waine Kong, PhD, JD
Association of Black Cardiologists
Secretary

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Marsha L.Houston, Health Communications Specialist at CDC, is Interim Executive Director of the National Forum. More information about The National Forum and its Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke, which contains a wide range of valuable information, can be obtained at: www.cdc.gov/dhdsp/library/action_plan/index.htm.