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Louise Lown Heart Hero Award

ecognises innovative, preventive approaches to CV health

Posted in NGO and IGO action on 10 March 2010

Applications are currently being accepted for The Louise Lown Heart Hero Award. The award is given annually to celebrate and recognise innovative, preventive approaches to promoting cardiovascular health in developing countries and other low-resource settings. Dr Bernard Lown, Nobel Peace Prize recipient, inventor of the defibrillator and founder of ProCor, created the award in 2007 to honour his wife’s lifelong commitment to the rights and wellbeing of others through her work as a social worker, activist and writer.

The deadline for the award is 30 April 2010.  Criteria for applicants include involvement in work that focuses on prevention, building awareness or supporting action that promotes heart health rather than the use of medical technology and community-based work on a grassroots level.

Source: ProCOR, 10 March 2010.

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