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    • Mission & Vision
    • Strategic Plan
    • Position Statements
    • Board of Directors
    • Staff
  • Public Resources
    • I’m concerned I may have high blood pressure, what do I need to know?
    • How do I monitor my blood pressure?
    • How do I maintain a healthy blood pressure?
    • High Blood Pressure and Me
    • List of Recommended Devices
    • Educational Resources
  • Resources
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About Us

Mission

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection, prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications

Vision

Healthy blood pressure for every Canadian.

Mandate

Hypertension Canada delivers against mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service areas:

  • Research: Knowledge generation through research and innovation.
  • Education: Knowledge translation by turning discovery into practice.
  • Government & Stakeholder Relations: Creating supportive environments through healthy public policy and life

Strategic Plan

  1. Be the trusted voice for hypertension and cardiovascular risk.
    1. Make HC’s website the single, authoritative point of contact for healthcare professionals and the general public, to get guidance and information on hypertension.
    2. Build partnerships with like-minded organizations (e.g., Heart and Stroke Foundation, Canadian Cardiovascular Society) such that HC provides all of their hypertension content in return for attribution.
  2. Obtain baseline data on blood pressure health in Canada and develop a tracking system to monitor trends over time
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  • Mission & Vision
  • Strategic Plan
  • Annual General Reports
  • Position Statements
  • Board of Directors
  • Staff

Annual General Reports

2022

2021

2020

Position Statements

Hypertension

  • 2016 Hypertension in Canada
  • 2015 Hypertension Framework Update
  • 2012 Hypertension Framework
  • 2000 National Hypertension Strategy
  • 1986 Hypertension Strategy

Food & Nutrition

  • A Call to Action to Buy and Sell Healthy Foods and Beverages – Executive Summary.
  • A Call to Action to Buy and Sell Healthy Foods and Beverages – Consensus Recommendations
  • A Call for Action to Implement a Healthy Food Policy Agenda – Consensus Statement
  • A National Model for Defining Healthy and Unhealthy Foods and Beverages – Consensus Statement
  • Food Tax and Subsidy Policies for the Promotion of Healthy Diets – Policy Consensus Statement
  • Increasing Food and Nutrition Research, Monitoring and Evaluation – Call to Action
  • Minimizing the influence of commercial interests in healthy public food policies – Call to Action
  • Unhealthy diets are the leading risk to Canadians’ health and well-being. Now is the time to act

Marketing to Kids

  • Restricting Food Marketing to Kids as a Policy Intervention for the Prevention of Chronic Disease Risk Factors – PowerPoint
  • Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children and Youth in Canada – Executive Summary.
  • Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages to Children and Youth in Canada – Policy Consensus Statement

Dietary Sodium and Potassium

  • Fact Sheet and Call to Action on Dietary Sodium
  • Dietary Potassium
  • Letter to Health Canada to add “Potassium Salt” to the Permitted Synonyms for Food Additives Table

Board of Directors

Dr. Ross T. Tsuyuki

President

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Paul Braconnier

Treasurer

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Dr. Laurel K. Taylor

Director

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David G. Henley

Director

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Dr. Shelita Dattani

Director

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Dr. Jill Bruneau

Director

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Kerri Eady

Director

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Meet the Team

Asif Ahmed

Executive Director

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Jonathan Roberts

Chief Financial Officer

Anna Stoutenburg

Senior Operations Coordinator

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  • About Us
    • Mission & Vision
    • Strategic Plan
    • Position Statements
    • Board of Directors
    • Staff
  • Public Resources
    • I’m concerned I may have high blood pressure, what do I need to know?
    • How do I monitor my blood pressure?
    • How do I maintain a healthy blood pressure?
    • High Blood Pressure and Me
    • List of Recommended Devices
    • Educational Resources
  • About Us
  • Public Resources
  • Resources
  • Membership
  • News/eINFO
  • Events
  • Contact Us
  • Donate
  • Français

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