Agency

Our Mission and Values

Our vision: Healthy lives free of heart disease and stroke. Together we will make it happen.

Our mission:

• Prevent disease

  • Give children and youth the best start for a long, healthy life

  • Empower Canadians to live healthy lives

• Save lives

  • Enable faster, better cardiac emergency response and treatment

  • Enable faster, better stroke response and treatment

• Promote recovery

  • Enhance support for survivors, families and caregivers

Our values:

• A passion for health

• Making a difference

• Learning every day

• Being extraordinary together

• Embracing diversity

We achieve our mission through:

• Investing in life-saving research

• Advocating for healthy public policies

• Partnering with stakeholders

• Engaging Canadians to make health last

• Ensuring health equity

To learn how we are working towards our mission, see our Strategic Plan.