Get moving, eat a heart – healthy diet and regularly control your blood pressure and cholesterol. There are lots of healthy behaviors that you can encourage in your communities, organisations and your social media followers to stop the #1 killer of hearts, heart disease.

Use your platforms to share tools and resources, raise the red flags, and wave the flag of solutions. Make sure you let people know why it matters. Complacency is our enemy! So we need to fight back – not with numbers, but with relevancy to each and every person who might listen.

If you believe in something, don’t just keep it in your head (and your heart!). Advocacy can come in many forms – whether it’s writing a letter to your newspaper, lobbying for healthy options for foods in your school, transforming your organization’s health policies, or getting involved with policy changes and global health equity.

Embrace who you are and make the message your own. Be true to what makes you and your organisations tick. Tell stories, take pictures, and customize messages to your brand. Connect to topics that matter to you a whole lot — like the environment, wellbeing, and global youth.

Your role? Get people to do more of the things that will move the world towards global health: improve healthcare access, reduce pollution, promote dialog, empower education, support fitness, tackle poverty, implement policies, deliver interventions, embrace technologies. There’s a part to play in every issue, and we need to do it collectively!

The movement needs YOU, to activate actions with ideas that break through the noise… and why not, even make headlines. A challenge, a contest, an event, or a song? We bet there’s no limit to what you can think of.

Post, preach, tag, like, love! Follow us on Use Heart and hashtag #UseHeart to amplify the movement, get others to join, use your social media channels and help Use (heart) really take flight.

Were a community that is growing and learning from one another. So tell us what you are doing and Use Heart to steal great ideas, create new partnerships, and make our community even better.

Everyone belongs to the Use Heart Movement, no matter your race, religion, sexual orientation and expression, age, or ability. We are allies for every heart, and do not discriminate, marginalize or disrespect humankind.

Happiness promotes heart health. So if this movement gets you inspired, creates shared purpose and gets your heart thumping, we’re already on our way to enhancing the power of Use Heart. Let’s harness the spirit and keep it going to inspire every heart!