SOUTH AMERICAN CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH - SACECH

For Argentina and the southern cone of South America, to have a Center of Excellence focused on research, research capacity building and advocacy, will ultimately impact on the betterment of cardiovascular health in our populations. At he same time, we hope that this initiative will strengthen our aims to translating knowledge into policies to inform resource-allocation decision making based on context-specific evidence in our countries. 

We believe that this project will provide a unique opportunity to address important issues related to cardiovascular health in our country and the region, generating knowledge useful for evaluating current level of risk factors and its management, allowing to build the fundamentals for future research projects in this area.

Our institution will provide full support for this project working in close collaboration with Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (SPHTM), New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO), Temuco, Chile and Universidad de la República (UdelaR), Montevideo, Uruguay. See more information

The SACECH activities will be concentrated in three complementary objectives: Establish a Center of Excellence in Cardiovascular Health for the Southern Cone of Latin America focused on research on risk factors in cardiovascular disease, research training of health professionals, and implementation of community-based interventions and health education for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases in South America.
- Estimate the prevalence, distribution, and secular trends of CVD and risk factors in the Southern Cone of Latin America.
- Examine the association between traditional and novel CVD risk factors and incidence of major CVD.
- Evaluate the burdens of CVD in South America, including costs and health services utilization.
- Build research infrastructure to conduct future intervention studies on cardiovascular health across the Region.