Why Plan a PHA Special Event?

You’re Committed to Making a Difference and Raising Awareness about This Terrible Disease Learn More

Your Efforts Support Essential Patient Services Learn More

Your Fundraising Dollars Support Peer-reviewed Medical Research Learn More

You Can Help Support Programs that Inform and Educate Medical Professionals Learn More

Your Event Builds Public Awareness of PH Learn More

You’re Committed to Making a Difference and Raising Awareness about This Terrible Disease.
You want to do your part by raising awareness and funds to put a spotlight on this illness, and build a better world for all those living with PH.

Your Efforts Support Essential Patient Services
The Pulmonary Hypertension Association provides a community of hope as well as support and education for patients and families affected by PH. PHA offers numerous services to patients and caregivers, such as PHA on the web, a patient-to-patient helpline staffed by trained and knowledgeable PH patient volunteers, PHA support groups, and newsletters such as the quarterly magazine Pathlight and patient-edited Persistent Voices. Your efforts also help us strengthen our support groups, so that instead of feeling alone, patients are empowered, connected, informed, and hopeful.

Your Fundraising Dollars Support Peer-reviewed Medical Research
PHA works closely with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Pulmonary Hypertension Association offers three major research awards each year to support cutting-edge research on pulmonary hypertension. By sponsoring researchers at the forefront of the field, PHA actively ensures a brighter future for those with PH and supports the fight for a cure. All three of PHA’s research grants are used exclusively to support the research for the cure for PH. Since PHA has directly funded research through three distinct programs,  our research programs leverage additional funds through partnerships with the American Thoracic Society and NHLBI. Learn More

You Can Help Support Programs that Inform and Educate Medical Professionals
In 2002, PHA launched the first and only medical journal dedicated to PH. This quarterly journal currently helps educate 40,000 cardiologists, pulmonologists, and rheumatologists in the US and around the world. PHA also supports professional sections within the association for physicians and researchers (PH Clinicians and Researchers) and for allied health professionals including nurses, pharmacists and respiratory therapists (PH Resource Network). PHA continues to offer a series of medical and patient education in a variety of venues. PH is moving from an unknown illness, to one that is increasingly becoming understood by the medical community.

Your Event Builds Public Awareness of PH
By making our fellow citizens aware of PH, we are creating new interest and support for solutions. Special events are putting a focus on PH in communities throughout the nation. As a volunteer coordinator, you help PHA produce programming that encourages and facilitates local news coverage about PH, thereby raising awareness and preventing misdiagnosis.