Hello friends,
I am proud to stand alongside a community of changemakers committed to advancing women’s heart health.
This cause is deeply personal to me. In 2024, my husband, Brian, passed away from heart disease after a bike ride—doing what he loved, at the top of a mountain. While his loss forever changed our lives, there is a measure of peace in knowing he lived fully, right until the end.
Through my involvement in the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women – Woman of Impact campaign, I learned a statistic that stopped me in my tracks: heart disease kills more women each year than all forms of cancer combined. Yet women remain significantly underrepresented in cardiovascular research, underdiagnosed, undertreated, and underfunded. In fact, women receive substantially less heart disease research funding than men, despite heart disease being our leading cause of death.
That realization—combined with our family’s experience—made it impossible for me to stay on the sidelines.
Today, 1 in 3 women will die from cardiovascular disease, much of it preventable with education, research, and equitable access to care. This campaign is about changing the narrative—by raising awareness, funding lifesaving research, and advocating for treatments designed with women’s unique health needs in mind, across every age and stage of life.
Women have always been powerful supporters of one another. Now is the time to channel that strength into action.
This is more than wearing red. It’s about standing together against our greatest health threat—and ensuring that fewer families experience the loss that mine did.
If this message resonates with you, I invite you to join me.
Together, we can make a meaningful impact.
Thank you for standing with me.
Warmly,
Jennifer J. Janzen