Members Webinar | WiMT Leadership Elevation Series with Tanya Hall
In Conversation with Tanya Hall on Turning Lived Experience into a Nationwide Movement
What does it take to build a patient advocacy organisation from the ground up - and then earn a seat at the table where critical decisions about healthcare are made?
Please join us for a conversation with Tanya Hall, CEO and Founder of Hearts4Heart, a national organisation she established in 2011. Over nearly two decades, Tanya has grown Hearts4Heart into one of Australia's most recognised, respected and influential voices in patient education and advocacy.
In this interview, we'll speak to Tanya about her wins, the challenges she had to overcome in her life and, above all, about the immense and extraordinary satisfactions that come from building something so meaningful - especially from personal adversity.
Why Join Us?
- Real-world insights from a founder who turned lived experience into national and global impact.
- Practical perspectives on advocacy, stakeholder engagement and influencing health policy that you can apply to your own business.
- A renewed sense of what's possible for women building and leading in healthcare in Australia.
Who Should Attend?
Early to mid-career MedTech Professionals who are:
- Exploring leadership and founder pathways,
- Curious about advocacy, policy and market access roles, and
- Looking for honest stories from leaders who've walked paths of great achievement before.
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Our Speaker
Tanya Hall has contributed over 17 years of work in the not-for-profit sector. Through her personal experience of living with heart disease, she founded Hearts4heart in 2011, a national organisation dedicated to supporting, educating, and advocating for Australians and New Zealanders living with heart disease. Tanya also currently serves on the Board of the World Heart Federation.
Under Tanya’s leadership and advocacy, Hearts4heart has grown exponentially and is now recognised as an expert voice in patient education and support for heart disease, including arrhythmias, heart valve disease, and heart failure. Following its success in Australia, Hearts4heart has expanded to New Zealand. Tanya is frequently invited to contribute to research, present at health industry conferences, and provide expert commentary to the media on cardiac-related topics.
Her commitment to improving the lives of those affected by heart disease is both professional and personal. Having lost her father to a heart condition and managing her own heart disease, she has an intimate understanding of the challenges patients face. This lived experience has shaped her approach to advocacy and fuelled her passion for creating meaningful change in heart health globally.
Tanya’s goal is early detection and equitable access to therapies worldwide. Her passion for raising awareness about heart disease and ensuring patients have access to proven treatments has led her to establish strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clinicians, politicians, and health industry leaders across the globe.
As CEO of the only cardiac patient advocacy group actively involved in market access discussions with government, Tanya has played a pivotal role in reinvigorating the Australian cardiac community’s focus on patient access to therapies. She has united stakeholders- clinicians, industry leaders, and politicians through roundtable meetings and regular teleconferences to deliver a unified voice on these issues. Tanya’s contributions have been instrumental in improving access to therapies shaping various government health policy reforms.
Tanya has been involved in several key committees- some of which include the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Device Reform committee, ECG review committee, Cardiac Services and Prostheses List Reform, HTA reform, ANZACTS Committee, Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Australasia (CSANZ) Cardiac Procedures Outcomes Registry, CSANZ Cardiac Device Outcomes Registry, Global Heart Hub Heart Valve and Heart Failure Committees, Continuity of Care Collaboration Committee, and was a co-author of the Australian Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Guidelines, Australian Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Guidelines and Catheter Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia and CSANZ Telehealth Position Paper.
Tanya is the first person with lived experince elected on the World Heart Federation Board, she has also made significant contributions within political circles, forming the Parliamentary Committees, ‘Friends of Heart & Stroke further cementing her influence in bridging policy-making and grassroots patient advocacy.
Awards and Recognition
Tanya’s dedication to advocacy and patient support has been widely recognised through numerous prestigious awards. In 2023, she was named a semi-finalist for CEO of the Year at the Third Sector Awards and earned the Advocacy Champion of the Year and ‘Catalyst for Change’ awards from the Health Industry Hub. Hearts4heart, was also a finalist for NGO of the Year at the Prime Awards, and Tanya was a semi-finalist in the Policy & Advocacy category for the Health Industry Hub’s ‘Catalyst for Change’ award. In 2022, she received the Health Industry Hub’s ‘Catalysts for Change’ award for uniting clinicians and patient advocacy to drive policy changes in heart disease.
Earlier in her career, Tanya received the CALI (Community, Action, Leadership, and Inspiration) Award in 2012, was a finalist for Body and Soul’s Woman of the Year in 2013 and achieved significant recognition in 2015 with the Medical Technology Association of Australia Outstanding Achievement Award and the Global Bakken Invitation Award. The latter honours individuals with implanted medical technology making a global impact through charitable service
