This course is designed for those individuals with a more extensive understanding and knowledge base of healthcare with the primary users being health professionals, health sciences’ faculty and health sciences’ students. This course will introduce you to the Million Hearts initiative, teach you how to conduct and interpret a Million Hearts screening, provide a sample triage protocol to use during screenings, and review how to effectively counsel participants on modifying cardiovascular risk factors.

Welcome to the Ohio State Million Heart's Challenge, a part of the National Consortium for Building Healthy Academic Communities National Wellness Challenge! To begin, click on the title above to create an account. You will then have access to the Challenge modules.

Please email buckeyewellness@osu.edu with any questions.

This course is designed for community members who would like to promote heart health within their families, places of work, churches, and communities. This course is a basic version of our Million Hearts Fellow course, specifically designed for individuals who do not have a medical background.

This course discusses what high blood pressure is, what it means for your body, and provides information on ways to help reduce blood pressure using healthy lifestyle modifications. These healthy lifestyle modifications can help reduce your risk for having a future heart attack or stroke.

This course discusses what high cholesterol is, what it means for your body, and provides information on ways to help reduce cholesterol using healthy lifestyle modifications. These healthy lifestyle modifications can help reduce your risk for having a future heart attack or stroke.

This course provides information on ways to reduce stress using healthy lifestyle behavioral modifications and positive thinking. This course also briefly details smoking cessation.