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Hjärt-Lungfonden

Stockholm, Sweden

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Profile last updated: April 8, 2026

About

Hjärt-Lungfonden is a charity based in Stockholm, Sweden working on health, medical research.

Hjärt-Lungfonden is a Swedish non-profit fundraising organisation that funds selected heart, blood vessel and lung research. It works to spread knowledge about cardiovascular and lung disease and to advocate for policies based on research findings, aiming for longer and healthier lives for people in Sweden. The organisation runs public health resources on lifestyle, nutrition and smoking and tobacco prevention, including the Sundkurs course, the Testamentskolan will education and the SCAPIS population study. It is supported by individual donors, legacies, corporate gifts and roughly 1,500 members, and is an approved gift recipient for Swedish corporate tax reductions. Its head office is in Stockholm.

Location

Stockholm, Sweden

Organisation type

Charity

Legal form

ideell insamlingsorganisation

Legal name

Hjärt-Lungfonden

Registration

802006-0763

Members

1,500

VAT number

SE809500009960

Focus areas

heart diseaselung diseasemedical researchcardiovascularstroketobacco preventionlifestylelegacies

Languages

SV

Causes & programmes

Causes

HealthMedical research

Works for

Patients

How they work

Grant-makingResearchAwareness & educationAdvocacy & campaigning

Programmes

Sundkurs

Health · Sweden

Online and video-based course on lifestyle and health, produced with experts at Karolinska Institutet, for people working with lifestyle change.

Testamentskolan

Health · Sweden

Educational resource explaining how to draw up a valid will, including a legal expert's lectures and a free will guide.

SCAPIS

Health · Sweden

Sweden's largest population study on the heart, blood vessels and lungs, aiming to prevent cardiovascular and lung disease before it develops.

Countries of operation

Sweden

Funding & support

Funded by

Individual donationsLegaciesCorporate partnershipsMembership fees

Ways to support

DonateMonthly givingMembershipLegacy givingFundraiseCorporate partnership

Trust

Tax-deductible donationsSvensk Insamlingskontroll 90-konto

Credentials & affiliations

Partnerships

UNICEF Sverige, Karolinska institutet, Cancerfonden, Generation Pep

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