Get involved in the American Heart Association’s Birmingham Heart Walk

Join a UAB team or create a team for the annual walk, which helps raise funds for research efforts.

heart walk 2Support University of Alabama at Birmingham teams in the annual American Heart Association’s Birmingham Heart Walk, which takes place at 7:30 a.m., Saturday, June 27, in uptown at the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center.

Teams and individuals can sign up via the American Heart Association website. Several UAB teams have already been formed, or you can create a new team today. Food, fun and activities for the whole family will follow the walk.

The American Heart Association is the largest voluntary health organization working to prevent, treat and defeat heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases. These diseases, the nation’s No. 1 and No. 5 killers, claim more than 813,804 American lives a year. The AHA awards money to UAB each year to bolster research efforts.