Mission/Vision

Mission

The National Headache Foundation exists to enhance the healthcare of headache sufferers. It is a source of help to sufferers' families, physicians who treat headache sufferers, allied healthcare professionals and to the public. The NHF accomplishes its mission by providing educational and informational resources, supporting headache research and advocating for the understanding of headache as a legitimate neurobiological disease.

 

 

Vision

The National Headache Foundation will be the premier educational and informational resource for headache sufferers, their families, physicians, allied healthcare professionals and health policy decision makers. The NHF will advocate for the headache sufferers. The organization will employ the most effective means to disseminate information and knowledge to headache sufferers and non-sufferers.

 

 
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NHF Honorary Advisory Board

Your membership dollars help sustain and support the Foundation in achieving these key goals:
 

Inform

To serve as an information resource to headache sufferers, their families and the healthcare providers who treat them.

Educate

To raise public awareness that headaches are a legitimate biological disease and sufferers should receive understanding and continuity of care.

Research

To promote research into potential headache causes and treatments.

 

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Your donation goes to work immediately, helping the NHF in our continuing effort to educate and fund valuable headache research.

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“I do greatly enjoy the NHF Newsletter. It has been a blessing to me to realize I’m not alone and that others are working hard to help those of us who suffer.”

Michael H.

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