Presenter Isy Suttie talks to the brilliant Abby Lang, who started campaigning to raise awareness of young sudden cardiac death after having a heart screening at her school.

When Abby found out that a health charity called Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) were holding heart screenings at her school in Dundee, she decided to attend as it was a topic she was interested in studying. She had no underlying conditions herself but Abby soon met a campaigner called Peter McAvoy who had lost his son from an undiagnosed heart condition and she decided to start campaigning with him and CRY to raise awareness of young sudden cardiac death.

Through her work, Abby has helped to persuade many members of both the Scottish Parliament and House of Commons to sign a pledge supporting the development of a national strategy preventing young sudden cardiac death and has helped to raise thousands of pounds to provide free heart screenings to young people across the UK. Her efforts led to her becoming a runner up in the Young Scot Awards in 2018 where she met Nicola Sturgeon and she continues to campaign whilst studying in Dundee to help prevent something that affects twelve young people every week.

This is how Abby is changing the world…