Media Resources
Here you will find relevant global and regional policy documents, produced by international organizations, coalition patners and other stroke stakeholders.

Stroke Policy Brief
31 January 2025
Averting a Global Health Crisis - pragmatic policy interventions to prevent stroke
This WSO policy brief outlines key challenges and opportunities to reduce the global burden of stroke through evidence-based interventions at policy and healthcare system level. The brief draws on WHO Best Buys for tackling NCDs1 and the World Stroke Organization–Lancet Neurology Commission ‘Pragmatic solutions to reduce the global burden of stroke’2. These documents set out key actions that will assist governments to deliver on their commitments on non-communicable disease (NCD) reduction.