04 Oct 2025
The World Stroke Organization (WSO) offers a unique Certification of Stroke Centers program, designed to ensure the implementation of evidence-based strategies across two levels of stroke services. This program has significantly enhanced stroke care and facilitated the organization and monitoring of networks worldwide.Anchored in the WSO Roadmap for Quality of Stroke Services, this certification p...
Database
02 Oct 2025
The World Stroke Academy is the educational platform of the World Stroke Organization that provides high-quality stroke education to healthcare professionals.
Report
23 Sep 2025
The second Global report on hypertension highlights the urgent need to scale up detection, treatment, and control of hypertension, especially at the primary health care level. It showcases proven solutions, country successes, and clear recommendations for governments and partners. Ensuring reliable access to affordable, quality-assured antihypertensive medicines and validated blood pressure d...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
22 Sep 2025
The thematic issue briefs discuss challenges and opportunities in advancing multisectoral and multistakeholder action on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Each brief includes a rationale, stakeholder-specific recommendations and key messages on institutionalizing multisectoral governance, leveraging data and evidence for multisectoral policies and programmes, and strengthening multisectoral narrati...
Report
19 Sep 2025
Saving lives, spending less: the global investment case for noncommunicable diseases outlines why urgent investment in cost-effective interventions for NCDs is essential for health and sustainable development. Drawing on the World Health Organization’s package of NCD best buys, the report demonstrates how these evidence-based measures can help countries reduce premature deaths, strengthen health...
Article
16 Sep 2025
People with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are particularly vulnerable to health service disruptions resulting from conflicts, natural disasters, and major disease outbreaks. The 2018 Political Declaration of the 3rd UN High-Level Meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of NCDs called for the strengthening of health system resilience to withstand emergencies due to all haza...
Report
11 Aug 2025
The Second General Meeting of the GCM/NCD took place virtually from 23 to 25 April 2025. More than 300 participants from over 50 countries actively participated in the three-day main event. This meeting report assembles the main highlights and key outcomes from the Second General Meeting, featuring selected speaker quotes from across the GCM’s multistakeholder constituencies and signposting key...
Briefs & Fact Sheets
06 Aug 2025
This policy brief outlines three areas where industry seeks more explicit commitments from governments in the upcoming Political Declaration on NCDs and Mental Health, to be agreed this 25 September at the UN HLM:Leverage health innovationStrengthen prevention and early action for lifelong healthAddress multimorbidity through an integrated approach.Disclaimer: Resources posted by GCM Participants...
Guide
30 Jul 2025
Age Inclusion Handbook (2024) – HelpAge InternationalThe Age Inclusion Handbook is a comprehensive three-part resource designed to support practitioners, partners, and organisations in embedding age inclusion across humanitarian and development programming.Section 1 provides practical technical guidance notes across 13 thematic and operational areas, offering concrete steps to ensure older peopl...
Database
04 Jul 2025
The Air pollution and health training toolkit for health workers (APHT) is a set of materials designed to enable health workers, in both the clinical and public health fields, to understand the health risks of air pollution and identify risk reduction measures. Using a train-the-trainer approach, the APHT toolkit also helps facilitate organization of in-person workshops, online courses etc.
Database
04 Jul 2025
WHO monitors the exposure levels and health impacts (i.e., deaths, DALYs) of air pollution at the national, regional, and global level from ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution. Such estimates are used for official reporting like the world health statistics, and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Report
02 Jul 2025
The first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) Global Oral Health Meeting was convened in Bangkok, Thailand, from 26–29 November 2024. Hosted by the Government of Thailand, it brought together approximately 350 stakeholders, including representatives from over 100 Member States (including 12 health ministers and senior ministry of health executives), 35 United Nations (UN) agencies, and non-stat...
