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.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 Apr 2025
Global Stroke policy brief, highlighting the global stroke burden, and actions to improve prevention, treatment and recovery from stroke as part of the NCD response. Published by the Global Stroke Action Coalition, a multisectoral advocacy initiative convened by the World Stroke Organization.
Publication
02 Apr 2025
Stroke Action Now is a global advocacy report prepared by the Global Stroke Action Coalition. It outlines the burden of stroke, evidence-based solutions, and five urgent actions for governments and partners in the lead-up to the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
04 Feb 2025
This World Stroke Organization policy brief outlines key challenges and opportunities to reduce the global burden of stroke and NCDs through interventions a policy and healthcare systems level. The brief draws on WHO Best Buys for tackling NCDs and the WSO- Lancet Neurology Commission's Pragmatic Solutions to Address the Global Burden of Stroke.
Briefs & Fact Sheets
02 Jan 2025
This policy brief sets out pragmatic, evidence-based interventions to prevent stroke at population, healthcare system, and individual levels. It highlights cost-effective policies, risk factor management, and multisectoral strategies to support governments in reducing the global stroke burden
Briefs & Fact Sheets
23 May 2024
Over the past 30 years the landscape of acute stroke care has been transformed providing cost effective solutions that can save millions of lives and improve outcomes for patients. Despite this potential, globally only 3% of eligible patients have access. Time for a Revolution sets out the evidence base for, and the opportunities that exist to advance access to quality acute stroke and deliver Hea...
Publication
02 Apr 2024
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide. The burden of disability after a stroke is also large, and is increasing at a faster pace in low-income and middleincome countries than in high-income countries. Alarmingly, the incidence of stroke is increasing in young and middle-aged people (ie, age <55 years) globally. Should these trends continue, Sustainable Development Goal 3.4 (redu...
Guide
14 Oct 2019
The WSO Roadmap to Delivering Quality Stroke Care is an implementation resource to accompany the WSO Global Stroke Services Guideline and Action Plan. This roadmap provides the framework for the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of stroke services globally.It provides standardization and consistency for the selection of evidence-based recommendations, approaches to implementations in clini...
