World Stroke Campaign Awards

Campaign awards recognize individuals and organizations who have gone the extra mile to raise awareness of stroke prevention and stroke symptom awareness.

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World Stroke Campaign Awards recognize key achievements in raising awareness of the World Stroke Day campaign themes and messages. In addition to celebrating the work of our members, Campaign Awards are also a way to identify and share good practice and innovation in stroke awareness campaigning around the world.

Following World Stroke Day each year we open our awards for submissions and nominations. WE welcome submissions and nominations for awards in each of the categories listed below. Award winners are featured here, on social media channels, in the WSO Annual Report and receive free annual membership of the World Stroke Organization and free registration for the award recipeint at the World Stroke Congress.

Click on the category links below for details of award criteria and application forms.

This award category celebrates individuals whose commitment, creativity and achievement have raised awareness of the key theme of World Stroke Day.

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Best Campaign in a Low to Middle-Income Country

Stroke is on the rise globally with low and middle-income countries making up an increasing proportion of the global stroke burden. Low public awareness of stroke prevention, issues with healthcare system capacity and limited financial resources pose particular challenges to campaigns in these countries. We want to recognize the dedication and impact organizations in these countries have made to overcoming barriers and raising awareness of stroke prevention treatment and care issues among the public, healthcare professionals and policy makers.

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With high stroke prevalence, competition for public attention and resources - as well as increasing demands for information, support and services -high-income countries have their own challenges when World Stroke Day comes around. We want to recognize the work of organizations in these countries to raise awareness of stroke as a national and global issue.

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Individual Achievement Award Winner 2022

Dawa Tshering of the Bhutan Stroke Foundation was awarded a World Stroke Campaign Individual Achievement Award in 2022. Here he shares how a personal tragedy transformed his awareness of stroke and put him on the road to becoming a leading global stroke campaigner and describes the components and impact of the awareness campaign he leads in Bhutan.

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Dr Carlos Abantos and team collect Campaign Award for Best Campaign in a LMIC

National Neuroscience Institute of Peru - Best Campaign in a Low to Middle-Income country

The 2022 World Stroke Campaign Award for Best Campaign in a Low to Middle-Income country was awarded to the team at the National Neuroscience Institute of Peru. Here Neurologist Carlos Abantos who headed up the campaign, shares the key issues around stroke and stroke awareness in his country and highlights some of the innovative ways his team worked to raise awareness.

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Best Campaign in a Low to Middle Income Country

The Association for Stroke and Aphasia Bulgaria translated and distributed WSO’s World Stroke Day posters, videos and Minutes Save Lives materials across the country and also secured full support from the Ministry of Health to initiate the development of a National Stroke Action Plan with a large platform of experts including the Association for Stroke and Aphasia.

Best Campaign in a High Income Country

With a campaign that stopped traffic, engaged media and shared the signs of stroke in public spaces across the country, this Argentinian Stroke Support Organization scopped its second campaign award in five years.

Individual Achievement Award

Dr Joseph Rukelibuga led an impressive inaugural World Stroke Day Campaign in Rwanda, building goverment commitment to stroke care development and putting in place foundations for future advocacy and awareness efforts in the country.