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Publications & Multimedia

Find all the NCD Alliance publications and the most recent global data on NCDs.

This section includes the latest NCD Alliance publications, such as policy briefs and analysis, progress tracking and advocacy toolkits, and our annual reports.

Publications & Multimedia

  • Acting on Stroke and NCDs

    Acting on Stroke and NCDs

    Policy Briefs
     |  15th October 2018

    This policy brief explores the impact of stroke in society, highlighting the need for awareness on how to prevent and treat stroke before, during and after its occurrence. It also provides key actions that health systems, care providers and civil society can implement to improve the response to stroke and NCDs, based on a comprehensive and integrated approach.

  • Linking Mental Health & NCD Alliance Campaign Priorities for the 2018 UN HLM on NCDs

    Linking Mental Health & NCD Alliance Campaign Priorities for the 2018 UN HLM on NCDs

    Policy Briefs
     |  15th July 2018

    This resource was developed by members of the World Federation for Mental Health, Mental Health Innovation Network and NCD Alliance to support advocacy by global health advocates seeking integration of Mental Health into policy, processes and actions to prevent and control NCDs.

  • Ambitious SMART commitments to address NCDs, overweight and obesity

    Ambitious SMART commitments to address NCDs, overweight and obesity

    Policy Briefs
     |  09th December 2017

    Make the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition count for all forms of malnutrition. The brief focuses on select SMART commitments which target overweight & obesity and nutrition-related NCDs.

  • NCDs and Trade Policy in the Caribbean

    NCDs and Trade Policy in the Caribbean

    Policy Briefs
     |  06th November 2017

    This policy brief highlights the interactions and relationships between trade and NCDs and the role of trade policy actions in support of the prevention and control of this group of diseases in the Caribbean.

  • New brief highlights links between oral diseases and NCDs

    New brief highlights links between oral diseases and NCDs

    Policy Briefs
     |  31st August 2017

    This policy brief looks at the links between oral diseases and NCDs, and provides recommendations for their prevention and control.

  • Addressing NCDs: Psoriasis and its Co-morbidities

    Addressing NCDs: Psoriasis and its Co-morbidities

    Policy Briefs
     |  24th May 2017

    People with psoriasis are at greater risk of developing co-morbid conditions. What is notable about psoriasis co-morbidities is that all are NCDs. Psoriasis also shares the same risk factors - tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and harmful use of alcohol – as other NCDs.

  • NCDs in Emergencies

    NCDs in Emergencies

    Policy Briefs
    (267.60kB)  |  21st February 2017

    This brief is intended primarily for emergency planners, emergency care professionals and policy-makers tasked with emergency response and preparedness. It provides a brief overview of the impact of emergencies on people with NCDs, and describes the minimum standards and priority actions to be adopted in relation to NCD care in emergencies.

  • Joint policy brief: The link between food, nutrition, diet and NCDs

    Joint policy brief: The link between food, nutrition, diet and NCDs

    Policy Briefs
     |  13th November 2014

    The NCD Alliance and World Cancer Research Fund International successfully advocated for NCDs to be included on the agenda and outcomes of the Second International Conference on Nutrition (Rome, November 2014). Download our updated joint policy brief.