Summary slide deck: Report of the WHO Commission on Social Connection
30 June 2025
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Overview
This slide deck and presentation summarizes the key messages of the WHO Commission on Social Connection's flagship report. Using concise and accessible language, the slide deck will help you highlight that:
- Social isolation and loneliness are widespread, with serious but under-recognized impacts on health, well-being, and society;
- There is a compelling case for urgent action, with practical, scalable solutions available to strengthen social connection; and
- Policy-makers, researchers and all sectors need to treat social health with the same urgency as physical and mental health.
The slide deck includes a script in the notes section to help you give the presentation in diverse contexts.
WHO Team
Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing (DHA),
Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing (MCA),
Mental Health, Brain Health and Substance Use (MSD),
Social Determinants of Health (SDH),
WHO Commission on Social Connection
Editors
World Health Organization
Number of pages
14
Copyright
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO