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“Organizations worldwide often run awareness campaigns for various medical conditions, including both common and rare ones. They also address important issues like blood donations and distracted driving. Below is the 2024 calendar for health awareness days, weeks, and months to help you stay informed about events related to your interests throughout the year.”
January
January 1-31: Cervical Health Awareness Month
January 1-31: Glaucoma Awareness Month
January 1-31: International Quality of Life Month
January 1-31: National Birth Defects Awareness/Prevention Month
January 1-31: National Blood Donor Month
January 1-31: National Radon Action Month
January 1-31: National Winter Sports Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month
January 1-31: Thyroid Awareness Month
January 4: World Braille Day
January 11: Paget’s Awareness Day
January 28: World Leprosy Day
January 30: World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day
February
February 1-29: American Heart Month
February 1-29: Cholangiocarcinoma Awareness Month
February 1-29: Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancer Awareness Month
February 1-29: International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month
February 1-29: Low Vision Awareness Month
February 1-29: Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
February 1-29: National Cancer Prevention Month
February 1-29: National Children’s Dental Health Month
February 1-29: National Self-Check Month
February 1-29: Raynaud’s Awareness Month
February 1-29: Teen Dating Violence Prevention Month
February 1: World Aspergillosis Day
February 1: Time to Talk Day
February 2: Give Kids a Smile Day
February 2: Go Red For Women
February 2: Rheumatoid Awareness Day
February 4: World Cancer Day
February 5-11: Tinnitus Awareness Week
February 7: National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
February 7-13: African Heritage & Health Week
February 7-14: Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
February 11-17: Heart Failure Awareness Week
February 11-17: National Cardiac Rehabilitation Week
February 11-17: Sepsis Survivor Week
February 12: International Epilepsy Day
February 14: National Donor Day
February 14: National Impotence Day
February 14-21: National Condom Week
February 16: National Caregivers Day
February 26-29: National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
February 22: National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day
February 22: Recreational Sports & Fitness Day
February 27: National Protein Day
February 28: International Repetitive Strain Injury Awareness Day
February 29: Rare Disease Day
March
March 1-31: Alport Awareness Month
March 1-31: Brain Injury Awareness Month
March 1-31: Brain Tumor Awareness Month (UK only)
March 1-31: Deep-Vein Thrombosis Awareness Month
March 1-31: Malignant Hyperthermia Awareness Month
March 1-31: Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month
March 1-31: Myeloma Action Month
March 1-31: National Bleeding Disorders Awareness Month
March 1-31: National Cheerleading Safety Month
March 1-31: National Colorectal Cancers Awareness Month
March 1-31: National Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month
March 1-31: National Endometriosis Awareness Month
March 1-31: National Kidney Month
March 1-31: National Nutrition Month
March 1-31: Problem Gambling Awareness Month
March 1-31: Save Your Vision Month
March 1-31: Trisomy Awareness Month
March 1-31: Workplace Eye Wellness Month
March 1-6: National Aplastic Anemia & MDS Awareness Week
March 2: World Teen Mental Wellness Day
March 3: World Birth Defects Day
March 3: World Hearing Day
March 4: HPV Awareness Day
March 4: World Obesity Day
March 5: Dissociative Identity Disorder Awareness Day
March 7: National Hospitalist Day
March 10: National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 10-16: Patient Safety Awareness Week
March 10-16: Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week
March 10-16: Sleep Awareness Week
March 11-17: Brain Awareness Week
March 14: World Kidney Day
March 15: World Sleep Day
March 17-23: National Poison Prevention Week
March 18-24: National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week
March 20: National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
March 20: World Oral Health Day
March 21: World Down Syndrome Day
March 24: World Tuberculosis Day
March 26: Epilepsy Awareness – Purple Day
March 26: American Diabetes Alert Day
March 30: National Doctors’ Day
March 30: World Bipolar Day
April
April 1-30: Alcohol Awareness Month
April 1-30: Distracted Driving Awareness Month
April 1-30: Global Child Nutrition Month
April 1-30: Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
April 1-30: Medicaid Awareness Month
April 1-30: National Autism Acceptance Month
April 1-30: National Cancer Control Month
April 1-30: National Child Abuse Prevention Month
April 1-30: National Donate Life Month
April 1-30: National Facial Protection Month
April 1-30: National Foot Health Awareness Month
April 1-30: National Interprofessional Healthcare Month
April 1-30: National Minority Health Month
April 1-30: National Primary Immunodeficiency Awareness Month
April 1-30: National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
April 1-30: National Stress Awareness Month
April 1-30: Occupational Therapy Month
April 1-30: Oral Cancer Awareness Month
April 1-30: Parkinson’s Awareness Month
April 1-30: Rosacea Awareness Month
April 1-30: Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month
April 1-30: Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) Awareness Month
April 1-30: Sjögren’s Awareness Month
April 1-30: Sports Eye Safety Month
April 1-30: Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
April 1-30: Women’s Eye Health & Safety Month
April 1: Take Down Tobacco Day
April 1-7: National Public Health Week
April 1-7: World Autism Acceptance Week
April 2: World Autism Awareness Day
April 2: SAAM Day of Action
April 6: Bohring-Opitz Syndrome Awareness Day
April 6: National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
April 7: World Health Day
April 11: World Parkinson’s Day
April 11-17: Black Maternal Health Week
April 14: World Chagas Disease Day
April 16: National Healthcare Decisions Day
April 16-22: Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
April 17: World Hemophilia Day
April 19: Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day
April 21-37: National Infertility Awareness Week
April 22-26: National Youth Violence Prevention Week
April 22-26: Every Kid Healthy Week
April 22-29: National Infant Immunization Week
April 24-30: World Immunization Week
April 25: National DNA Day
April 25: World Malaria Day
April 28: World Day for Safety and Health at Work
April 29 – May 3: Patient Experience Week
April 29 – May 5: Air Quality Awareness Week
May
May 1-31: ALS Awareness Month
May 1-31: Arthritis Awareness Month
May 1-31: Better Hearing and Speech Month
May 1-31: Better Sleep Month
May 1-31: Bladder Cancer Awareness Month
May 1-31: Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month
May 1-31: Brain Cancer Awareness Month
May 1-31: Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month
May 1-31: Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Awareness Month
May 1-31: Food Allergy Awareness Month
May 1-31: Global Employee Health and Fitness Month
May 1-31: Healthy Vision Month
May 1-31: Hepatitis Awareness Month
May 1-31: High Blood Pressure Awareness Month
May 1-31: Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month
May 1-31: Lupus Awareness Month
May 1-31: Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May 1-31: Maternal Mental Health Month
May 1-31: Mental Health Awareness Month
May 1-31: National Asthma and Allergies Awareness Month
May 1-31: National Celiac Disease Awareness Month
May 1-31: National Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
May 1-31: National Nurses Month
May 1-31: National Osteoporosis Awareness Month
May 1-31: National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
May 1-31: National Stroke Awareness Month
May 1-31: National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
May 1-31: National Teen Self-Esteem Month
May 1-31: National Women’s Health Month
May 1-31: Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Month
May 1-31: Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
May 1-31: Older Americans Month
May 1-31: Preeclampsia Awareness Month
May 1-31: Skin Cancer Awareness Month
May 1-31: Tourette’s Awareness Month
May 2: International Scurvy Awareness Day
May 5: World Hand Hygiene Day
May 5-11: North American Occupational Safety and Health Week
May 5-12: Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week
May 6-12: National Nurses Week
May 6: World Ankylosing Spondylitis Day
May 7: World Asthma Day
May 8: World Ovarian Cancer Day
May 10: National Lipid Day
May 10: World Lupus Day
May 12: International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases
May 12: International Nurses Day
May 12-18: National Hospital Week
May 12-18: National Women’s Health Week
May 12: ME/CFS and Fibromyalgia International Awareness Day
May 13: National Women’s Checkup Day
May 13-19: National Stuttering Awareness Week
May 15: Hyperemesis Gravidarum Awareness Day
May 17: World Hypertension Day
May 18: HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
May 19: Hepatitis Testing Day
May 19: National Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
May 19: World IBD Day
May 20: World Autoimmune and AutoInflammatory Arthritis Day
May 22: World Preeclampsia Day
May 24: World Schizophrenia Day
May 24: Don’t Fry Day
May 25: World Thyroid Day
May 29: World Digestive Health Day
May 29: National Senior Health and Fitness Day
May 30: World MS Day
May 31: National Heat Awareness Day
May 31: World No Tobacco Day
June
June 1-30: Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month
June 1-30: Aphasia Awareness Month
June 1-30: Cataract Awareness Month
June 1-30: Men’s Health Month
June 1-30: Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
June 1-30: National Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
June 1-30: National Migraine & Headache Awareness Month
June 1-30: National Safety Month
June 1-30: National Scoliosis Awareness Month
June 1-30: Professional Awareness Month
June 1-30: PTSD Awareness Month
June 1-30: Scleroderma Awareness Month
June 1-7: National CPR and AED Awareness Week
June 2: National Cancer Survivors Day
June 8: World Brain Tumor Day
June 10-16: Men’s Health Week
June 14: World Blood Donor Day
June 15: World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June 17-23: World Continence Week
June 18: Autistic Pride Day
June 19: World Sickle Cell Day
June 21: Global MND Awareness Day
June 21: International Day of Yoga
June 25: World Vitiligo Day
June 26: International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
June 25-July 1: Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week
June 27: National HIV Testing Day
June 27: National PTSD Awareness Day
June 27: National Sunglasses Day
June 29: Rare Chromosome Disorder Awareness Day
July
July 1-31: Cord Blood Awareness Month
July 1-31: Healthy Vision Month
July 1-31: International Group B Strep Awareness Month
July 1-31: Juvenile Arthritis Awareness Month
July 1-31: National Cleft & Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month
July 1-31: National Hemochromatosis Awareness Month
July 1-31: National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
July 1-31: Sarcoma Awareness Month
July 1-31: UV Safety Month
July 11: World Population Day
July 22: World Brain Day
July 23: World Sjogren’s Day
July 28: World Hepatitis Day
August
August 1-31: Children’s Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month
August 1-31: Digestive Tract Paralysis Awareness Month
August 1-31: Gastroparesis Awareness Month
August 1-31: National Breastfeeding Month
August 1-31: National Eye Exam Month
August 1-31: National Immunization Awareness Month
August 1-31: Psoriasis Action Month
August 1-31: Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
August 1-31: Summer Sun Safety Month
August 1: National Minority Donor Awareness Day
August 1: World Lung Cancer Day
August 1-7: World Breastfeeding Week
August 3: Cloves Syndrome Awareness Day
August 4-10: National Health Center Week
August 18: World Breast Cancer Research Day
August 18-24: Contact Lens Health Week
August 19: World Humanitarian Day
August 30: National Grief Awareness Day
August 31: International Overdose Awareness Day
September
September 1-30: Baby Safety Month
September 1-30: Blood Cancer Awareness Month
September 1-30: Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
September 1-30: Food Safety Education Awareness Month
September 1-30: Gynaecologic Cancer Awareness Month
September 1-30: Healthy Aging Month
September 1-30: ITP Awareness Month
September 1-30: National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month
September 1-30: National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
September 1-30: National Cholesterol Education Month
September 1-30: National Fruits and Veggies Month
September 1-30: National Pediculosis Prevention Month/Head Lice Prevention Month
September 1-30: National Recovery Month
September 1-30: National Sickle Cell Awareness Month
September 1-30: National Vascular Disease Awareness Month
September 1-30: National Yoga Month
September 1-30: Newborn Screening Awareness Month
September 1-30: Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month
September 1-30: Pain Awareness Month
September 1-30: Peripheral Artery Disease Awareness Month
September 1-30: Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Awareness Month
September 1-30: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
September 1-30: Reye’s Syndrome Awareness Month
September 1-30: Sepsis Awareness Month
September 1-30: Sexual Health Awareness Month
September 1-30: Sports Eye Safety Month
September 1-30: Suicide Prevention Awareness Month
September 1-30: Urology Awareness Month
September 1-30: World Alzheimer’s Month
September 7: World Duchene’s Awareness Day
September 8-14: Folic Acid Awareness Week
September 8: World Physical Therapy Day
September 8-14: National Assisted Living Week
September 8-14: National Suicide Prevention Week
September 9: International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Day
September 9-15: Sexual Health Week
September 10: World Suicide Prevention Day
September 13: National Celiac Disease Awareness Day
September 13: World Sepsis Day
September 15: World Lymphoma Awareness Day
September 16-20: Malnutrition Awareness Week
September 16-22: National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
September 16-22: World Mitochondrial Disease Week
September 17: Get Ready for Flu Day
September 17: World Patient Safety Day
September 18: National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day
September 18-22: Fungal Disease Awareness Week
September 19: Aortic Dissection Awareness Day
September 19-23: National Farm Safety and Health Week
September 20: National Concussion Awareness Day
September 21: Usher Syndrome Awareness Day
September 21: World Alzheimer’s Day
September 22: Falls Prevention Awareness Day
September 23: World Lung Day
September 25: International Ataxia Awareness Day
September 25: World Pharmacists Day
September 25: National Women’s Health and Fitness Day
September 26: Mesothelioma Awareness Day
September 26: World Contraception Day
September 28: World Rabies Day
September 28: Family Health & Fitness Day
September 27: Sport Purple for Platelets Day
September 29: World Heart Day
October
October 1-31: Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October 1-31: Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease (CMT) Awareness Month
October 1-31: Contact Lens Safety Month
October 1-31: Domestic Violence Awareness Month
October 1-31: Down syndrome Awareness Month
October 1-31: Eye Injury Prevention Month
October 1-31: Health Literacy Month
October 1-31: Healthy Lung Month
October 1-31: Home Eye Safety Awareness Month
October 1-31: Liver Cancer Awareness Month
October 1-31: Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month
October 1-31: National ADHD Awareness Month
October 1-31: National Audiology Awareness Month
October 1-31: National Bullying Prevention Month
October 1-31: National Dental Hygiene Month
October 1-31: National Medical Librarians Month
October 1-31: National Orthodontic Health Month
October 1-31: National Physical Therapy Month
October 1-31: National Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month
October 1-31: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
October 1-31: Prenatal-onset GBS Disease Recognition Month
October 1-31: Spina Bifida Awareness Month
October 1-31: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month
October 1: International Day of Older Persons
October 5: World Meningitis Day
October 6-12: Mental Illness Awareness Week
October 6-12: National Primary Care Week
October 6-12: National PA Week
October 6: World Cerebral Palsy Day
October 7: Child Health Day
October 7: Trigeminal Neuralgia Awareness Day
October 10: National Depression Screening Day
October 10: World Mental Health Day
October 10: World Sight Day
October 11: International Day of the Girl
October 12-20: Bone and Joint Action Week
October 12: World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
October 13: Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
October 15: Global Handwashing Day
October 15: National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day
October 15: Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day
October 15-21: International Infection Prevention Week
October 16: Restart a Heart Day
October 16: World Food Day
October 18: Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) Action Day
October 18: National Mammography Day
October 19: World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day
October 20: World Osteoporosis Day
October 20-26: National Healthcare Quality Week
October 20-26: Respiratory Care Week
October 21: National Check Your Meds Day
October 21-25: National Health Education Week
October 22: International Stuttering Awareness Day
October 29: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
October 29: World Psoriasis Day
October 30: World Hypophosphatasia Day
November
November 1-30: American Diabetes Month
November 1-30: Bladder Health Month
November 1-30: COPD Awareness Month
November 1-30: Diabetic Eye Disease Month
November 1-30: Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
November 1-30: Lung Cancer Awareness Month
November 1-30: November
November 1-30: National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month
November 1-30: National Diabetes Month
November 1-30: National Epilepsy Awareness Month
November 1-30: National Family Caregivers Month
November 1-30: National Healthy Skin Month
November 1-30: National Hospice and Palliative Care Month
November 1-30: National Marrow Awareness Month
November 1-30: Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
November 1-30: Prematurity Awareness Month
November 3-9: National Diabetes Education Week
November 3-9: National Radiologic Technology Week
November 8: International Day of Radiography
November 9: National Diabetes Heart Connection Day
November 10: World Keratoconus Day
November 12: World Pneumonia Day
November 14: World Diabetes Day
November 15: Great American Smoke out
November 17: World Prematurity Day
November 18-24: US Antibiotic Awareness Week
November 19-25: GERD Awareness Week
November 20: World COPD Awareness Day
November 21: World Pancreatic Cancer Day
November 23: International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day
November 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
November 28: National Family Health History Day
December
December 1-31: National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
December 1-31: National Safe Toys and Gifts Month
December 1: World AIDS Day
December 1-7: Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week
December 3: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 2-8: National Handwashing Awareness Week
December 4-8: National Influenza Vaccination Week