This month is awareness month for:

• ADHD
• Breast Cancer
• Dental Hygiene
• Depression Education and Awareness
• Disability Employment
• Domestic Violence
• Down Syndrome
• Dwarfism
• Dysautonomia
• Dyslexia
• Emotional Wellness
• Ergonomics
• Eye Injury
• Gaucher Disease
• Health Literacy
• Healthy Lungs
• Home Eye Safety
• LGBT History
• Liver
• Long-Term Care Planning
• Menopause
• Niemann-Pick Disease
• Organize Your Medical Information
• Orthodontic Health
• Physical Therapy
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss
• Residents’ Rights
• Rett Syndrome
• SIDS
• Spina Bifida
• Talk About Your Medicines

 

Specific awareness days/weeks:

• International Day of Non-Violence (2)
• World Animal Day (4)
• National Taco Day (4)
• Mental Illness Awareness Week (6-12)
• World Cerebral Palsy Day (6)
• Child Health Day (7)
• World Hospice and Palliative Care Day (8)
• Stop America’s Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Today (9)
• World Mental Health Day (10)
• National Coming Out Day (11)
• National Depression Screening Day (11)
• Bone and Joint Health National Action Week (12-20)
• World Arthritis Day (12)
• World Thrombosis Day (13)
• Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (13)
• International Infection Prevention Week (13-19)
• Indigenous Peoples’ Day (14)
• International Infection Prevention Week (14-20)
• Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day (15)
• National Latino HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (15)
• White Cane Safety Day (15)
• Global Handwashing Day (15)
• National White Cane Safety Day (15)
• National Healthcare Quality Week (15-21)
• Boss’ Day (16)
• World Spine Day (16)
• National Health Education Week (16-20)
• World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day (19)
• Asexual Awareness Week (19-25)
• World Osteoporosis Day (20)
• Respiratory Care Week (20-26)
• National Healthcare Quality Week (20-26)
• National Health Education Week (21-25)
• National Pumpkin Cheesecake Day (21)
• International Stuttering Awareness Day (22)
• Intersex Awareness Day (26)
• World Stroke Day (29)
• World Psoriasis Day (29)
• Lung Health Day (30)

June is here, and summer is too! Hooray!

Here is what this month is about:

• Adult Sex-Ed
• African-American Music Appreciation
• Alzheimer’s and Brain
• Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome
• Aphasia
• Cancer from the Sun
• Caribbean-American Heritage
• Cataract
• Child Vision
• Childhood Cancer
• Congenital Cytomegalovirus
• Hernia
• Hunger
• Infertility (world)
• LGBTQIA+ Pride
• Men’s Health
• Migraine & Headache
• Myasthenia Gravis
• PTSD
• Safety
• Scleroderma
• Scoliosis
• Vision Research

Specific days/weeks:

• World Hypoparathyroidism Awareness Day (1)
• National Cancer Survivors Day (2)
• Community Health Improvement Week (2-8)
• National Headache Awareness Week (4-10)
• HIV Long-Term Survivors Day (5)
• Tourettes Awareness Day (7)
• Caribbean-American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (8)
• Cervical Screening Awareness Week (10-16)
• Men’s Health Week (10-16)
• World Blood Donor Day (14)
• Autistic Pride Day (18)
• World Sickle Cell Day (19)
• Helen Keller Deaf-Blind Awareness Week (23-29)
• National HIV Testing Day (27)
• PTSD Awareness Day (27)

On the first of each month, I post a collection of awareness dates curated from across the internetz. While US-centric, many awareness events are global.

Month:

• Alcohol
• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Autism
• Black Women’s History
• Cesarean Awareness
• Child Abuse Prevention
• Deaf History (March 13-April 15)
• Donate Life
• Facial Protection
• Foot Health
• Humor
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Financial Literacy
• Jazz Appreciation
• Minority Health
• Occupational Therapy
• Oral Cancer
• Parkinson’s
• Pets!
• Primary Immunodeficiency
• Sarcoidosis
• Sexual Assault
• Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
• Sports Eye Safety
• Stress
• Women’s Eye Health and Safety

Day/week:

• National Public Health Week (1-7)
• RAINN Day of Action (4)
• World Health Day (7)
• Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week (7-14)
• Minority Cancer Awareness Week (9-15)
• Siblings (10)
• National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (10)
• World Parkinson’s Day (11)
• International Functional Neurological Disease [FND] Awareness Day (13)
• Healthcare Decisions Day (16)
• Voice Day (16)
• World Hemophilia Day (17)
• Transplant Nurses Day (17)
• Day of Silence (21)
• National Infertility Awareness Week (21-27)
• World Primary Immunodeficiency Week (22-29)
• World Immunization Week (23-29)
• World Meningitis Day (24)
• World Malaria Day (25)
• World Penguin Day! (25)
• MS Awareness Week (25)
• National Infant Immunization Week (26-May 3)

Month:

• Age-Related Macular Degeneration
• Black History
• Boost Self-Esteem
• Children’s Dental Health
• Heart
• Low Vision
• Marfan Syndrome
• Prenatal Infection Prevention
• Rare Disease
• Recreational Therapy
• Teen Dating Violence
• Turner Syndrome
• Wise Health Care Consumer

Day/week:

• African Heritage and Health Week (first week of February)
• Wear Red for Women’s Heart Health Day (1)
• Burn Awareness Week (3-9)
• World Cancer Day (4)
• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week (7-14)
• Pizza Day! (9)
• Cardiac Rehabilitation Week (10-16)
• International Epilepsy Day (11)
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week (13-19)
• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day (14)
• National Donor Day (14)
• National Condom Day (14)
• National Condom Week (14-21)
• Random Acts of Kindness Day (17)
• National Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day (22)
• World Encephalitis Day (22)
• Eating Disorder Awareness Week (25-Mar 3)
• Rare Disease Day (28)

Month:

• AIDS
• Aplastic Anemia
• Constipation Awareness
• Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention
• Handwashing
• Human Rights
• Identity Theft
• Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Day/week:

• World AIDS Day (1)
• Crohn’s and Colitis Awareness Week (1-7)
• International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (2)
• International Day of Persons with Disabilities (3)
• National Handwashing Awareness Week (2-8)
• National Influenza Vaccination Week (4-11)
• International Volunteer Day (5)
• Human Rights Day (10)
• Maple Syrup Day (17)
• International Migrants Day (18)
• U.N. Arabic Language Day (18)
• National Homeless Persons’ Remembrance Day (21)