Health Awareness Months (Weeks and Days) 2024
This list shows when we raise awareness for different disabilities, illnesses, cancers, and diseases. The intent is to help us all learn more about these conditions and overall well-being and support those affected.
Add these to your calendar at work or home. If we are going to raise awareness and end the stigma of shame and fear, we need to observe all the conditions we live with.
Note: this list may have mistakenly excluded very important days/weeks/months. If you have an awareness day, week, or month you’d like to add, please reach out here!
January
February
March
April
May
World Maternal Mental Health Day: First Wednesday of May - Link
World Asthma Day: May 7 - Link
World Ovarian Cancer Day: May 8 - Link
World Lupus Day: May 10 - Link
Apraxia Awareness Day: May 14 - Link
World Hypertension Day: May 17 - Link
World IBD Day: May 19 - Link
World Schizophrenia and Psychosis Day: May 24 - Link
World Multiple Sclerosis Day: May 30 - Link
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week: May 5 – 12 - Link
ALS Awareness Month - Link
Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month - Link
Arthritis Awareness Month - Link
Better Hearing And Speech Month - Link
Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month - Link
Brain Tumor Awareness Month - Link
Bladder Cancer Awareness Month - Link
Celiac Disease Awareness Month - Link
Cystic Fibrosis Month - Link
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Awareness Month - Link
Food Allergy Awareness Month - Link
Healthy Vision Month - Link
Hepatitis Awareness Month - Link
High Blood Pressure Awareness Month - Link
Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month - Link
Lupus Awareness Month - Link
Lyme Disease Awareness Month - Link
Melanoma And Skin Cancer Awareness Month - Link
Mental Health Month - Link
National Apraxia Awareness Month - Link
National Blood Pressure Education Month - Link
National Brain Cancer and Brain Tumor Awareness Month - Link
National Dental Care Awareness - Link
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month - Link
National Stroke Awareness Month - Link
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month - Link
June
Cancer Survivors Day: First Sunday in June - Link
Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month - Link
Cataract Awareness Month - Link
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Awareness Month - Link
Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month - Link
National Aphasia Awareness Month - Link
Migraine and Headache Awareness Month - Link
National Scleroderma Awareness Month - Link
PTSD Awareness Month - Link
Scoliosis Awareness Month - Link
Scleroderma Awareness Month - Link
July
August
September
World Suicide Prevention Day: September 10 - Link
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month - Link
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month - Link
Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month - Link
National Cholesterol Education Month - Link
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month - Link
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month - Link
National Recovery Month - Link
National Sickle Cell Awareness Month - Link
National Suicide Prevention Month - Link
Pain Awareness Month - Link
Peripheral Artery Disease Month - Link
Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month - Link
Reye’s Syndrome Awareness Month - Link
Sepsis Awareness Month - Link
Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month - Link
October
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day: October 13 - Link
Mental Illness Awareness Week: First full week of October - Link
World Mental Health Day: October 10 - Link
National Depression Screening Day: Thursday of the first full week of October - Link
Depression Awareness Day: Thursday of the first full week of October - Link
Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Link
Liver Cancer Awareness Month - Link
