Events Calendar

August 2024
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
				1 World Lung Cancer Day World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1–7)	2	3
4 Gastroparesis Awareness Month	5	6 Gastroparesis Awareness Month	7 World Breastfeeding Week (Aug. 1–7)	8	9 National Health Center Week (Aug. 9–15)	10
11	12 Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month	13 National Breastfeeding Month	14 Summer Sun Safety Month	15 National Health Center Week (Aug. 9–15)	16	17 Psoriasis Action Month
18	19 Contact Lens Health Week (Aug. 19–23)	20	21 National Breastfeeding Month	22	23 Contact Lens Health Week (Aug. 19–23)	24
25 National Immunization Awareness Month	26 Summer Sun Safety Month	27 National Immunization Awareness Month	28 Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month	29 Psoriasis Action Month	30	31 all day event International Overdose Awareness Day

September 2024
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
1 Blood Cancer Awareness Month	2 National Sickle Cell Month	3 Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Month	4	5 National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 5–11)	6	7 Pain Awareness Month Sports Eye Safety Month
8	9 National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month	10 all day event World Suicide Prevention Day	11 National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 5–11)	12 National Folic Acid Awareness Week (Sept. 12–18)	13 all day event National Celiac Disease Awareness Day all day event World Sepsis Day	14
15 National Food Safety Education Month	16 National Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Month	17 Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Prostate Cancer Awareness Month	18 National Folic Acid Awareness Week (Sept. 12–18) all day event Usher Syndrome Awareness Day	19 National ITP Awareness Month	20	21 National Recovery Month
22	23 all day event National School Backpack Awareness Day	24 all day event Sport Purple for Platelets Day	25	26 Healthy Aging Month Sepsis Awareness Month	27 Newborn Screening Awareness Month World Alzheimer’s Month	28 all day event World Rabies Day
29 all day event National Women’s Health and Fitness Day all day event World Heart Day	30

October 2024
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		1	2	3 Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 3–9)	4 Malnutrition Awareness Week (Oct. 4–8)	5
6 all day event World Cerebral Palsy Day	7 all day event National Depression Screening Day	8 Malnutrition Awareness Week (Oct. 4–8)	9 Mental Illness Awareness Week (Oct. 3–9)	10 all day event World Mental Health Day	11 all day event International Day of the Girl Child	12 Bone and Joint Health National Action Week (Oct. 12–20)
13 all day event Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day	14 all day event World Sight Day	15 all day event Global Handwashing Day all day event Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day	16 all day event World Food Day	17 International Infection Prevention Week (Oct. 17–23) National Healthcare Quality Week (Oct. 17–23)	18 all day event National Mammography Day National Health Education Week (Oct. 18–22)	19 all day event World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day
20 Bone and Joint Health National Action Week (Oct. 12–20)	21	22 all day event International Stuttering Awareness Day	23 International Infection Prevention Week (Oct. 17–23) National Healthcare Quality Week (Oct. 17–23)	24 all day event National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Respiratory Care Week (Oct. 24–30)	25	26
27	28	29	30 Respiratory Care Week (Oct. 24–30)	31

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