2026 Health Awareness Calendar
A month-by-month guide to the year's health awareness campaigns — with the workplace actions that turn awareness into impact.
No Tobacco & Burns Awareness
May focuses on tobacco cessation, burns prevention and hand hygiene. We help organisations support quitting, safety and healthier daily habits.
Run a quit-smoking support drive, a burns prevention talk, and a hand-hygiene refresher.
- 4–10Hospice Week
- 5World Hand Hygiene Day
- 5International Midwives Day
- 5–9National Burns Awareness Week
- 8World Red Cross Day
- 10Global Move for Health Day
- 12International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological & Neurological Diseases
- 12International Nurses Day
- 12–18World Salt Awareness Week
- 15 May – 15 JunGo Turquoise for the Elderly Campaign
- 17World Hypertension Day
- 21Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- 25 May – 1 JunChild Protection Week
- 28International Day of Action for Women's Health
- 31World No Tobacco Day
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