Community Calendar
October 2025
- Breast Cancer Awareness Month with multiple organizations
- Domestic Violence Awareness Month with Break the Cycle and the Domestic Violence Awareness Project
- Eye Injury Prevention Month with the American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Facial Pain Awareness Month with the Facial Pain Association
- Health Literacy Month with multiple organizations
- Healthy Lung Month with the Lung Health Institute and other organizations
- Home Eye Safety Month with the American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Liver Cancer Awareness Month with the Hepatitis B Foundation
- Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month with the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography
- National ADHD Awareness Month with the ADHD Awareness Month Coalition
- National Bullying Prevention Month with PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center
- National Dental Hygiene Month with the American Dental Hygienists’ Association and the Wrigley Oral Healthcare Program
- National Down Syndrome Awareness Month with the National Association for Down Syndrome and the National Down Syndrome Society
- National Medical Librarians Month with the Medical Library Association
- National Physical Therapy Month with the American Physical Therapy Association
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month with the Star Legacy Foundation
- Prenatal-onset GBS Disease Recognition Month with Group B Strep International
- Spina Bifida Awareness Month with the Spina Bifida Association
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Awareness Month with the National Institute of Child Health and Human DevelopmentTrusted Source
- International Day of Older Persons (October 1) with the United Nations
- World Meningitis Day (October 5) with the Meningitis Research Foundation
- National Primary Care Week (October 6 to 12) with the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Mental Illness Awareness Week (October 6 to 12) with the National Alliance on Mental Illness
- World Cerebral Palsy Day (October 6) with multiple organizations
- National Depression Screening Day (October 10) with Mental Health America
- World Mental Health Day (October 10) with the WHOTrusted Source
- World Sight Day (October 10) with The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
- International Day of the Girl Child (October 11) with the United Nations
- Bone and Joint Health National Action Week (October 12 to 20) with the Bone and Joint Initiative USA
- Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day (October 13) with METAvivor
- International Infection Prevention Week (October 13 to 19) with the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
- Global Handwashing Day (October 15) with the Global Handwashing Partnership
- National Latinx AIDS Awareness Day (October 15) with multiple organizations
- World Food Day (October 16) with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- National Mammography Day (October 18) with multiple organizationsTrusted Source
- World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day (October 19) with the Bone and Joint Initiative USA
- National Healthcare Quality Week (October 20 to 26) with the National Association for Health Quality
- Respiratory Care Week (October 20 to 26) with the American Association for Respiratory Care
- National Health Education Week (October 21 to 25) with the Society for Public Health Education
- National Check Your Meds Day (October 21) with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other organizations
- International Stuttering Awareness Day (October 22) with the National Stuttering Association
- MDS Awareness Day (October 25) with the Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation and other organizations
- National Prescription Drug Take Back Day (October 26) with the Drug Enforcement Administration
- World Psoriasis Day (October 29) with the International Federation of Psoriasis Associations