Drowsy Driving Prevention Week

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Also: National Drowsy Driving Prevention Week · DDPW

Annual awareness week each November in which the National Sleep Foundation and partners push messages and toolkits on the dangers of driving while sleepy. It grew out of NSF drowsy-driving education that began in the early 1990s.

Years: 2007–now
Country: United States
Topic: Sleep Traffic safety
Asks people to: Stop Substitute
Strategy: Simple instruction
Channel: Social (organic)Website
Audience: General public
General public, young drivers, shift workers

Evidence

NoneUnknown

Described in CDC MMWR (2016) and an NSF-authored 2026 Sleep Health commentary; no study measures its effect on drowsy driving or crashes.

Sponsor (who paid)

National Sleep Foundation NGO

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Sources

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week (official page) sponsor
Announcement: Drowsy Driving Prevention Week - November 6-13, 2016 sponsor · 2016 · DOI 10.15585/mmwr.mm6543a7 · PMID 27811839
Drowsy driving prevention: Building on history, a purposeful platform, and the road ahead sponsor · 2026 · DOI 10.1016/j.sleh.2026.08.007 · PMID 42624740
NSF Position Statement on Drowsy Driving Prevention (hosted by GHSA) sponsor · 2026

Research notes

Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Start year 2007 comes from an NSF position statement and an interview cited in search results; exact first dates not confirmed. URL taken from web search results.

Record cases/nsf-drowsy-driving-prevention-week.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign