World Sleep Day
Annual global awareness day held on the Friday before the March equinox. Local delegates (sleep societies, clinicians, researchers) run their own events under a yearly slogan. By 2024 it had about 2,000 logged activities across 70+ countries, growing fastest in Europe and Asia.
- Years
- 2008–now
- Country
- United States
- Topic
- Sleep
- Asks people to
- Start
- Strategy
- Simple instruction
- Channel
- EventsSocial (organic)Website
- Audience
- General publicGlobal: events and materials run by sleep societies, clinics and volunteers in 70+ countries
Evidence
ProcessUnknown
2,047 activities logged 2008-2024; Europe grew from 24 to 132 activities and Asia from 10 to 94 (2014-2024); Africa and Oceania stayed small. No outcome evaluation found in PubMed.
Sponsor (who paid)
- World Sleep Society (formerly World Association of Sleep Medicine), World Sleep Day Committee NGO
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Related campaigns
- Sleep Awareness Week 1998–now
Sources
- World Sleep Day (official page) sponsor
- Awakening to sleep: Sixteen years of World Sleep Day global initiatives and future directions evaluation · 2025 · DOI 10.1016/j.sleep.2025.02.022 · PMID 40022861
- World Sleep Day (Wikipedia) news
- World Sleep Day Toolkit 2015 sponsor · 2015
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. society home page given instead, not fetched. Strategy tags are guesses. Country list reflects author affiliations of the WSD paper; the campaign is global. Not specifically an OSA screening drive; no PubMed papers found on WSD screening yields.
Record cases/world-sleep-day.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign