Sleep is Essential for Health
Share #WorldSleepDay online and and tell us about your World Sleep Day 2023 activity! Your World Sleep Day activity can be listed on worldsleepday.org along with hundreds of other awareness events, messages, and campaigns submitted by the global sleep community.
The slogan for 2023 is Sleep is Essential for Health. Sleep is essential and impacts multiple dimensions of health including fitness, nutrition, cardiovascular health, mental health and so much more! Join us this year in promoting the importance of sleep health worldwide!
Several of our World Sleep Day Delegates volunteered to share the World Sleep Day 2022 slogan in their home languages. Click below to listen to our 2022 slogan heard from around the world!
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World Sleep Day is an annual event, intended to be a celebration of sleep and a call to action on important issues related to sleep, including medicine, education, social aspects and driving. It is organized by the World Sleep Day Committee of World Sleep Society and aims to lessen the burden of sleep problems on society through better prevention and management of sleep disorders. World Sleep Day is held the Friday before Spring Vernal Equinox of each year. Future dates will be: Friday, March 17, 2023 and Friday, March 15, 2024
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Who created World Sleep Day?
The annual awareness event was started by a group of dedicated healthcare providers and members of the medical community working and studying in the area of sleep medicine and research. The goal of the first World Sleep Day was to bring together sleep healthcare providers to discuss and distribute sleep information around the world. The first co-chairs of World Sleep Day were Liborio Parrino, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology at Parma University, Italy and Antonio Culebras, MD, Professor of Neurology, Upstate Medical University, and Consultant, The Sleep Center, Community General Hospital, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Why was World Sleep Day created?
Time and time again, sleep medicine professionals and researchers came up against the belief that sleep was not important enough in personal health and well-being to be a priority. That coupled with society’s 24/7 flow, the founders of this awareness event aim to celebrate the importance of healthy sleep.
Who supports World Sleep Day?
World Sleep Day is hosted by World Sleep Society (WSS), a nonprofit based in the United States. Per the organizational bylaws, World Sleep Society does not support, recommend or endorse any products of services. The awareness event does accept corporate sponsorships to help support the cost to host the event, but World Sleep Society, the World Sleep Day Committee, or any person affiliated with WSS does not endorse or recommend commercial products, treatments, or companies.
What happens to funds raised by World Sleep Day?
Event and activities of World Sleep Day are free and open to the public. Companies who sponsor World Sleep Day provide funds to World Sleep Society to reimburse the costs the awareness day, including costs of press releases, website hosting and creation of educational content. Each year only a fraction of World Sleep Day’s cost is recouped through corporate sponsorships. Read more in our Frequently Asked Questions section about local/regional sponsors and local funds raised.
Can I use the World Sleep Day logo?
The logo can be used by official delegates in conjunction with an awareness activity. Companies and organizations must receive written consent before using our logo. The use of the words “World Sleep Day” is copyrighted with the United States Patent and Trademark Office serial number 85274932. Written permission is required to use the words “World Sleep Day” and/or logos of World Sleep Day and/or World Sleep Society.