To celebrate Encephalitis International's annual theme, The Year of the Narrative, World Encephalitis Day 2016 featured a short film, digital art and photography competition, inviting supporters to create a piece of artwork that showed the world “what it needs to know about encephalitis.”[7] The winners of each category came from the U.S.[8] and Italy and were invited to an [ exhibition] at the Saatchi Gallery in December of that year.
The fourth annual World Encephalitis Day on February 22, 2017, reached an estimated 40 million people through traditional and social media and saw more than 50 global landmarks and buildings go #RED4WED by lighting up in the colour red to celebrate The Year of Awareness.
World Encephalitis Day 2019 was a global event marked by significant public engagement and awareness-raising activities.
Daniel McCrossan, a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Northern Ireland, spoke about World Encephalitis Day to his parliamentary colleagues.
Award-winning sports broadcaster and Encephalitis International Ambassador, Karen Tighe, announced that she would be leaving ABC Australia to focus on her health.
Karen, who became poorly with HSV encephalitis four years ago, was a trailblazer for female sports broadcasters during her ABC career which began in 1989.