Global Seminar Series: October 4, 2022          

The 2nd Working Time Society Global Seminar – “Shift Work and Human Health: Risks and Mechanisms” – was held on October 4th, 2022 3pm – 5:30pm CEST (15:00 – 17:30h in Berlin/Vienna/Stockholm).

This seminar featured primarily the work of Early Career Researchers. It was organized by Anne Helene Garde and Kyriaki Papantoniou and hosted by the WTS in collaboration with the Medical University of Vienna and the National Research Centre for the Working Environment.

Speakers were:

Helena B. Nielsen: Working hours arrangements and risk of injuries in Danish healthcare workers

Jennifer Ritonja: Night shift work metrics and cancer risk: Results of a Cochrane Systematic Review of the literature

Kyriaki Papantoniou: Night shift work, sleep and thyroid cancer in the Nurses’ Health Study 2

Barbara Harding: Hormonal, immunologic and metabolic changes in rotating night shift workers: the Hormonit Study and future directions of the EPHOR project

Heidi M. Lammers-van der Holst: Sleep debt and altered metabolic and immune function biomarkers in professional ocean race sailors exposed to a 4hr on 4hr off watch system

Marie Aarrebo Jensen: Effects of night work on blood glucose levels

 

The seminar was held in an online meeting. The Working Time Society was pleased to announce that registration was FREE and open to everyone! If you are not a WTS member, please consider a donation to support Early Career Researchers in our WTS network, if you can. See Donations to the WTS.