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Science superstars shine in Tall Poppy Awards
A commitment to advancing emergency medicine on the battlefield and exploring the links between sleep and health has seen two JCU scientists take out top honours at a major event.
JCU research fellows Dr Hayley Letson and Dr Yaqoot Fatima (below right) have both received a prestigious Young Tall Poppy Award, which recognises Australia’s outstanding early career researchers, as well as enthusiasm for communicating science “beyond the walls of the laboratory”.
Dr Letson said she was humbled to receive the award, which recognises her work in trauma resuscitation and emergency medicine.
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2021-04-20 04:05:51 GMT2021-04-20 12:05:51(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
SYDNEY, April 20 (Xinhua) An Australian-led research found that night-shift workers were far more likely to catch COVID-19 than day workers.
An international research team, led by Yaqoot Fatima from James Cook University in the Australian state of Queensland, believe that night-shift workers have almost double the risk of catching the coronavirus.
Their findings, published in the Journal of Sleep Research, were based on medical data of 500,000 participants of Britain s biobank program, which collected medical and genetic data from volunteers.
Fatima, speaking to the Brisbane Times, said it was well known that working night shift could disturb people s natural circadian rhythms, potentially opening them up to infection.
New analysis of sleep health studies has found Indigenous Australian children suffer disproportionately from sleep problems. Dr Yaqoot Fatima is a Senior.