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This webinar held on 2 March 2022 presented the findings from the first comprehensive review of Indigenous sleep health undertaken in Australia. Findings suggest that Indigenous Australians suffer poor sleep at increased levels compared to non-Indigenous Australians, including higher rates of snoring, sleep apnoea, short sleep, and symptoms of insomnia.
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This webinar held on 2 March 2022 presented the findings from the first comprehensive review of Indigenous sleep health undertaken in Australia. Findings suggest that Indigenous Australians suffer poor sleep at increased levels compared to non-Indigenous Australians, including higher rates of snoring, sleep apnoea, short sleep, and symptoms of insomnia.

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This webinar held on 2 March 2022 presented the findings from the first comprehensive review of Indigenous sleep health undertaken in Australia. Findings suggest that Indigenous Australians suffer poor sleep at increased levels compared to non-Indigenous Australians, including higher rates of snoring, sleep apnoea, short sleep, and symptoms of insomnia.
 
Despite the proven role of sleep in physical health and social-emotional wellbeing improvements, there is a lack of attention to sleep health, particularly education and health service availability in Indigenous communities. 
 
Presentations cover the causes and effects of poor sleep in Indigenous populations and explore the implications of the study’s findings. It will set out how researchers, clinicians, health workers, and educators can access information and resources to diagnose and manage sleep issues, and develop ideas for future research to promote sleep health in Indigenous communities. 
 

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Professor Sarah Blunden is Head of Paediatric Sleep Research at Central Queensland University and is a practicing  clinical psychologist specialising in the treatment of  sleep and related problems. She is the Founder/Director of Sensible Sleep, the elected paediatric representative of the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA) Education committee and co-chairs the Indigenous Sleep Working Party of the ASA. 

Dr Fatima Yaqoot is an Epidemiologist and Sleep Scientist, currently working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science Research (UQ). Her research aims to promote sleep health in First Nations communities through coordinated multidisciplinary research, improved community awareness, local capacity building and place-based service delivery models. Fatima leads the “Let’s Yarn About Sleep” program and is a member of the  Indigenous Sleep Working Party of the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA).

This webinar will be chaired by Stephanie Yiallourou. Dr Yiallourou is a public health researcher with a strong focus on sleep health in socially disadvantaged populations. She has successfully established as CI (including NHMRC and MRFF projects) a number of sleep related projects including large-scale public health projects in Indigenous populations. As part of the BIRCH study, she led community screening for sleep problems in over 200 Indigenous Australians in North Queensland and Central Australia. Also, as part of the MODERN trial, she led sleep assessment in 275 residents in regional communities. She served as Co-Chair of the ASA Indigenous Sleep Working Party from 2018-2021, and as a co-author on the international report outlining sleep health in Indigenous Australians she is emerging as a leader in the sleep field.

 

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