Australasian Sleep Association

For those looking into or are amid a PhD, it can at times feel like a journey without clear signposts. The first NEST webinar of 2024 aims to help you put together or strengthen your flight plan to navigate through your PhD journey. This webinar will seek to provide prospective and current PhD students with some nuggets of wisdom to guide them through their PhD. Key topics include juggling your PhD with other commitments/responsibilities, dealing with and overcoming the inevitable yet unanticipated setbacks you encounter, and some tips on how to go about your transition from PhD life to academia or industry. The aim is not to regurgitate information commonly taught by supervisors or in courses, but to provide some Easter (or NEST!) eggs from those who are still in or have recently left the PhD roost! Following presentations from our 3 exceptional speakers, attendees will have the opportunity to engage in a Q+A with the speakers.

We know that Indigenous health inequities are unacceptable, and that the status quo can’t continue, but what do we know about inequities in sleep health for Indigenous populations? In this talk we will define health disparities and frameworks to understand them, identify sleep inequity and its determinants and identify current trends and opportunities for future research and resources.Speaker: Dr Rachelle Love (FRACS), Otolaryngologist, Head and Neck Surgeon, Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury, Christchurch, New ZealandWhat are the 2-3 key points that the audience will take away after attending this webinar?An acknowledgment of the unacceptability of health inequitiesAn understanding of the need for change, particularly as concerns sleep health inequities in Indigenous populationsThere are many avenues to explore within clinical practice and research aimed at narrowing the disparities in sleep health, particularly for Indigenous populations