- Location
- Online via Zoom, details will be sent to registered attendees.
- Series/Type
- Alumni Event, DLSPH Event, Faculty/Staff Event, Student Event
- Format
- Online
- Dates
- September 12, 2025 from 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Links
Presented by the Centre for Occupational Disease Prevention …
Title: “Circadian Disruption and Cancer”
Mechanistic insights from Dr. Bhatti’s observational studies motivated the launch of a pilot randomized placebo-controlled trial among night shift workers of melatonin supplementation and its impacts on oxidative DNA damage repair capacity, the results of which Dr. Bhatti will be discussing in the seminar. In recent years, Dr. Bhatti has expanded his research focus to the carcinogenicity of circadian disruption in the general population. As part of the seminar, Dr. Bhatti will also share results from a study of artificial light at night and breast cancer risk using data from two Canadian population-based cohort studies.
Presenter: Dr. Parveen Bhatti
Dr. Parveen Bhatti is an occupational and environmental epidemiologist based at the BC Cancer Research Institute and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. For the past 10 years, much of Dr. Bhatti’s research has focused on uncovering the impact of night shift work on cancer risk with a particular interest in understanding the mechanisms driving these associations so as to identify targets for intervention.