Series 1, Episode 31: What is the real impact of over-work and a long-hours culture?, with Dr Frank Pega, World Health Organisation

Working long hours can, for some, be a badge of honour proving to themselves and the world how important and irreplaceable they really are. Yet the longer-term consequences and impacts of consistently working long hours are devastating for health and well-being. In this episode of the Brain for Business, Brain for Life podcast we talk to Dr Frank Pega of the World Health Organization (WHO) who outlines the shocking findings of research he has undertaken with a global team of experts into the effects of over-work and working long hours, including increased risk of heart attack and stroke The article referred to is available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412021002208Dr Frank Pega is a Technical Officer in the Environment, Climate Change and Health Department at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, Switzerland. As an epidemiologist and health economist, he is passionate about producing innovative and high-quality evidence and policy that can be used to improve workers’ health. He is WHO’s responsible officer for the WHO/International Labour Organization joint estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury, which includes coordinating contributions from 200 individual experts in 35 countries. Before re-joining WHO in 2015, Dr Pega worked for 15 years in health research and policy roles in international organisations, national governments and universities in the Americas, Europe and the Western Pacific. He holds a PhD and postdoctoral fellowship in Epidemiology and Health Economics from the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has published 45 articles in leading academic journals and received several international awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University.

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