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• Leicester health research recognised among best in the UK

  Date: 18/05/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/may/ref-clinical-medicine

  Health research enabled by partnership between the University of Leicester and both the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust and...

• Research reveals health inequalities for Black and South Asian women following gestational diabetes diagnosis

  Date: 27/03/2022 23:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/gestational-diabetes

  Black and South Asian women are up to three times more likely to develop certain long-term health conditions following a diagnosis of gestational...

• Five year study reveals “unacceptable” inequalities in stillbirth rates between Black, Asian and White babies

  Date: 08/03/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/bmj-stillbirth

  Researchers say around 1,800 stillbirths could have been prevented between 2014 and 2019 if ethnic inequalities did not exist - a 12%...

• Obesity ‘accelerates’ COVID-19 mortality risk amongst ethnic minorities

  Date: 02/02/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/covid-19-obesity

  A stronger association exists between deaths from COVID-19 and obesity in people of Black, South Asian and other ethnic minority groups than in...

• Wellcome boost for PhD programme to tackle Leicester’s healthcare inequalities

  Date: 17/01/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/wellcome-phd

  The University of Leicester has been granted a major funding boost by the Wellcome Trust to provide improvements to healthcare inequalities in...

• Professor Kamlesh Khunti awarded CBE in New Year Honours 2022

  Date: 01/01/2022 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/january/kamlesh-khunti-cbe

  Professor Kamlesh Khunti, Professor of Primary Care Diabetes and Vascular Medicine at the University of Leicester, has been made a Commander of...

• Biology unlikely to drive ethnic differences in COVID-19 risk for healthcare workers, study finds

  Date: 22/12/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/covid-biology

  The differences in COVID-19 infection risk between ethnic minority healthcare workers and their White colleagues is likely due to home and work...

• Race and Health Observatory to work with UK academic team to explore impact of long-COVID on UK healthcare workers

  Date: 11/12/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/reach-out

  The NHS Race and Health Observatory has today announced the start of a three-year study to investigate the long-term impact of COVID on NHS...

• Leicester researcher wins prize for COVID-19 research

  Date: 10/09/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/september/manish-pareek

  A researcher from Leicester has been awarded the Graham Bull Prize from the Royal College of Physicians, after he was amongst the first scientists...

• Address misinformation and mistrust to help tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers, study suggests

  Date: 28/04/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/uk-reach-vaccine-hesitancy

  Addressing misinformation and mistrust, inclusive communication, involving healthcare workers in the vaccine rollout, and promoting vaccination...