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• 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...

• Exhibition brings Wordsworth’s words to life

  Date: 13/08/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/august/wordsworth-exhibition

  A multi-media exhibition led by a team of academics at the University of Leicester has launched at the Wordsworth Museum – one of the Lake...

• 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...

• ‘Urgent help’ is required to drive down COVID-19 death rates among ethnic minority communities

  Date: 16/02/2021 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/february/covid-19-among-ethnic-minorities

  The disproportionate rates of COVID-19 related deaths among people from ethnic minorities is ‘alarming’ and requires ‘urgent attention’...

• Recruitment begins for ethnic minority healthcare staff COVID research study

  Date: 04/12/2020 00:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/december/recruitment-begins-for-ethnic-minority-healthcare-staff

  A drive to encourage ethnic minority healthcare workers to participate in a Government-backed study investigating the risks of COVID-19 to their...

• COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity

  Date: 12/11/2020 10:00:00

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2020/november/covid19-ethnicity

  According to researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham, COVID-19 up to twice as likely to infect people of Black and Asian ethnicity