People from ethnic minority backgrounds face stark health inequalities, and those inequalities can deepen depending on other aspects of a person's life, such as where they live, their age, gender or disability. This theme works to understand and reduce those inequalities.
Our research is co-produced with communities and regional partners, ensuring it reflects the priorities of underserved groups and can improve health outcomes nationally.
We aim to:
- Conduct research on ethnicity- based health inequalities, recognising that many factors beyond ethnicity shape people's health and lives, developing health interventions with communities and solutions to emerging digital technologies to improve access.
- Work across all ARC East Midlands themes and with other ARCs to ensure health inequalities are identified and addressed throughout our research
- Support researchers, healthcare professionals and the public to deliver and participate in research that is inclusive and representative of the communities it serves, through training, guidance and mentoring
Our projects
View our current and completed research projects.
Theme Leads
Professor Manish Pareek, Theme Lead for Ethnicity and Health Inequalities
Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of Leicester
Dr Riya Patel, Co-Theme Lead for Ethnicity and Health Inequalities
Ethnicity and Health Research Fellow at the University of Leicester