International cricket star Chris Gayle has backed an East Midlands campaign to prevent prostate cancer by urging men to hit the condition for six. The West Indies batsman has given his support to the #PlayDominoTalkProstate initiative launched by the Leicester-based Centre for BME Health. Statistics show one in four African Caribbean men will develop prostate Read More
Centre for BME Health 2018 Annual Report now available!
2018 Witnessed considerable achievements for the Centre in research, community involvement and teaching. In our first year working in collaboration with researchers in Leicester and beyond we have achieved a number of funding awards, publications and developed community interventions. All of our achievements (including those presented in the following document) are the result of hard Read More
CBMEH and the University of Leicester Ethnicity workshop
The Centre and the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (CSSAH) collaborated to launch the inaugural Ethnicity Research Workshop on 7th February 2019. The aim was to encourage and enable researchers to have effective engagement with BME communities at the outset and provide supportive tools for research in, and with, BME populations. Presentations were Read More
Diabetes UK Conference March 2019
We were part of poster presentations for Healthy Goals Programme and the Cities Changing Diabetes programme in Liverpool, which were both well received. South Asian Health Foundation Annual Diabetes in Ramadan Conference March 2019 Professor Kamlesh Khunti, Director of the Centre attended the 3rd Annual Diabetes in Ramadan Conference at BMA House, London held together Read More
Spring 2019 Newsletter
Since our Autumn edition, we have been busy continuing work on a number of projects, including the Healthy Goals and Walking Cricket programmes, as well as our #PlayDominoTalkProstate campaign. We have also been busy compiling our annual report for 2018 which is now available! Exciting new work will also be commencing shortly on translating the Read More
Health campaigner Pamela promotes #PlayDominoTalkProstate
Our campaign #PlayDominoTalkProstate has once again hit the airwaves of BBC Radio Leicester as we continue to raise vital awareness of prostate cancer. Pamela Campbell-Morris, a Project Assistant and Community Champion at the Centre for BME Health, spoke on the station on Friday, January 11, urging men to get themselves checked out instead of waiting for Read More