What is CEEHD?

The UK Centre for Evidence in Ethnicity, Health and Diversity (CEEHD) was founded in 2001 with pump-priming funds from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as part of an initiative in evidence-based policy and practice.

The main role of the Centre is to undertake new research and also to identify, assess and disseminate evidence in the multidisciplinary field of ethnicity and health, providing research findings which can help user organisations in health, social care and other sectors to develop ethnically-sensitive, appropriate and cost-effective services and policies.

The main elements necessary for the development of evidence-based policy and practice are already present in the area of ethnicity and health:

• there is an existing research base which can be brought together, and analysed in a consistent and coherent manner;
  
• ethnicity represents an area which has high policy relevance;
  
• and there is a constituency of policy makers, professionals, and users who are disposed to, and able to make use of, research findings.

The evidence available takes a number of different forms, including academic articles, unpublished or 'grey' literature, and large and small scale datasets. The challenge is to turn this 'information' into 'intelligence' on which policy makers and practitioners can act.

Recently, the Warwick Medical School has introduced Ethnicity and Health as a major new research theme. Please see the two page pdf, 'Ethnicity and Health: a developing research agenda in Warwick Medical School' to read more about this development.

CEEHD Team

Directors:

• Prof Ala Szczepura Warwick Medical School
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• Prof Mark Johnson Mary Seacole Research Centre (MRSC), De Montfort University Leicester
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Core staff:

• Diane Clay Librarian/Information Scientist
• Anne Shaw Librarian, Research Assistant
• Wesley Hubbard
  Information Scientist, (MSRC), De Montfort University Leicester