About Professor Manish Pareek

Professor Manish Pareek graduated from the University of Birmingham with Honours degrees in Medicine and Public Health and undertook general medical training before completing an academic specialist training programme in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine in Leicester and London (Imperial College London) funded by the NIHR and MRC. At present he is Chair and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the University of Leicester and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust where he is the Head of Division of Public Health and Epidemiology and Director of the Development Centre for Population Health. He has international expertise in studying health inequalities, developing and delivering public health research programmes in infectious diseases, healthcare workers, migrant health and ethnic minority health. He developed the evidence base for programmatic latent TB screening in England and his research group were at the forefront of d investigating COVID-19 risk and outcomes in ethnic minority communities. His work has been recognised by awards from the Royal College of Physicians, Federation of Infection Societies and International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.