South Asian Health Foundation
nonprofit organization in Birmingham, United Kingdom
The South Asian Health Foundation (SAHF) is a charity in the United Kingdom (UK), founded in 1999 by Kiran Patel and established to improve the health of the UK's South Asian population. In 2015, it was named ‘Diabetes Team of the Year’ at the 2015 British Medical Journal awards.
“South Asian Health Foundation” enters the record as nonprofit organization in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what South, Asian and Health can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30273015. Authority coordinates are 52.466, -1.946. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2015.
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