KHUSH™ · South Asian workplace health
Your health is not generic.
Standard workplace health wasn't built for you. Your BMI chart, your menopause timeline, your EAP — all calibrated to someone else's body. KHUSH was built for yours.
KHUSH™
Knowledge & Health Upskilling for South Asian Health Equity
Why KHUSH exists
You already know something is off.
Your GP's BMI chart flags you at a weight that feels fine, but doesn't flag the metabolic risk that's been building for years. Your menopause timeline doesn't match your colleagues'. The EAP your employer offers requires you to admit something is wrong, to someone at work, out loud. And if you're a South Asian man dealing with fatigue, low drive, or a family history of heart attacks at 48, nobody is talking about that in any workplace session you've ever been to.
South Asian bodies carry specific health risks that standard provision doesn't address. Not because the intention isn't there. Because the tools were built for someone else.
KHUSH exists because your health needs are not an edge case. They are a pattern: clinically documented, culturally specific, and consistently missed.
6x
Higher risk of Type 2 diabetes at the same BMI as White British populations
10 yrs
Earlier average onset of heart disease in South Asian populations
~50%
Satisfaction gap for South Asian women with standard menopause support
1 in 4
South Asian men affected by low testosterone symptoms never discussed at work
What KHUSH is
Knowledge & Health Upskilling for South Asian Health Equity
The word means happy, joyful, used across Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, and Bengali. That is what this is about: not just managing the conditions you carry. Actually understanding them, naming them, and getting what you need.
KHUSH is the UK's first integrated health education programme built specifically for South Asian employees, men and women. It covers hormonal health, cardiometabolic health, mental health, and preventative health together, because in South Asian bodies these conditions are connected. They share a common driver. And they need to be addressed together, not in isolation.
What happens
KHUSH is a programme. Not a one-off session. Not a webinar. Not a policy document that gets filed and forgotten. What you experience depends on what your employer has committed to, but across the programme, here is what KHUSH actually is.
01
Education sessions, for employees
Expert panel sessions bringing together clinicians, occupational health specialists, mental health practitioners, and lived experience advocates, all with genuine South Asian cultural understanding. These are not lectures. They are structured conversations, with time for real questions. The content covers the full picture of South Asian health: hormonal, cardiometabolic, mental, and preventative, because these conditions are connected. For men: testosterone, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular risk, male factor fertility, mental health. For women: PCOS, perimenopause and menopause (which arrives 4 to 5 years earlier in South Asian women than standard timelines assume), fertility, thyroid health, and the language to use with your GP. For everyone: mental health across South Asian cultural frameworks, what izzat does to help-seeking, and what genuine culturally safe support looks like.
02
Manager training
Line managers and HR teams go through separate training: how to recognise what they might be seeing, how to have the conversation, and what they should do with it. If your manager has been through KHUSH training, that changes every interaction you have with them.
03
Policy and audit
Your employer's existing health policies, menopause policy, EAP, occupational health referral pathways, get reviewed and scored against South Asian adequacy criteria. Gaps are identified and addressed. The standards used are calibrated to South Asian bodies, not generic norms.
04
Resources
Employees in KHUSH programmes receive access to guides and reference materials they can use independently, for GP appointments, for workplace conversations, for understanding their own health.
What this means for you
Accredited employer
If you work for a KHUSH-accredited employer
Your employer has made a specific, evidenced commitment to your health, not just general wellbeing. That means manager training, policy review, and ongoing education calibrated to you.
Not accredited yet
If your employer isn't accredited yet
You can help change that. We've made it easy to send your HR team everything they need to make the case, written for budget holders, not for you to translate.
Job searching
If you're job searching
Join the waitlist. As employers complete KHUSH, you'll be the first to know which organisations have made this commitment. These are the workplaces where your health won't be an afterthought.
The accreditation
When an employer completes KHUSH, they earn the KHUSH Accreditation badge, awarded by HHEI CIC, the independent community interest company that holds KHUSH's delivery standard. Accreditation is not a logo exercise. It means they have delivered education to their workforce, trained their managers, reviewed their policies, and been assessed against a South Asian health equity standard.
Foundation
Education sessions delivered to the workforce and manager training completed.
Partnership
Foundation, plus policies reviewed and scored against South Asian adequacy criteria, with gaps addressed.
Embedded
Partnership, plus KHUSH is embedded into ongoing people practice, with ongoing education and annual re-assessment.
Three tiers, Foundation, Partnership, Embedded, reflect the depth of commitment. Each tier is listed on Appy + Yaar so you can see exactly what any employer has done, not just whether they have a badge.
Tell your employer
Be the reason your employer is here.
The organisations listed on Appy + Yaar as KHUSH-accredited started because someone in their workforce made the case. We have made it easy. One click sends your HR team a brief written for budget holders: the business case, the cost figures, the compliance context, what KHUSH costs, and how to start. You don't have to translate it.
The panel
Who delivers KHUSH
KHUSH is delivered by HHEI's expert panel, drawn from primary care, preventative medicine, occupational medicine, mental health, and women's and men's health expertise, with specific South Asian cultural expertise. The panel includes both clinical specialists and lived experience voices, because understanding the science is only half of what this requires.
HHEI CIC is an independent community interest company with an asset lock. It exists to serve the community, not shareholders.
Join the waitlist
Ready to move?
Tell your employer and join the waitlist. As employers complete KHUSH, you'll be the first to know which organisations have made this commitment — and which ones haven't.
KHUSH is delivered by HHEI CIC · Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales.