Professor Sheena Asthana is part of the HDR UK South-West programme team.
Professor Sheena Asthana is the Director of the Centre for Health Technology and the Co-Director of the Centre for Coastal Communities at the University of Plymouth. Her specialisms include methods of health capitation, digital health (with a particular focus on the role of data interoperability in supporting the shift left agenda); and coastal inequalities.
She is currently leading an ESRC funded project to create a new national coastal classification. Sheena has served as a non-executive director on several non-department public bodies and charities, including the Commission for Rural Communities, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation and the Royal Society for Public Health.
