Dr Suneela Mehta

Dr Suneela Mehta is a Public Health Medicine Specialist working with the Population Health Gain Directorate (a national team within Service Improvement and Innovation, Te Whatu Ora/Health New Zealand) and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland. The health of ethnic, migrant and former refugee communities in Aotearoa New Zealand is a key area of focus in her work.

Suneela is the primary South Asian advisor to the Health Research Council-funded Vascular Risk Equity for All New Zealanders (VAREANZ) research programme, a member of the University of Auckland Centre for Asian and Ethnic Minority Health Research and Evaluation (CAHRE) and provides Data Sovereignty advice for work involving ethnic communities. She regularly peer reviews national and international publications, including for the Lancet, the BMJ and the International Journal of Epidemiology.