Yasmin SheikhAccount Manager

Yasmin joined WA in March 2018 from a healthcare public relations agency, where she worked on UK and EMEA accounts in immunology, cardiology, infectious diseases and OTCs. She is a patient and HCP data expert, with an academic background in global health policy and immunology.

Yasmin previously worked at Hanover and at HIV Scotland, and operates across PA and PR client accounts.

A shot in the arm for the vaccine industry? Implications of the NHS Long Term Plan for vaccine providers

Medicines manufacturers could be forgiven for feeling overlooked by the NHS Long Term Plan, with its clear focus on prevention over pills. Their colleagues in the vaccine industry may in contrast have good reason to...Read more

Pharmaceutical pricing: who holds the cards now?

Negotiations between NHS England and Vertex over access to vital CF drugs have reached an impasse. Both sides appear to have dug their heels into the ground, with patients and politicians left frustrated at the...Read more

NHS @ 70: 1960s. Birth control: How the pill nearly sparked a political and moral crisis

Whilst well into its twenties by the time the 1960s had swung around, the NHS was still in a nascent state of development when it came to women’s health. Maternity wards were yet to become...Read more

Falling flat – Chapter 2 of the Childhood Obesity Strategy

In her foreword to the latest iteration of the childhood obesity plan, Theresa May stated that “it cannot be a question of whether we act to address this, but rather how”. Anyone reading the plan...Read more