Debby Lennard was a senior civil servant specialising in IT and Project Management until she retired in 2015. Since then she has become involved in health research and provision. She sits as a lay member or patient representative on several boards for organisations including NIHR, CR-UK and NHS Digital. She is a lay reviewer for NIHR and the BMJ. She is an active Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) member on a number of research projects. Debby also advices a community of interest (CIC) company who are implementing a digital intervention to help people their self management of diabetes.