Debbie Jeffrey

In 1992, Debbie became a foundation member of the Board of Directors of ACCESS, Australia's National Infertility Network. Her professional background in nursing (general and psychiatric), together with her personal experience of infertility has helped to provide a unique insight and expertise in matters facing infertile people.

Debbie's personal history of infertility includes the following: combined infertility; 5 IVF cycles, three using donor sperm; genetic illness (her husband has a serious genetic disorder); an ectopic pregnancy; a spontaneous pregnancy resulting in a healthy child now 6 years old. She also have two children adopted as older children. This reflects a wide range of experience of infertility and its treatment. These experiences led her to explorations of genetics; of the biology of reproduction; of the ethical and moral implications of treatments such as pre-implantation diagnosis and donor insemination; as well as of the very unique nature of the grief and loss suffered by infertile people.

They also led her to take on a number of unpaid positions in related areas, which she hoped would benefit people in similar situations. Hence her continued involvement with ACCESS, intermittently with the Reproductive Technology Accreditation Committee, as well as on the Board of the international adoption group, A.F.C.

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