The Fertility Alliance team work together to ensure we offer the best possible support and information on all aspects of fertility.
Our Patron:
Professor Allan Pacey
We are delighted Professor Allan Pacey is our founding Patron at the Fertility Alliance.
Allan recently joined the University of Manchester where he is the Deputy Vice President and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health. He is also Professor of Andrology and has published over 200 research papers, book chapters and review articles.
He is a former Secretary (2005-2010) and Chairman (2012-2015) of the British Fertility Society and former Editor in Chief of the BFS journal Human Fertility (2015-2022). In addition, Allan is an accomplished science communicator and broadcaster. Recent television programmes include Me, My Brother and our Balls (2020), Alex Jones – Fertility and Me (2016), Britain’s Secret Code Breaker (2011), Donor Unknown (2011), The Great Sperm Race (2009), The Truth About Food (2007), Make me a Baby (2007) and Lab Rats (2004).
Awards include, a Fellowship ad eundem of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2014) in recognition of contributions to the speciality and the Wellbeing of Women, an MBE from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for services to Reproductive Medicine (2016), and Honorary (lifetime) Fellowship from the British Fertility Society (2023).