Helen joined the NIHR in 2016 to lead on stakeholder engagement activity within Innovation Programmes and to provide leadership across several high profile strategic and operational projects in the NIHR. One strand is helping med tech SMEs engage and develop fruitful collaborations with the NIHR and across the wider life sciences ecosystem to help them navigate product development essentials. 

Helen is an also innovation advisory board member to CW Innovation, the partnership between Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust and the Trust’s hospital charity, CW+, a Trustee to the charity Orthopaedic Research UK and a member of the Institute of Health and Social Care Management.