Professor Rahman is an Editor of the Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease, a Senior Editor of the Annals of Human Genetics and sits on the Scientific Advisory Board of the French Muscular Dystrophy Association (AFM-Telethon), the Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation’s Clinical and Scientific Review Panel, and the Medical Advisory Boards of the Lily Foundation and the Freya Foundation. She also acts as a special adviser to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority.