She is the winner of several prestigious journalism awards, including the 2004 Association of Health Care Journalists Award for Excellence in Health Care Journalism, the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, the National Association of Science Writers Science-in-Society Award, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Ms. Brownlee is a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank in Washington, D.C. She lives on the Chesapeake Bay with her husband and son. Overtreated is her first book..
Selected lectures and speeches
Nobel laureates symposium: “Big Science and Creativity," Stockholm, Sweden, December 1991
Boston College, "The Overtreated American," 2003
Columbia University School of Journalism, "The Overtreated American," 2003
Council for the Advancement of Science Writing New Horizons Meeting, Award Lecture, "Medical Journalism: Where's the Criticism?" 2003
National Breast Cancer Coalition, Aspen Summit, "The Overtreated American," 2003
Georgetown University, "The Overtreated American," 2004
University of California, Berkeley, "Information, Please: Where's the Science in Medicine?" 2004
Duke University, 2004
4th World Congress of Science Writers, Montreal, Quebec, "Conflict of Interest: “Restoring Trust in Pharmaceutical Effectiveness Research,” 2004
New America Event: “University, Inc.” March 2005
New America Foundation Event: "Conflict of Interest: “Restoring Trust in Pharmaceutical Effectiveness Research,” September 2006
Association of Academic Health Centers, “Conflict of Interest: Restoring Trust in Academic Medicine,” October 2006
American Association for the Advancement of Science, “Conflict of Interest: Where's the Science in Medicine?” April 2007
Canadian Association of Science Writers, "Be Careful What You Wish For: Medical Envy and the Canadian Health Care System," June 2007
Instructor
Guest Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz, Science Writing MA program, 1999
Guest Lecturer, University of Maryland, Science Journalism Program, 1999, 2004
Writer-in-residence, University of Wisconsin, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Spring 2001
Instructor, Santa Fe Science Writer’s Workshop, 2001
Guest Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University, MA Writing Program, 2004
Film Consultant
Co-wrote and produced section on brain biology in “Understanding Murder,” one-hour Discovery Channel documentary, aired Spring 2001; consultant on “Supersize Me”
Selected Awards and Fellowships:
2003 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting, Council for the Advancement of Science Writers, for a body of work
2003 National Association of Science Writers, Science-in-Society Award, “The Big Fat Question,”SELF magazine
2002 ASME finalist, public policy category, “The Big Fat Question,”SELF magazine, December 2001
2000 Cindy Award: “Vive La Difference!” seven-minute science video on the biology of sex differences, produced for the Society for the Advancement of Women’s Health
1999 Sigma Delta Chi Award, Society of Professional Journalists: “The Quality of Mercy,”U.S. News & World Report, March 17, 1997
1993 Knight Journalism Fellow, Stanford University
1992 Sigma Tau Foundation Prize for Journalism: “Alzheimer's: Is There Hope?" U.S. News & World Report, December 11, 1991
1990 General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Prize for International Journalism: “Cancer's Bad Seeds,"U.S. News & World Report, August 12, 1989
1987 American Institute of Physics Award: “Waiting for the Big One,"Discover, July 1986
1982 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellow: ProvidenceJournal-Bulletin, Providence, RI
Education:
1982 Master of Science, Marine Sciences, with honors, University of Calif., Santa Cruz
1979 Bachelor of Arts, Biology, with honors, University of Calif., Santa Cruz
1981 University of California Regents Fellow
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