Carolyn Brown is a science and medicine writer and editor with 18 years’ experience at Canada’s two largest scientific publishers—Canadian Medical Association publications and NRC Research Press. She has written everything from speeches for Cabinet ministers to feature magazine articles, mainly for Ottawa Magazine.
A CEC Associate who delivers workshops on feature article writing and effective science writing, she currently provides writing and editing services for a range of not-for-profit and government clients, including the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the Canadian Forest Service, Environment Canada, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency, and the Council of Canadian Academies. She is also a contributing news writer for the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
In 2009, she participated in the Science Communications Program at the Banff Centre, led by noted science communicator Jay Ingram. She has taught an intensive course in writing scientific manuscripts for the National Autonomous University of Mexico since 2011. For the Editors’ Association of Canada and the American Medical Writers Association, she has given workshops in computer-based editing, writing abstracts, and scientific editing for more than a decade.