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Scientific & Medical Writer and Editor | PhD | Research & Academic Communication

Profile Summary

The strongest scientific and academic writing does more than present information—it helps readers find the significance within the evidence. For more than 25 years, I have helped researchers, academics, healthcare professionals, and other experts find that thread and communicate complex ideas with clarity, accuracy, and purpose. As a science writer and editor with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, I work with researchers and subject-matter experts on scientific and medical manuscripts, research-based content, and patient-centered health communication. My recent work spans oncology, infectious disease, neurology and psychiatry, endocrinology, transplantation and immunology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, and women’s health. My expertise includes substantive and developmental editing, manuscript revision, research and evidence synthesis, responses to peer review, journal submission support, and translating technical or data-rich material for academic, professional, and public audiences. I am experienced in AMA, APA, and MLA styles and particularly skilled at preserving an author’s expertise and voice while strengthening organization, clarity, argument, and readability. My background also includes more than 25 years of university teaching and writing-program leadership and more than 7,000 individual writing conferences. I bring that same collaborative approach to every project: I do not simply correct a document; I help identify the thread that connects the evidence, argument, and audience so the final work communicates what the author intends it to communicate.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Medical Content Writing
• ★ Manuscript & Journal Article Writing
• ★ Scientific Proofreading & Editing
• ☆ Health Psychology
• ☆ English Language
• ☆ English as a Second Language (ESL)
• ☆ English Studies
• ☆ Higher Education
• ☆ English Education
• ☆ Public Health
• ☆ Pandemic Preparedness
• ☆ Emergency Preparedness
• ☆ Disease Control And Prevention
• ☆ Foodborne Disease
• ☆ Peer Review
• ☆ Healthcare Communications
• ☆ Patient Education Materials
• ☆ Research Summaries & Abstracts
• ☆ Medical Copywriting
• ☆ Journal Selection
• ☆ Science Communication
• ☆ Literature Review
• ☆ Traditional/Narrative Literature Review
• ☆ Systematic Literature Review
• ☆ Web Copy
• ☆ Public Relations Writing
• ☆ Proofreading & Editing

Services

• Writing
• Research

Writing Medical Writing, Technical Writing, Copywriting, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Gray Literature Search, Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Work Experience

Adjunct Faculty, Composition

Purdue University Global

July 2025 - Present

Science Writer & Editor

Johns Hopkins University

March 2025 - Present

Research Project Manager

University of Kansas

March 2024 - March 2025

Associate Professor, Writing Program Administrator

Southeastern University

January 2013 - December 2022

Research Data Specialist

University of South Florida

June 2019 - May 2021

Education

PhD (Composition & TESOL)

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

2014 - 2018

MA (English & Technical Writing)

East Carolina University

2003 - 2005

BS (Public Relations)

University of Florida

1990 - 1992

AA (Mass Communications)

St. Petersburg College

1988 - 1990

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mads Eggerding, Debra Brown (2026). From Drifting to Anchored: How Online Health Communities Can Transform Care for Complex Chronic Illness . Patient Experience Journal.

Dana Guglielmo, Debra Brown (2026). Beyond laboratory tests: when normal results aren’t the finish line . The Lancet Rheumatology.

Rose Hayden-Smith, Debra A Brown (2026). Easing fears and enhancing care: proposing a protocol for patients with anxiety . The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health.

Barbara L Holtzman, Debra Brown (2026). Linking my chronic pain with trauma . BMJ.

Barbara L Holtzman, Debra Brown (2026). Linking my chronic pain with trauma . BMJ.

Debra Brown, Ruth Hursman (2026). Beyond the gut: screening for coeliac disease in obstetrics . The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health.

Whitney Voltz, Debra A. Brown (2026). My Nights Eat My Days: How My Eating Disorder Overshadowed the Autism No One Saw . Annals of Internal Medicine.

Lindsay Smith Rogers, Debra A Brown (2026). When baby-friendly messaging and environments cause trauma . The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology, & Women's Health.