[1] Since 1990 she has written on a broad range of issues for BMJ, including the impact of environmental degradation on health, the future of the World Health Organization, the ethics of academic publication, and the problems of editorial peer review.

[1] In 1994, she spent a year at Harvard University as a Harkness Fellow evaluating efforts to bridge the gap between medical research and practice.

[2] In 2000, she moved to Current Science Group to help establish the open access online publisher BioMed Central as Editorial Director for Medicine.

She has served as president of the World Association of Medical Editors (from January 2000 to December 2001)[4] and Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (from 2004 on)[5][6] and is co-editor of Peer Review in Health Sciences.

[citation needed] Godlee was director and member of the board of BMJ, a founder and board member of the Climate and Health Council and on the executive committee for the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change.