[3] She did her postdoc at Yale School of Medicine and worked at the University of Munich for six years as a research scientist.

[4] In 1985 Briggs joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, where she was a full professor in the department of nephrology from 1993 to 1997.

[5] In 2006 she became a senior scientific officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute,[3] a position she held until 2008 when she was appointed director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH).

[8] In 2010, a NCCAM-funded study was published which found that echinacea was not effective in the treatment of the common cold.

[9] In 2012, Briggs told The Washington Post that massage appeared to be an effective treatment for back pain.