[4] In 2010, she drafted the Principles for the Treatment of Independent Scientific Advice which was finalised and accepted into the Ministerial Code by the UK government later that year.
[5] In 2013, Brown created the public interest defence to libel in the Defamation Act 2013 and the Evidence Transparency Framework, used to audit UK government in 2016 and 2017.
[6][7] In 2015 she gave a TEDTalk on The Power of Asking for Evidence[8] and the following year was a judge for the John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science.
[12] Brown is a vocal critic of the idea of a "post truth" society, advocating that the public still has great interest in sound and trustworthy evidence.
Brown received an OBE in 2017 for her services to science[20] and, in 2020, was made an honorary professor by University College London.