Tracey Brown is managing director of the United Kingdom-based charitable trust Sense About Science, which equips the public to make sense of science and evidence.  She joined SAS as director in 2002, its founding year. She has a background in social research, and previously spent four years working on a European Commission program to establish social research and teaching in the former Soviet Union and a year setting up a commercially-based risk analysis center. She is a trustee of Center of the Cell, a trustee of MATTER, and writes a regular column for the British Science Association magazine People and Science. In 2009, she became a commissioner for the UK Drugs Policy Commission and she also sits on the Outreach Committee of the Royal College of Pathologists, of which she was made a Friend of the College in 2009. TBrown@senseaboutscience.org

“Conflicting Interests, Bias and Scientific Publishing”