Background
Barbara Browne was born under the name Barbara Moulton in Chicago, Illinois, whose father was Harold Moulton, an economics professor at the University of Chicago.
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Brown attended Smith College along with the University of Vienne, but finished getting her bachelor"s degree at the University of Chicago.
Career
Foreign two years after graduation at the university, Brown studied bacteriology and various infectious diseases. Like her father, Browne completed her master"s at George Washington University in Washington, District of Columbia in 1940, then by 1944 received her medical degree. Employed by the Food and Drug Administration in 1955 Browne saw the fraud within the administration.
Fifteen years later Browne resigned from the Food and Drug Administration. She shifted her efforts towards creating better quality of drug approval.
After testifying before the Kefauver Senate Subcommittee, the United States Congress modified the drug approval process. Browne worked with the Bureau of Deceptive Practices at the Federal Trade Commission as a medical officer in order to bring to light the ethical issues present within the Food and Drug Administration.
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