Dr. Paula N. Brown

Dr. Paula N. Brown, is the Director of Applied Research for Natural Health & Food Products at the BC Institute of Technology and holds a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Phytoanalytics. She received her PhD in Plant Chemistry from the University of British Columbia and MSc in Natural Products Synthesis from Simon Fraser University.

An internationally recognized expert in methods of analysis and natural products chemistry, Dr. Brown's research focus is on the basic and applied science underlying natural health product (NHP) quality and the roles they play in human health and wellbeing. Dr. Brown is a Fellow of AOAC International, is Section Editor for the Journal of the AOAC International, serves as has an advisor to the American Botanical Council and United States Pharmacopoeia and is a member and past Chair (2008-2018) of the NSF Joint Committee for Dietary Supplements.

Dr. Brown is the 2023 recipient of the Varro E. Tyler Award from the American Society for Pharmacognosy and 2022 recipient of the AOAC International Harvey W. Wiley Award. She has received the ABC Norman Farnsworth Award (2021) for Excellence in Botanical Research, the Water’s Award for Innovations in Natural Product Research (2019), the AHPA Herbal Insight Award (2017), NHP Research Society of Canada Neil Towers Award (2017) and the 2013 and 2020 Thieme Award Planta Medica for Most Innovative Original Paper.

She has served as an advisor to Health Canada as a member of the NHP Program Advisory Committee, the Self-care Task Force and most recently as Co-Chair of the Science Advisory Committee for Health Products containing Cannabis.