Ms Jennifer Butt | Health & medical editor
I live in Bonn (Germany) and London (UK) and work internationally
- [email protected]
- Website
- www.jenniferbutt.com
- Membership Grade
- Professional Member
About Jennifer
I specialise in language-editing medical and life sciences texts, particularly those written by non-native English speakers, and developmental editing to improve both the clarity of the text and the chances of publication in a reputable scientific journal. I really enjoy the challenge of helping researchers to express their results clearly, while still retaining their ‘voice’ as author. I also offer pre-submission copyediting.
As a Canada > UK > Germany transplant who experiences every day the challenge of communicating in a second language, I have a personal as well as professional understanding of what ESL (English as a second language) authors face when writing in English.
I have spent more than 20 years working in the UK health sector, in areas such as public health, medical research, primary care, medical devices and diagnostics, health technology evaluation and pharmaceuticals. I have edited health-related texts on a freelance basis since 2013.
Visit www.jenniferbutt.com (in English and German) for more information, or email me at [email protected]
Clients include:
- Clinicians, healthcare scientists, public health researchers/academics for whom English is a second (or third, or fourth!) language
- World Health Organization
- European Society of Cardiology
- Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, University of Bonn
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), UK
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), UK
- Doctoral students
Specialist subject areas:
- Medicine and healthcare (esp. public health, stroke care, cardiology, neurosurgery, health research, health technology evaluation, UK National Health Service)
- Academic and scientific writing
- Languages: German, French, English as a foreign/second language (EFL/ESL)
Continuing professional development:
- Basics of development editing for non-fiction (ClubEd) 2026
- Communicating with authors (CIEP) 2025
- Health editing (CIEP) 2024
- AI and medical writing and editing (Mediterranean Editors and Translators) 2024
- Referencing and avoiding plagiarism (University College London) 2024
- Word for practical editing (CIEP) 2023
- Scientific writing (Institute of Translation and Interpreting) 2022
- Medical editing (CIEP) 2021
- Copyediting 1 & 2 (CIEP) 2020
- CIEP conference (online or in person) 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Various other courses and webinars
Testimonials:
Everyone was very happy with, and grateful for, your intervention. We really like what you do and are very pleased we get to work with you.
J.N. & L.J., European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, WHO
Thank you very much for your constructive, exhaustive review and helpful feedback which significantly improved our manuscript. As usual, your comments helped us to make our meaning clearer. Your suggestions also highlighted weaknesses in the article which we have taken action to improve. Many thanks again for your help.
Dr K.Y. & Professor J.T., Department of Medical Genetics, University Hospital Montpellier & University Hospital Grenoble Alpes
Jennifer Butt has been very supportive and helpful in the language editing and proof reading of my manuscripts. She has always critically and productively improved the manuscript. I have enjoyed working with her and will have more manuscripts corrected by her in the future.
Dr M.B., Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
Jennifer’s work on this important report for WHO was a brilliant editing job.
Professor M.K., National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, UK
My experience with Jennifer Butt’s work has been outstanding. She has always worked and responded very quickly. Working with her has always been smooth. Her corrections and revisions have always been very helpful and of high quality. I recommend her without reservation.
M.L., Complutense University of Madrid
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