Fiona Godlee attended
Bedales and
Marlborough College boarding schools. She qualified as a doctor in 1985 at the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, having studied at
Trinity College, Cambridge. She trained as a general physician in London, and is a Fellow of the
Royal College of Physicians. In 2000, she moved to Current Science Group to help establish the
open access online publisher
BioMed Central as Editorial Director for Medicine. In 2003, she returned to the
BMJ Group to head up its new Knowledge division. She has served as president of the
World Association of Medical Editors (from January 2000 to December 2001) and Chair of the
Committee on Publication Ethics (from 2004 on) and is co-editor of
Peer Review in Health Sciences. From 2003 to 2005 she was head of BMJ Knowledge. She was editorial director, BioMed Central, Current Science Group. Godlee was director and member of the board of
BMJ, a founder and board member of the Climate and Health Council and on the executive committee for the
UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. ==Personal life==