Braun has written for the Huffington Post and published academically on the topic of healthcare in the American prison system, specifically with regard to organ donation and the death penalty.The Eighth Amendment Dichotomy: The Clinical and Legal Debate Over Prisoner's Constitutional Right to Healthcare and Organ Transplantation. (2009). In Francisco Manuel García Costa & María Magnolia Pardo López (Eds.), Retos Del Derecho En El Siglo XXI (pp. 131-155). Valencia, Spain: Ediciones de la Universidad De Murcia. Her main academic research has focused on the ongoing legal battle over Sallekhana in the Indian courts and possible American legal precedent for the practice. She has spoken at several international conferences about world religions' philosophical approaches to artificial reproductive technology and the embryo industry in the United States as well as the ethics of disaster management and quarantine. She has been published in "Natural Transitions" magazine, a publication which examines options for the dying process and has been interviewed on the topic of Sallekhana by Scientific American Magazine. Her research has also been featured in an interview with Steve Lopez of the LA Times.
