John Samuel Brownstein, Ph.D.

John Brownstein, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital
Affiliate Member, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

John Brownstein is Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, a position shaped in large part by his career-long success in using emerging technologies to help clarify patterns of disease and promote public health interventions. His work has pioneered ‘digital epidemiology’—utilizing diverse digital data sources to understand population health—and his expertise here and in the area of geographic information systems has provided a key role in guiding DBMI on the consideration of place as a key disease risk factor. His portfolio at BCH includes grants from NIH, USAID, DoD, IARPA, CDC, Google, Skoll and Gates Foundation. Following receipt of his PhD in Epidemiology from Yale, Brownstein did a postdoctoral fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) before becoming a member of the faculty at BCH. 

Inferences about spatiotemporal variation in dengue virus transmission are sensitive to assumptions about human mobility: a case study using geolocated tweets from Lahore, Pakistan.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Bisanzio D, Reiner RC, Zakar R, Hawkins JB, Freifeld CC, Smith DL, Hay SI, Brownstein JS, Perkins TA.
EPJ Data Sci
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Predicting social response to infectious disease outbreaks from internet-based news streams.
Authors: Fast SM, Kim L, Cohn EL, Mekaru SR, Brownstein JS, Markuzon N.
Ann Oper Res
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Using Twitter to Identify and Respond to Food Poisoning: The Food Safety STL Project.
Authors: Harris JK, Hawkins JB, Nguyen L, Nsoesie EO, Tuli G, Mansour R, Brownstein JS.
J Public Health Manag Pract
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Evaluating the Relationship Between Hospital Antibiotic Use and Antibiotic Resistance in Common Nosocomial Pathogens.
Authors: Wang A, Daneman N, Tan C, Brownstein JS, MacFadden DR.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
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County-level assessment of United States kindergarten vaccination rates for measles mumps rubella (MMR) for the 2014-2015 school year.
Authors: Kluberg SA, McGinnis DP, Hswen Y, Majumder MS, Santillana M, Brownstein JS.
Vaccine
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Exploring online communication about cigarette smoking among Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia.
Authors: Hswen Y, Naslund JA, Chandrashekar P, Siegel R, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
Psychiatry Res
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Combining Participatory Influenza Surveillance with Modeling and Forecasting: Three Alternative Approaches.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Chu S, Marathe A, Marathe MV, Nguyen AT, Paolotti D, Perra N, Perrotta D, Santillana M, Swarup S, Tizzoni M, Vespignani A, Vullikanti AKS, Wilson ML, Zhang Q.
JMIR Public Health Surveill
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Online surveillance of media health event reporting in Nepal: digital disease detection from a One Health perspective.
Authors: Schwind JS, Norman SA, Karmacharya D, Wolking DJ, Dixit SM, Rajbhandari RM, Mekaru SR, Brownstein JS.
BMC Int Health Hum Rights
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Disparities in digital reporting of illness: A demographic and socioeconomic assessment.
Authors: Henly S, Tuli G, Kluberg SA, Hawkins JB, Nguyen QC, Anema A, Maharana A, Brownstein JS, Nsoesie EO.
Prev Med
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Advances in using Internet searches to track dengue.
Authors: Yang S, Kou SC, Lu F, Brownstein JS, Brooke N, Santillana M.
PLoS Comput Biol
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