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. 

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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Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus in Humans, Domesticated Animals, Ticks, and Mosquitoes, Shaanxi Province, China.
Authors: Tian H, Yu P, Chowell G, Li S, Wei J, Tian H, Lv W, Han Z, Yang J, Huang S, Zhou S, Brownstein JS, Wang J, Xu B.
Am J Trop Med Hyg
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Nosocomial amplification of MERS-coronavirus in South Korea, 2015.
Authors: Majumder MS, Brownstein JS, Finkelstein SN, Larson RC, Bourouiba L.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
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Using electronic health records and Internet search information for accurate influenza forecasting.
Authors: Yang S, Santillana M, Brownstein JS, Gray J, Richardson S, Kou SC.
BMC Infect Dis
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Determinants of Participants' Follow-Up and Characterization of Representativeness in Flu Near You, A Participatory Disease Surveillance System.
Authors: Baltrusaitis K, Santillana M, Crawley AW, Chunara R, Smolinski M, Brownstein JS.
JMIR Public Health Surveill
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Evaluation of Facebook and Twitter Monitoring to Detect Safety Signals for Medical Products: An Analysis of Recent FDA Safety Alerts.
Authors: Pierce CE, Bouri K, Pamer C, Proestel S, Rodriguez HW, Van Le H, Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS, Walderhaug M, Edwards IR, Dasgupta N.
Drug Saf
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Vaccine compliance and the 2016 Arkansas mumps outbreak.
Authors: Majumder MS, Nguyen CM, Cohn EL, Hswen Y, Mekaru SR, Brownstein JS.
Lancet Infect Dis
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Corrigendum to "Surface water areas significantly impacted 2014 dengue outbreaks in Guangzhou, China" [Environ. Res. 150 (2016) 299-305].
Authors: Tian H, Huang S, Zhou S, Bi P, Yang Z, Li X, Chen L, Cazelles B, Yang J, Luo L, Jing Q, Yuan W, Pei Y, Sun Z, Yue T, Wan MP, Liu Q, Wang M, Tong S, Brownstein JS, Xu B.
Environ Res
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Spatial Determinants of Ebola Virus Disease Risk for the West African Epidemic.
Authors: Zinszer K, Morrison K, Verma A, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Curr
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Spread of yellow fever virus outbreak in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2015-16: a modelling study.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Faria NR, Reiner RC, Golding N, Nikolay B, Stasse S, Johansson MA, Salje H, Faye O, Wint GRW, Niedrig M, Shearer FM, Hill SC, Thompson RN, Bisanzio D, Taveira N, Nax HH, Pradelski BSR, Nsoesie EO, Murphy NR, Bogoch II, Khan K, Brownstein JS, Tatem AJ, de Oliveira T, Smith DL, Sall AA, Pybus OG, Hay SI, Cauchemez S.
Lancet Infect Dis
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