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. 

Mortality Risk Factors for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak, South Korea, 2015.
Authors: Majumder MS, Kluberg SA, Mekaru SR, Brownstein JS.
Emerg Infect Dis
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Combining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance.
Authors: Santillana M, Nguyen AT, Dredze M, Paul MJ, Nsoesie EO, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Comput Biol
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Flu Near You: Crowdsourced Symptom Reporting Spanning 2 Influenza Seasons.
Authors: Smolinski MS, Crawley AW, Baltrusaitis K, Chunara R, Olsen JM, Wójcik O, Santillana M, Nguyen A, Brownstein JS.
Am J Public Health
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The velocity of Ebola spread in parts of west Africa.
Authors: Zinszer K, Morrison K, Anema A, Majumder MS, Brownstein JS.
Lancet Infect Dis
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Vaccination Compliance and the US Measles Epidemic--Reply.
Authors: Majumder MS, Huston JE, Brownstein JS.
JAMA Pediatr
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Erratum to: Methodological Approaches to Evaluate the Impact of FDA Drug Safety Communications.
Authors: Kesselheim AS, Campbell EG, Schneeweiss S, Rausch P, Lappin BM, Zhou EH, Seeger JD, Brownstein JS, Woloshin S, Schwartz LM, Toomey T, Dal Pan GJ, Avorn J.
Drug Saf
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Drivers of Emerging Infectious Disease Events as a Framework for Digital Detection.
Authors: Olson SH, Benedum CM, Mekaru SR, Preston ND, Mazet JA, Joly DO, Brownstein JS.
Emerg Infect Dis
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Searching the Web for Influenza Vaccines: HealthMap Vaccine Finder.
Authors: Huston JE, Mekaru SR, Kluberg S, Brownstein JS.
Am J Public Health
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The global distribution of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever.
Authors: Messina JP, Pigott DM, Golding N, Duda KA, Brownstein JS, Weiss DJ, Gibson H, Robinson TP, Gilbert M, William Wint GR, Nuttall PA, Gething PW, Myers MF, George DB, Hay SI.
Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg
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Epidemic Wave Dynamics Attributable to Urban Community Structure: A Theoretical Characterization of Disease Transmission in a Large Network.
Authors: Hoen AG, Hladish TJ, Eggo RM, Lenczner M, Brownstein JS, Meyers LA.
J Med Internet Res
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