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. 

Estimating influenza attack rates in the United States using a participatory cohort.
Authors: Chunara R, Goldstein E, Patterson-Lomba O, Brownstein JS.
Sci Rep
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Comparing timeliness, content, and disease severity of formal and informal source outbreak reporting.
Authors: Bahk CY, Scales DA, Mekaru SR, Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC.
BMC Infect Dis
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Monitoring disease trends using hospital traffic data from high resolution satellite imagery: a feasibility study.
Authors: Nsoesie EO, Butler P, Ramakrishnan N, Mekaru SR, Brownstein JS.
Sci Rep
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Computational approaches to influenza surveillance: beyond timeliness.
Authors: Nsoesie EO, Brownstein JS.
Cell Host Microbe
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Ethical challenges of big data in public health.
Authors: Vayena E, Salathé M, Madoff LC, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Comput Biol
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New digital technologies for the surveillance of infectious diseases at mass gathering events.
Authors: Nsoesie EO, Kluberg SA, Mekaru SR, Majumder MS, Khan K, Hay SI, Brownstein JS.
Clin Microbiol Infect
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Assessment of the potential for international dissemination of Ebola virus via commercial air travel during the 2014 west African outbreak.
Authors: Bogoch II, Creatore MI, Cetron MS, Brownstein JS, Pesik N, Miniota J, Tam T, Hu W, Nicolucci A, Ahmed S, Yoon JW, Berry I, Hay SI, Anema A, Tatem AJ, MacFadden D, German M, Khan K.
Lancet
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Spatial and Temporal Clustering of Chikungunya Virus Transmission in Dominica.
Authors: Nsoesie EO, Ricketts RP, Brown HE, Fish D, Durham DP, Ndeffo Mbah ML, Christian T, Ahmed S, Marcellin C, Shelly E, Owers K, Wenzel N, Galvani AP, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
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Enhancing disease surveillance with novel data streams: challenges and opportunities.
Authors: Althouse BM, Scarpino SV, Meyers LA, Ayers JW, Bargsten M, Baumbach J, Brownstein JS, Castro L, Clapham H, Cummings DA, Del Valle S, Eubank S, Fairchild G, Finelli L, Generous N, George D, Harper DR, Hébert-Dufresne L, Johansson MA, Konty K, Lipsitch M, Milinovich G, Miller JD, Nsoesie EO, Olson DR, Paul M, Polgreen PM, Priedhorsky R, Read JM, Rodríguez-Barraquer I, Smith DJ, Stefansen C, Swerdlow DL, Thompson D, Vespignani A, Wesolowski A.
EPJ Data Sci
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Increasing Patient Engagement in Pharmacovigilance Through Online Community Outreach and Mobile Reporting Applications: An Analysis of Adverse Event Reporting for the Essure Device in the US.
Authors: Bahk CY, Goshgarian M, Donahue K, Freifeld CC, Menone CM, Pierce CE, Rodriguez H, Brownstein JS, Furberg R, Dasgupta N.
Pharmaceut Med
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