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. 

Erratum to: Digital Drug Safety Surveillance: Monitoring Pharmaceutical Products in Twitter.
Authors: Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS, Menone CM, Bao W, Filice R, Kass-Hout T, Dasgupta N.
Drug Saf
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Global distribution maps of the leishmaniases.
Authors: Pigott DM, Bhatt S, Golding N, Duda KA, Battle KE, Brady OJ, Messina JP, Balard Y, Bastien P, Pratlong F, Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Mekaru SR, Gething PW, George DB, Myers MF, Reithinger R, Hay SI.
Elife
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Assessing the origin of and potential for international spread of chikungunya virus from the Caribbean.
Authors: Khan K, Bogoch I, Brownstein JS, Miniota J, Nicolucci A, Hu W, Nsoesie EO, Cetron M, Creatore MI, German M, Wilder-Smith A.
PLoS Curr
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Accuracy of epidemiological inferences based on publicly available information: retrospective comparative analysis of line lists of human cases infected with influenza A(H7N9) in China.
Authors: Lau EH, Zheng J, Tsang TK, Liao Q, Lewis B, Brownstein JS, Sanders S, Wong JY, Mekaru SR, Rivers C, Wu P, Jiang H, Li Y, Yu J, Zhang Q, Chang Z, Liu F, Peng Z, Leung GM, Feng L, Cowling BJ, Yu H.
BMC Med
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Digital drug safety surveillance: monitoring pharmaceutical products in twitter.
Authors: Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS, Menone CM, Bao W, Filice R, Kass-Hout T, Dasgupta N.
Drug Saf
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Clinic accessibility and clinic-level predictors of the geographic variation in 2009 pandemic influenza vaccine coverage in Montreal, Canada.
Authors: Charland KM, de Montigny L, Brownstein JS, Buckeridge DL.
Influenza Other Respir Viruses
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Toward a county-level map of tuberculosis rates in the U.S.
Authors: Scales D, Brownstein JS, Khan K, Cetron MS.
Am J Prev Med
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A systematic review of studies on forecasting the dynamics of influenza outbreaks.
Authors: Nsoesie EO, Brownstein JS, Ramakrishnan N, Marathe MV.
Influenza Other Respir Viruses
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Wikipedia usage estimates prevalence of influenza-like illness in the United States in near real-time.
Authors: McIver DJ, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Comput Biol
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Modeling to predict cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome in Chile.
Authors: Nsoesie EO, Mekaru SR, Ramakrishnan N, Marathe MV, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis
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