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. 

Recommendations for achieving interoperable and shareable medical data in the USA.
Authors: Szarfman A, Levine JG, Tonning JM, Weichold F, Bloom JC, Soreth JM, Geanacopoulos M, Callahan L, Spotnitz M, Ryan Q, Pease-Fye M, Brownstein JS, Ed Hammond W, Reich C, Altman RB.
Commun Med (Lond)
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Knowledge barriers in a national symptomatic-COVID-19 testing programme.
Authors: Graham MS, May A, Varsavsky T, Sudre CH, Murray B, Kläser K, Antonelli M, Canas LS, Molteni E, Modat M, Cardoso MJ, Drew DA, Nguyen LH, Rader B, Hu C, Capdevila J, Hammers A, Chan AT, Wolf J, Brownstein JS, Spector TD, Ourselin S, Steves CJ, Astley CM.
PLOS Glob Public Health
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Global monitoring of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through online surveys sampled from the Facebook user base.
Authors: Astley CM, Tuli G, Mc Cord KA, Cohn EL, Rader B, Varrelman TJ, Chiu SL, Deng X, Stewart K, Farag TH, Barkume KM, LaRocca S, Morris KA, Kreuter F, Brownstein JS.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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The Federal Menu Labeling Law and Twitter Discussions about Calories in the United States: An Interrupted Time-Series Analysis.
Authors: Hswen Y, Moran AJ, Prasad S, Li A, Simon D, Cleveland L, Hawkins JB, Brownstein JS, Block J.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
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A 10-Year Social Media Analysis Exploring Hospital Online Support of Black Lives Matter and the Black Community.
Authors: Hswen Y, Thorpe Huerta D, Le-Compte C, Hawkins JB, Brownstein JS.
JAMA Netw Open
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Estimated Pao2: A Continuous and Noninvasive Method to Estimate Pao2 and Oxygenation Index.
Authors: Sauthier M, Tuli G, Jouvet PA, Brownstein JS, Randolph AG.
Crit Care Explor
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Privacy-first health research with federated learning.
Authors: Sadilek A, Liu L, Nguyen D, Kamruzzaman M, Serghiou S, Rader B, Ingerman A, Mellem S, Kairouz P, Nsoesie EO, MacFarlane J, Vullikanti A, Marathe M, Eastham P, Brownstein JS, Arcas BAY, Howell MD, Hernandez J.
NPJ Digit Med
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Anosmia, ageusia, and other COVID-19-like symptoms in association with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, across six national digital surveillance platforms: an observational study.
Authors: Sudre CH, Keshet A, Graham MS, Joshi AD, Shilo S, Rossman H, Murray B, Molteni E, Klaser K, Canas LD, Antonelli M, Nguyen LH, Drew DA, Modat M, Pujol JC, Ganesh S, Wolf J, Meir T, Chan AT, Steves CJ, Spector TD, Brownstein JS, Segal E, Ourselin S, Astley CM.
Lancet Digit Health
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Exploring discussions of health and risk and public sentiment in Massachusetts during COVID-19 pandemic mandate implementation: A Twitter analysis.
Authors: Thorpe Huerta D, Hawkins JB, Brownstein JS, Hswen Y.
SSM Popul Health
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The Relationship between US Adults' Misconceptions about COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination Preferences.
Authors: Kreps SE, Goldfarb JL, Brownstein JS, Kriner DL.
Vaccines (Basel)
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