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. 

Monitoring influenza epidemics in china with search query from baidu.
Authors: Yuan Q, Nsoesie EO, Lv B, Peng G, Chunara R, Brownstein JS.
PLoS One
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Evaluation of epidemic intelligence systems integrated in the early alerting and reporting project for the detection of A/H5N1 influenza events.
Authors: Barboza P, Vaillant L, Mawudeku A, Nelson NP, Hartley DM, Madoff LC, Linge JP, Collier N, Brownstein JS, Yangarber R, Astagneau P.
PLoS One
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Novel surveillance of psychological distress during the great recession.
Authors: Ayers JW, Althouse BM, Allem JP, Childers MA, Zafar W, Latkin C, Ribisl KM, Brownstein JS.
J Affect Disord
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Application of change point analysis to daily influenza-like illness emergency department visits.
Authors: Kass-Hout TA, Xu Z, McMurray P, Park S, Buckeridge DL, Brownstein JS, Finelli L, Groseclose SL.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
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New technologies for reporting real-time emergent infections.
Authors: Chunara R, Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS.
Parasitology
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Self-reported fever and measured temperature in emergency department records used for syndromic surveillance.
Authors: Kass-Hout TA, Buckeridge D, Brownstein J, Xu Z, McMurray P, Ishikawa CK, Gunn J, Massoudi BL.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
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Neighborhood determinants of 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 influenza vaccination in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Authors: Brien S, Kwong JC, Charland KM, Verma AD, Brownstein JS, Buckeridge DL.
Am J Epidemiol
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Research design considerations for clinical studies of abuse-deterrent opioid analgesics: IMMPACT recommendations.
Authors: Turk DC, O'Connor AB, Dworkin RH, Chaudhry A, Katz NP, Adams EH, Brownstein JS, Comer SD, Dart R, Dasgupta N, Denisco RA, Klein M, Leiderman DB, Lubran R, Rappaport BA, Zacny JP, Ahdieh H, Burke LB, Cowan P, Jacobs P, Malamut R, Markman J, Michna E, Palmer P, Peirce-Sandner S, Potter JS, Raja SN, Rauschkolb C, Roland CL, Webster LR, Weiss RD, Wolf K.
Pain
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Usefulness of school absenteeism data for predicting influenza outbreaks, United States.
Authors: Egger JR, Hoen AG, Brownstein JS, Buckeridge DL, Olson DR, Konty KJ.
Emerg Infect Dis
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Timeliness of nongovernmental versus governmental global outbreak communications.
Authors: Mondor L, Brownstein JS, Chan E, Madoff LC, Pollack MP, Buckeridge DL, Brewer TF.
Emerg Infect Dis
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