John Brownstein

John Brownstein, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

Affiliate Member, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Research
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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.

A scoping review of malaria forecasting: past work and future directions.

Authors: Zinszer K, Verma AD, Charland K, Brewer TF, Brownstein JS, Sun Z, Buckeridge DL.
BMJ Open 2012-01-01
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Digital epidemiology.

Authors: Salathé M, Bengtsson L, Bodnar TJ, Brewer DD, Brownstein JS, Buckee C, Campbell EM, Cattuto C, Khandelwal S, Mabry PL, Vespignani A.
PLoS Comput Biol 2012-01-01
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Increased influenza-related healthcare utilization by residents of an urban aboriginal community.

Authors: Charland KM, Brownstein JS, Verma A, Brewer T, Jones S, Hoen AG, Buckeridge DL.
Epidemiol Infect 2011-12-01
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Effect of expanded US recommendations for seasonal influenza vaccination: comparison of two pediatric emergency departments in the United States and Canada.

Authors: Hoen AG, Buckeridge DL, Charland KM, Mandl KD, Quach C, Brownstein JS.
CMAJ 2011-09-20
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Human vs. animal outbreaks of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic.

Authors: Scotch M, Brownstein JS, Vegso S, Galusha D, Rabinowitz P.
Ecohealth 2011-09-01
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Integration and visualization of host-pathogen data related to infectious diseases.

Authors: Driscoll T, Gabbard JL, Mao C, Dalay O, Shukla M, Freifeld CC, Hoen AG, Brownstein JS, Sobral BW.
Bioinformatics 2011-08-15
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Using web search query data to monitor dengue epidemics: a new model for neglected tropical disease surveillance.

Authors: Chan EH, Sahai V, Conrad C, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2011-05-01
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Tracking the rise in popularity of electronic nicotine delivery systems (electronic cigarettes) using search query surveillance.

Authors: Ayers JW, Ribisl KM, Brownstein JS.
Am J Prev Med 2011-04-01
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Using search query surveillance to monitor tax avoidance and smoking cessation following the United States' 2009 "SCHIP" cigarette tax increase.

Authors: Ayers JW, Ribisl K, Brownstein JS.
PLoS One 2011-03-16
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Socio-economic disparities in the burden of seasonal influenza: the effect of social and material deprivation on rates of influenza infection.

Authors: Charland KM, Brownstein JS, Verma A, Brien S, Buckeridge DL.
PLoS One 2011-02-17
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