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. 

The power of social networking in medicine.
Authors: Brownstein CA, Brownstein JS, Williams DS, Wicks P, Heywood JA.
Nat Biotechnol
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Evaluation of the United States Department Of Agriculture Northeast Area-wide Tick Control Project by meta-analysis.
Authors: Brei B, Brownstein JS, George JE, Pound JM, Miller JA, Daniels TJ, Falco RC, Stafford KC, Schulze TL, Mather TN, Carroll JF, Fish D.
Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis
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Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Madoff LC.
N Engl J Med
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Influenza A (H1N1) virus, 2009--online monitoring.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Madoff LC.
N Engl J Med
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Use of unstructured event-based reports for global infectious disease surveillance.
Authors: Keller M, Blench M, Tolentino H, Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Mawudeku A, Eysenbach G, Brownstein JS.
Emerg Infect Dis
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Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet.
Authors: Wilson K, Brownstein JS.
CMAJ
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National addictions vigilance intervention and prevention program (NAVIPPRO): a real-time, product-specific, public health surveillance system for monitoring prescription drug abuse.
Authors: Butler SF, Budman SH, Licari A, Cassidy TA, Lioy K, Dickinson J, Brownstein JS, Benneyan JC, Green TC, Katz N.
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf
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HealthMap: global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports.
Authors: Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Reis BY, Brownstein JS.
J Am Med Inform Assoc
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Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence and the HealthMap project.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Reis BY, Mandl KD.
PLoS Med
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Pediatric population size is associated with geographic patterns of acute respiratory infections among adults.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Mandl KD.
Ann Emerg Med
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