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. 

Evaluation of influenza prevention in the workplace using a personally controlled health record: randomized controlled trial.
Authors: Bourgeois FT, Simons WW, Olson K, Brownstein JS, Mandl KD.
J Med Internet Res
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Age-related trends in the timeliness and prediction of medical visits, hospitalizations and deaths due to pneumonia and influenza, British Columbia, Canada, 1998-2004.
Authors: Sebastian R, Skowronski DM, Chong M, Dhaliwal J, Brownstein JS.
Vaccine
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Estimating excess mortality in post-invasion Iraq.
Authors: Brownstein CA, Brownstein JS.
N Engl J Med
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Efficacy of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Authors: Anema A, Mills E, Montaner J, Brownstein JS, Cooper C.
HIV Med
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HealthMap: the development of automated real-time internet surveillance for epidemic intelligence.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC.
Euro Surveill
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The new International Health Regulations: considerations for global public health surveillance.
Authors: Sturtevant JL, Anema A, Brownstein JS.
Disaster Med Public Health Prep
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The tell-tale heart: population-based surveillance reveals an association of rofecoxib and celecoxib with myocardial infarction.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Sordo M, Kohane IS, Mandl KD.
PLoS One
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Automated real time constant-specificity surveillance for disease outbreaks.
Authors: Wieland SC, Brownstein JS, Berger B, Mandl KD.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak
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Density-equalizing Euclidean minimum spanning trees for the detection of all disease cluster shapes.
Authors: Wieland SC, Brownstein JS, Berger B, Mandl KD.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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An unsupervised classification method for inferring original case locations from low-resolution disease maps.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Cassa CA, Kohane IS, Mandl KD.
Int J Health Geogr
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