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. 

No place to hide--reverse identification of patients from published maps.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Cassa CA, Mandl KD.
N Engl J Med
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Empirical evidence for the effect of airline travel on inter-regional influenza spread in the United States.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Wolfe CJ, Mandl KD.
PLoS Med
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Lumbar puncture ordering and results in the pediatric population: a promising data source for surveillance systems.
Authors: Kimia A, Brownstein JS, Olson KL, Zak V, Bourgeois FT, Mandl KD.
Acad Emerg Med
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Spatiotemporal patterns of host-seeking Ixodes scapularis nymphs (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States.
Authors: Diuk-Wasser MA, Gatewood AG, Cortinas MR, Yaremych-Hamer S, Tsao J, Kitron U, Hickling G, Brownstein JS, Walker E, Piesman J, Fish D.
J Med Entomol
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Validation of syndromic surveillance for respiratory infections.
Authors: Bourgeois FT, Olson KL, Brownstein JS, McAdam AJ, Mandl KD.
Ann Emerg Med
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Reengineering real time outbreak detection systems for influenza epidemic monitoring.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Mandl KD.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc
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Forest fragmentation predicts local scale heterogeneity of Lyme disease risk.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Skelly DK, Holford TR, Fish D.
Oecologia
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Running outside the baseline: impact of the 2004 Major League Baseball postseason on emergency department use.
Authors: Reis BY, Brownstein JS, Mandl KD.
Ann Emerg Med
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Identifying pediatric age groups for influenza vaccination using a real-time regional surveillance system.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Kleinman KP, Mandl KD.
Am J Epidemiol
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Effect of Climate Change on Lyme Disease Risk in North America.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Holford TR, Fish D.
Ecohealth
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