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. 

Underrepresentation of Phenotypic Variability of 16p13.11 Microduplication Syndrome Assessed With an Online Self-Phenotyping Tool (Phenotypr): Cohort Study.
Authors: Li J, Hojlo MA, Chennuri S, Gujral N, Paterson HL, Shefchek KA, Genetti CA, Cohn EL, Sewalk KC, Garvey EA, Buttermore ED, Anderson NC, Beggs AH, Agrawal PB, Brownstein JS, Haendel MA, Holm IA, Gonzalez-Heydrich J, Brownstein CA.
J Med Internet Res
View full abstract on Pubmed
Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study.
Authors: Rader B, White LF, Burns MR, Chen J, Brilliant J, Cohen J, Shaman J, Brilliant L, Kraemer MUG, Hawkins JB, Scarpino SV, Astley CM, Brownstein JS.
Lancet Digit Health
View full abstract on Pubmed
Hydration for Clean Air Todaya.
Authors: Edwards DA, Norden B, Karnath L, Yaghi O, Roy CJ, Johanson D, Ott M, Brownstein J, Grove J, Tomson G, Friberg P.
Mol Front J
View full abstract on Pubmed
Influenza forecasting for French regions combining EHR, web and climatic data sources with a machine learning ensemble approach.
Authors: Poirier C, Hswen Y, Bouzillé G, Cuggia M, Lavenu A, Brownstein JS, Brewer T, Santillana M.
PLoS One
View full abstract on Pubmed
Anosmia and other SARS-CoV-2 positive test-associated symptoms, across three national, digital surveillance platforms as the COVID-19 pandemic and response unfolded: an observation study.
Authors: Sudre CH, Keshet A, Graham MS, Joshi AD, Shilo S, Rossman H, Murray B, Molteni E, Klaser K, Canas LS, Antonelli M, Modat M, Capdevila Pujol J, Ganesh S, Wolf J, Meir T, Chan AT, Steves C, Spector T, Brownstein JS, Segal E, Ourselin S, Astley C.
medRxiv
View full abstract on Pubmed
Early detection of COVID-19 in China and the USA: summary of the implementation of a digital decision-support and disease surveillance tool.
Authors: Hswen Y, Brownstein JS, Xu X, Yom-Tov E.
BMJ Open
View full abstract on Pubmed
Crowding and the shape of COVID-19 epidemics.
Authors: Rader B, Scarpino SV, Nande A, Hill AL, Adlam B, Reiner RC, Pigott DM, Gutierrez B, Zarebski AE, Shrestha M, Brownstein JS, Castro MC, Dye C, Tian H, Pybus OG, Kraemer MUG.
Nat Med
View full abstract on Pubmed
Internet search patterns reveal firearm sales, policies, and deaths.
Authors: Brownstein JS, Nahari AD, Reis BY.
NPJ Digit Med
View full abstract on Pubmed
Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates.
Authors: Rader B, Astley CM, Sy KTL, Sewalk K, Hswen Y, Brownstein JS, Kraemer MUG.
J Travel Med
View full abstract on Pubmed
SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection in pregnant women: characterization of symptoms and syndromes predictive of disease and severity through real-time, remote participatory epidemiology.
Authors: Molteni E, Astley CM, Ma W, Sudre CH, Magee LA, Murray B, Fall T, Gomez MF, Tsereteli N, Franks PW, Brownstein JS, Davies R, Wolf J, Spector TD, Ourselin S, Steves CJ, Chan AT, Modat M.
medRxiv
View full abstract on Pubmed