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. 

Investigation of Geographic and Macrolevel Variations in LGBTQ Patient Experiences: Longitudinal Social Media Analysis.
Authors: Hswen Y, Zhang A, Sewalk KC, Tuli G, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
J Med Internet Res
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Evaluation of Volume of News Reporting and Opioid-Related Deaths in the United States: Comparative Analysis Study of Geographic and Socioeconomic Differences.
Authors: Hswen Y, Zhang A, Freifeld C, Brownstein JS.
J Med Internet Res
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The COronavirus Pandemic Epidemiology (COPE) Consortium: A Call to Action.
Authors: Chan AT, Drew DA, Nguyen LH, Joshi AD, Ma W, Guo CG, Lo CH, Mehta RS, Kwon S, Sikavi DR, Magicheva-Gupta MV, Fatehi ZS, Flynn JJ, Leonardo BM, Albert CM, Andreotti G, Beane-Freeman LE, Balasubramanian BA, Brownstein JS, Bruinsma F, Cowan AN, Deka A, Ernst ME, Figueiredo JC, Franks PW, Gardner CD, Ghobrial IM, Haiman CA, Hall JE, Deming-Halverson SL, Kirpach B, Lacey JV, Marchand LL, Marinac CR, Martinez ME, Milne RL, Murray AM, Nash D, Palmer JR, Patel AV, Rosenberg L, Sandler DP, Sharma SV, Schurman SH, Wilkens LR, Chavarro JE, Eliassen AH, Hart JE, Kang JH, Koenen KC, Kubzansky LD, Mucci LA, Ourselin S, Rich-Edwards JW, Song M, Stampfer MJ, Steves CJ, Willett WC, Wolf J, Spector T.
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev
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Sharing patient-level real-time COVID-19 data.
Authors: Komorowski M, Kraemer MUG, Brownstein JS.
Lancet Digit Health
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Use of Twitter social media activity as a proxy for human mobility to predict the spatiotemporal spread of COVID-19 at global scale.
Authors: Bisanzio D, Kraemer MUG, Bogoch II, Brewer T, Brownstein JS, Reithinger R.
Geospat Health
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Use of social media to assess the impact of equitable state policies on LGBTQ patient experiences: An exploratory study.
Authors: Hswen Y, Zhang A, Sewalk K, Tuli G, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
Healthc (Amst)
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The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Yang CH, Gutierrez B, Wu CH, Klein B, Pigott DM, du Plessis L, Faria NR, Li R, Hanage WP, Brownstein JS, Layan M, Vespignani A, Tian H, Dye C, Pybus OG, Scarpino SV.
Science
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Dynamics of conflict during the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2018-2019.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Pigott DM, Hill SC, Vanderslott S, Reiner RC, Stasse S, Brownstein JS, Gutierrez B, Dennig F, Hay SI, Wint GRW, Pybus OG, Castro MC, Vinck P, Pham PN, Nilles EJ, Cauchemez S.
BMC Med
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Epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak, real-time case information.
Authors: Xu B, Gutierrez B, Mekaru S, Sewalk K, Goodwin L, Loskill A, Cohn EL, Hswen Y, Hill SC, Cobo MM, Zarebski AE, Li S, Wu CH, Hulland E, Morgan JD, Wang L, O'Brien K, Scarpino SV, Brownstein JS, Pybus OG, Pigott DM, Kraemer MUG.
Sci Data
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The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Yang CH, Gutierrez B, Wu CH, Klein B, Pigott DM, du Plessis L, Faria NR, Li R, Hanage WP, Brownstein JS, Layan M, Vespignani A, Tian H, Dye C, Cauchemez S, Pybus OG, Scarpino SV.
medRxiv
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