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. 

Seven pillars of precision digital health and medicine.
Authors: Shaban-Nejad A, Michalowski M, Peek N, Brownstein JS, Buckeridge DL.
Artif Intell Med
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Lymelight: forecasting Lyme disease risk using web search data.
Authors: Sadilek A, Hswen Y, Bavadekar S, Shekel T, Brownstein JS, Gabrilovich E.
NPJ Digit Med
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Tuberculosis and foreign-born populations in the United States: A mixed methods pilot study of media reporting and political identification.
Authors: Desai AN, Seshasayee SM, Majumder MS, Lassmann B, Madoff LC, Cohn EL, Brownstein JS.
PLoS One
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Web and phone-based COVID-19 syndromic surveillance in Canada: A cross-sectional study.
Authors: Lapointe-Shaw L, Rader B, Astley CM, Hawkins JB, Bhatia D, Schatten WJ, Lee TC, Liu JJ, Ivers NM, Stall NM, Gournis E, Tuite AR, Fisman DN, Bogoch II, Brownstein JS.
PLoS One
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Interest in Tobacco Treatment Delivered During Rideshare Travel.
Authors: Shuter J, Yang A, Kim RS, Brownstein JS.
Mayo Clin Proc Innov Qual Outcomes
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Real-time Epidemic Forecasting: Challenges and Opportunities.
Authors: Desai AN, Kraemer MUG, Bhatia S, Cori A, Nouvellet P, Herringer M, Cohn EL, Carrion M, Brownstein JS, Madoff LC, Lassmann B.
Health Secur
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Real-Time Digital Surveillance of Vaping-Induced Pulmonary Disease.
Authors: Hswen Y, Brownstein JS.
N Engl J Med
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Publisher Correction: Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Reiner RC, Brady OJ, Messina JP, Gilbert M, Pigott DM, Yi D, Johnson K, Earl L, Marczak LB, Shirude S, Weaver ND, Bisanzio D, Perkins TA, Lai S, Lu X, Jones P, Coelho GE, Carvalho RG, Van Bortel W, Marsboom C, Hendrickx G, Schaffner F, Moore CG, Nax HH, Bengtsson L, Wetter E, Tatem AJ, Brownstein JS, Smith DL, Lambrechts L, Cauchemez S, Linard C, Faria NR, Pybus OG, Scott TW, Liu Q, Yu H, Wint GRW, Hay SI, Golding N.
Nat Microbiol
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Publisher Correction: Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Reiner RC, Brady OJ, Messina JP, Gilbert M, Pigott DM, Yi D, Johnson K, Earl L, Marczak LB, Shirude S, Weaver ND, Bisanzio D, Perkins TA, Lai S, Lu X, Jones P, Coelho GE, Carvalho RG, Van Bortel W, Marsboom C, Hendrickx G, Schaffner F, Moore CG, Nax HH, Bengtsson L, Wetter E, Tatem AJ, Brownstein JS, Smith DL, Lambrechts L, Cauchemez S, Linard C, Faria NR, Pybus OG, Scott TW, Liu Q, Yu H, Wint GRW, Hay SI, Golding N.
Nat Microbiol
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Feasibility of using social media to monitor outdoor air pollution in London, England.
Authors: Hswen Y, Qin Q, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
Prev Med
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