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. 

Utilizing general human movement models to predict the spread of emerging infectious diseases in resource poor settings.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Golding N, Bisanzio D, Bhatt S, Pigott DM, Ray SE, Brady OJ, Brownstein JS, Faria NR, Cummings DAT, Pybus OG, Smith DL, Tatem AJ, Hay SI, Reiner RC.
Sci Rep
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Passenger or Patient? The Automobile: A New Frontier in Health Promotion.
Authors: Shuter J, Rosander C, Kim RS, Brownstein JS.
Health Promot Pract
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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, Davis Weaver N, 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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Using Twitter to Detect Psychological Characteristics of Self-Identified Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Study.
Authors: Hswen Y, Gopaluni A, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
JMIR Mhealth Uhealth
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The distribution of antibiotic use and its association with antibiotic resistance.
Authors: Olesen SW, Barnett ML, MacFadden DR, Brownstein JS, Hernández-Díaz S, Lipsitch M, Grad YH.
Elife
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Monitoring Online Discussions About Suicide Among Twitter Users With Schizophrenia: Exploratory Study.
Authors: Hswen Y, Naslund JA, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
JMIR Ment Health
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Using Smartphone Crowdsourcing to Redefine Normal and Febrile Temperatures in Adults: Results from the Feverprints Study.
Authors: Hausmann JS, Berna R, Gujral N, Ayubi S, Hawkins J, Brownstein JS, Dedeoglu F.
J Gen Intern Med
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Estimation of Pneumonic Plague Transmission in Madagascar, August-November 2017.
Authors: Majumder MS, Cohn EL, Santillana M, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Curr
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Using Twitter to Examine Web-Based Patient Experience Sentiments in the United States: Longitudinal Study.
Authors: Sewalk KC, Tuli G, Hswen Y, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
J Med Internet Res
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What to know before forecasting the flu.
Authors: Chakraborty P, Lewis B, Eubank S, Brownstein JS, Marathe M, Ramakrishnan N.
PLoS Comput Biol
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