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. 

Investigating inequities in hospital care among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals using social media.
Authors: Hswen Y, Sewalk KC, Alsentzer E, Tuli G, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
Soc Sci Med
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Online Communication about Depression and Anxiety among Twitter Users with Schizophrenia: Preliminary Findings to Inform a Digital Phenotype Using Social Media.
Authors: Hswen Y, Naslund JA, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB.
Psychiatr Q
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Comparison of crowd-sourced, electronic health records based, and traditional health-care based influenza-tracking systems at multiple spatial resolutions in the United States of America.
Authors: Baltrusaitis K, Brownstein JS, Scarpino SV, Bakota E, Crawley AW, Conidi G, Gunn J, Gray J, Zink A, Santillana M.
BMC Infect Dis
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Antibiotic Resistance Increases with Local Temperature.
Authors: MacFadden DR, McGough SF, Fisman D, Santillana M, Brownstein JS.
Nat Clim Chang
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The Biopsychosocial-Digital Approach to Health and Disease: Call for a Paradigm Expansion.
Authors: Ahmadvand A, Gatchel R, Brownstein J, Nissen L.
J Med Internet Res
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Evaluation of the EpiCore outbreak verification system.
Authors: Lorthe TS, Pollack MP, Lassmann B, Brownstein JS, Cohn E, Divi N, Herrera-Guibert DJ, Olsen J, Smolinski MS, Madoff LC.
Bull World Health Organ
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Evaluating the Implementation of a Twitter-Based Foodborne Illness Reporting Tool in the City of St. Louis Department of Health.
Authors: Harris JK, Hinyard L, Beatty K, Hawkins JB, Nsoesie EO, Mansour R, Brownstein JS.
Int J Environ Res Public Health
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Accurate Influenza Monitoring and Forecasting Using Novel Internet Data Streams: A Case Study in the Boston Metropolis.
Authors: Lu FS, Hou S, Baltrusaitis K, Shah M, Leskovec J, Sosic R, Hawkins J, Brownstein J, Conidi G, Gunn J, Gray J, Zink A, Santillana M.
JMIR Public Health Surveill
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Social Media Impact of the Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety Communication Messaging About Zolpidem: Mixed-Methods Analysis.
Authors: Sinha MS, Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS, Donneyong MM, Rausch P, Lappin BM, Zhou EH, Dal Pan GJ, Pawar AM, Hwang TJ, Avorn J, Kesselheim AS.
JMIR Public Health Surveill
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Inferences about spatiotemporal variation in dengue virus transmission are sensitive to assumptions about human mobility: a case study using geolocated tweets from Lahore, Pakistan.
Authors: Kraemer MUG, Bisanzio D, Reiner RC, Zakar R, Hawkins JB, Freifeld CC, Smith DL, Hay SI, Brownstein JS, Perkins TA.
EPJ Data Sci
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