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. 

An Evaluation of the Impact of an OPEN Stewardship Generated Feedback Intervention on Antibiotic Prescribing among Primary Care Veterinarians in Canada and Israel.
Authors: Acharya KR, Cohen A, Brankston G, Soucy JR, Hulth A, Löfmark S, Brownstein JS, Davidovich N, Ellen ME, Fisman DN, Moran-Gilad J, Steinman A, MacFadden DR, Greer AL.
Animals (Basel)
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Characterizing collective physical distancing in the U.S. during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Authors: Klein B, LaRock T, McCabe S, Torres L, Friedland L, Kos M, Privitera F, Lake B, Kraemer MUG, Brownstein JS, Gonzalez R, Lazer D, Eliassi-Rad T, Scarpino SV, Vespignani A, Chinazzi M.
PLOS Digit Health
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Travel Time and Costs for Abortion for Military Service Members After the Dobbs Decision.
Authors: Rader B, Hswen Y, Sehgal NKR, Brownstein JS.
JAMA
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Infectious disease surveillance needs for the United States: lessons from Covid-19.
Authors: Lipsitch M, Bassett MT, Brownstein JS, Elliott P, Eyre D, Grabowski MK, Hay JA, Johansson MA, Kissler SM, Larremore DB, Layden JE, Lessler J, Lynfield R, MacCannell D, Madoff LC, Metcalf CJE, Meyers LA, Ofori SK, Quinn C, Bento AI, Reich NG, Riley S, Rosenfeld R, Samore MH, Sampath R, Slayton RB, Swerdlow DL, Truelove S, Varma JK, Grad YH.
Front Public Health
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Decreased Seasonal Influenza Rates Detected in a Crowdsourced Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance System During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Prospective Cohort Study.
Authors: Gertz A, Rader B, Sewalk K, Varrelman TJ, Smolinski M, Brownstein JS.
JMIR Public Health Surveill
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The impact of the federal menu labeling law on the sentiment of Twitter discussions about restaurants and food retailers: An interrupted time series analysis.
Authors: Hswen Y, Moran AJ, von Ash T, Prasad S, Martheswaran T, Simon D, Cleveland LP, Brownstein JS, Block JP.
Prev Med Rep
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Association of vaccination, international travel, public health and social measures with lineage dynamics of SARS-CoV-2.
Authors: Yang L, Wang Z, Wang L, Vrancken B, Wang R, Wei Y, Rader B, Wu CH, Chen Y, Wu P, Li B, Lin Q, Dong L, Cui Y, Shi M, Brownstein JS, Stenseth NC, Yang R, Tian H.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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Quality of Layperson CPR Instructions From Artificial Intelligence Voice Assistants.
Authors: Murk W, Goralnick E, Brownstein JS, Landman AB.
JAMA Netw Open
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Global Flu View: enabling multi-centric participatory disease surveillance for global health enhancement: a viewpoint.
Authors: Leal Neto O, Paolotti D, Dalton C, Carlson S, Susumpow P, Parker M, Phetra P, Lau E, Colizza V, Jan van Hoek A, Kjelsø C, Brownstein JS, Smolinski MS.
JMIR Public Health Surveill
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Innovative platforms for data aggregation, linkage and analysis in the context of pandemic and epidemic intelligence.
Authors: Blauer B, Brownstein JS, Gardner L, Kraemer MU, Leiva Rioja ZB, Mathieu E, Redies I, Morgan OW.
Euro Surveill
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