John Brownstein

John Brownstein, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital

Affiliate Member, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Research
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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.

Surveillance for Neisseria meningitidis Disease Activity and Transmission Using Information Technology.

Authors: Ahmed SS, Oviedo-Orta E, Mekaru SR, Freifeld CC, Tougas G, Brownstein JS.
PLoS One 2015-01-01
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Spatial and Temporal Clustering of Chikungunya Virus Transmission in Dominica.

Authors: Nsoesie EO, Ricketts RP, Brown HE, Fish D, Durham DP, Ndeffo Mbah ML, Christian T, Ahmed S, Marcellin C, Shelly E, Owers K, Wenzel N, Galvani AP, Brownstein JS.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2015-01-01
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Enhancing disease surveillance with novel data streams: challenges and opportunities.

Authors: Althouse BM, Scarpino SV, Meyers LA, Ayers JW, Bargsten M, Baumbach J, Brownstein JS, Castro L, Clapham H, Cummings DA, Del Valle S, Eubank S, Fairchild G, Finelli L, Generous N, George D, Harper DR, Hébert-Dufresne L, Johansson MA, Konty K, Lipsitch M, Milinovich G, Miller JD, Nsoesie EO, Olson DR, Paul M, Polgreen PM, Priedhorsky R, Read JM, Rodríguez-Barraquer I, Smith DJ, Stefansen C, Swerdlow DL, Thompson D, Vespignani A, Wesolowski A.
EPJ Data Sci 2015-01-01
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Increasing Patient Engagement in Pharmacovigilance Through Online Community Outreach and Mobile Reporting Applications: An Analysis of Adverse Event Reporting for the Essure Device in the US.

Authors: Bahk CY, Goshgarian M, Donahue K, Freifeld CC, Menone CM, Pierce CE, Rodriguez H, Brownstein JS, Furberg R, Dasgupta N.
Pharmaceut Med 2015-01-01
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Using internet search queries for infectious disease surveillance: screening diseases for suitability.

Authors: Milinovich GJ, Avril SM, Clements AC, Brownstein JS, Tong S, Hu W.
BMC Infect Dis 2014-12-31
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Using clinicians' search query data to monitor influenza epidemics.

Authors: Santillana M, Nsoesie EO, Mekaru SR, Scales D, Brownstein JS.
Clin Infect Dis 2014-11-15
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Digital surveillance for enhanced detection and response to outbreaks.

Authors: Anema A, Kluberg S, Wilson K, Hogg RS, Khan K, Hay SI, Tatem AJ, Brownstein JS.
Lancet Infect Dis 2014-11-01
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Internet and free press are associated with reduced lags in global outbreak reporting.

Authors: McAlarnen L, Smith K, Brownstein JS, Jerde C.
PLoS Curr 2014-10-30
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A case study of the New York City 2012-2013 influenza season with daily geocoded Twitter data from temporal and spatiotemporal perspectives.

Authors: Nagar R, Yuan Q, Freifeld CC, Santillana M, Nojima A, Chunara R, Brownstein JS.
J Med Internet Res 2014-10-20
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Online reports of foodborne illness capture foods implicated in official foodborne outbreak reports.

Authors: Nsoesie EO, Kluberg SA, Brownstein JS.
Prev Med 2014-10-01
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