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. 

Beyond the First Dose - Covid-19 Vaccine Follow-through and Continued Protective Measures.
Authors: Goldfarb JL, Kreps S, Brownstein JS, Kriner DL.
N Engl J Med
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Estimating the incidence of cocaine use and mortality with music lyrics about cocaine.
Authors: Hswen Y, Zhang A, Brownstein JS.
NPJ Digit Med
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Evaluating an app-guided self-test for influenza: lessons learned for improving the feasibility of study designs to evaluate self-tests for respiratory viruses.
Authors: Zigman Suchsland ML, Rahmatullah I, Lutz B, Lyon V, Huang S, Kline E, Graham C, Cooper S, Su P, Smedinghoff S, Chu HY, Sewalk K, Brownstein JS, Thompson MJ.
BMC Infect Dis
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Associations between changes in population mobility in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and socioeconomic factors at the city level in China and country level worldwide: a retrospective, observational study.
Authors: Liu Y, Wang Z, Rader B, Li B, Wu CH, Whittington JD, Zheng P, Stenseth NC, Bjornstad ON, Brownstein JS, Tian H.
Lancet Digit Health
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Public attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination: The role of vaccine attributes, incentives, and misinformation.
Authors: Kreps S, Dasgupta N, Brownstein JS, Hswen Y, Kriner DL.
NPJ Vaccines
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Association of "#covid19" Versus "#chinesevirus" With Anti-Asian Sentiments on Twitter: March 9-23, 2020.
Authors: Hswen Y, Xu X, Hing A, Hawkins JB, Brownstein JS, Gee GC.
Am J Public Health
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Covid-19 vaccine apps should deliver more to patients.
Authors: Dasgupta N, Lazard A, Brownstein JS.
Lancet Digit Health
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The effect of seasonal respiratory virus transmission on syndromic surveillance for COVID-19 in Ontario, Canada.
Authors: Maharaj AS, Parker J, Hopkins JP, Gournis E, Bogoch II, Rader B, Astley CM, Ivers N, Hawkins JB, VanStone N, Tuite AR, Fisman DN, Brownstein JS, Lapointe-Shaw L.
Lancet Infect Dis
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Using digital surveillance tools for near real-time mapping of the risk of infectious disease spread.
Authors: Bhatia S, Lassmann B, Cohn E, Desai AN, Carrion M, Kraemer MUG, Herringer M, Brownstein J, Madoff L, Cori A, Nouvellet P.
NPJ Digit Med
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Symptoms and syndromes associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity in pregnant women from two community cohorts.
Authors: Molteni E, Astley CM, Ma W, Sudre CH, Magee LA, Murray B, Fall T, Gomez MF, Tsereteli N, Franks PW, Brownstein JS, Davies R, Wolf J, Spector TD, Ourselin S, Steves CJ, Chan AT, Modat M.
Sci Rep
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