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Overview

John S. Brownstein is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on medicine, with a significant emphasis on epidemiology, modeling and simulation, health, infectious diseases, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

The main topics of their work include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
  • Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

The most frequent coauthors collaborating with Brownstein are:

  • Benjamin Rader
  • Christina M. Astley
  • Kara Sewalk
  • Yulin Hswen
  • Moritz U. G. Kraemer

Brownstein has published extensively in several venues, most notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Lancet Digital Health
  • npj Digital Medicine
  • UNC Libraries
  • JAMA

Among their recent significant publications are:

  • "The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China" (2020, Science)
  • "Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study" (2020, The Lancet Public Health)
  • "Factors Associated With US Adults' Likelihood of Accepting COVID-19 Vaccination" (2020, JAMA Network Open)
  • "Epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak, real-time case information" (2020, Scientific Data)
  • "Rapid implementation of mobile technology for real-time epidemiology of COVID-19" (2020, Science)

Best Publications

  • The global distribution and burden of dengue

    Samir Bhatt;Peter W. Gething;Oliver J. Brady;Jane P. Messina

  • Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health.

    Matthew C. Fisher;Daniel. A. Henk;Cheryl J. Briggs;John S. Brownstein

  • The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China.

    Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Chia-Hung Yang;Bernardo Gutierrez;Bernardo Gutierrez;Chieh-Hsi Wu

  • Refining the global spatial limits of dengue virus transmission by evidence-based consensus

    Oliver J. Brady;Peter W. Gething;Samir Bhatt;Jane P. Messina

  • Risk of COVID-19 among front-line health-care workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study.

    Long H. Nguyen;David A. Drew;Mark S. Graham;Amit D. Joshi

  • Past and future spread of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.

    Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Moritz U. G. Kraemer;Robert C. Reiner;Oliver J. Brady;Jane P. Messina

  • Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance

    John S. Brownstein;Clark C. Freifeld;Lawrence C. Madoff

  • Factors Associated With US Adults' Likelihood of Accepting COVID-19 Vaccination.

    Sarah Kreps;Sandip Prasad;John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;Yulin Hswen

  • Anticipating the international spread of Zika virus from Brazil

    Isaac I Bogoch;Isaac I Bogoch;Oliver J Brady;Moritz U G Kraemer;Matthew German

  • HealthMap: global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports.

    Clark C. Freifeld;Kenneth D. Mandl;Kenneth D. Mandl;Kenneth D. Mandl;Ben Y. Reis;Ben Y. Reis;Ben Y. Reis;John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein

  • GeoSentinel Surveillance of Illness in Returned Travelers, 2007–2011

    Karin Sharona Leder;Joseph Torresi;Michael D Libman;Jakob P Cramer

  • Social and news media enable estimation of epidemiological patterns early in the 2010 Haitian cholera outbreak.

    Rumi Chunara;Jason R. Andrews;John S. Brownstein

  • Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence and the HealthMap project.

    John S Brownstein;Clark C Freifeld;Ben Y Reis;Kenneth D Mandl

  • Combining Search, Social Media, and Traditional Data Sources to Improve Influenza Surveillance.

    Mauricio Santillana;André T. Nguyen;Mark Dredze;Michael J. Paul

  • Epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak, real-time case information.

    Bo Xu;Bo Xu;Bernardo Gutierrez;Bernardo Gutierrez;Sumiko Mekaru;Sumiko Mekaru;Kara Sewalk

  • Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa

    David M. Pigott;Nick Golding;Adrian Mylne;Zhi Huang

  • Antibiotic resistance increases with local temperature

    Derek R. MacFadden;Sarah F. McGough;David N. Fisman;Mauricio Santillana

  • Mapping global environmental suitability for Zika virus

    Jane P. Messina;Moritz Ug G. Kraemer;Oliver J. Brady;David M. Pigott;David M. Pigott

  • Tracking the Rise in Popularity of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (Electronic Cigarettes) Using Search Query Surveillance

    John W. Ayers;Kurt M. Ribisl;John S. Brownstein;John S. Brownstein

  • Association Between Fine Particulate Matter and Diabetes Prevalence in the U.S.

    John F. Pearson;Chethan Bachireddy;Sangameswaran Shyamprasad;Allison B. Goldfine

Frequent Co-Authors

Moritz U G Kraemer
Moritz U G Kraemer University of Oxford
Simon I. Hay
Simon I. Hay University of Washington
Kenneth D. Mandl
Kenneth D. Mandl Harvard Medical School
David M. Pigott
David M. Pigott University of Washington
Lawrence C. Madoff
Lawrence C. Madoff Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Naren Ramakrishnan
Naren Ramakrishnan Virginia Tech
Andrew J. Tatem
Andrew J. Tatem University of Southampton
Peter W. Gething
Peter W. Gething Telethon Kids Institute
David L. Smith
David L. Smith University of Washington
Durland Fish
Durland Fish Yale University

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