John Brownstein is a Canadian epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School as well as the Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children's Hospital.
23 Facts About John Brownstein
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John Brownstein's research focuses on development of computational methods in epidemiology for applications to public health known as computational epidemiology or e-epidemiology He is the founder of several global public health surveillance systems including HealthMap.
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John Brownstein is most known for his work on global tracking of disease outbreaks.
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John Brownstein is a descendant of the founders of Browns Shoes.
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John Brownstein grew up in Montreal and obtained his bachelor's degree in biology from the McGill University in 1999.
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John Brownstein joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital in 2005, where he focused on the intersection of epidemiology and computer science.
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John Brownstein directs the Computational Epidemiology Group at Boston Children's Hospital and the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator at Boston Children.
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John Brownstein was appointed as full Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School in 2015; tenured at age 36, he was one of the youngest professors to receive tenure in the modern history of Harvard Medical School.
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John Brownstein received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2010 and the Lagrange Prize in 2016.
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John Brownstein was honored with the 40 under 40 award by Boston Business Journal in 2015 and by Medtech Boston in 2016.
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John Brownstein's pioneered the creation of Computational epidemiology and E-epidemiology- utilizing diverse digital data sources to understand populations.
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John Brownstein has published 200 peer-reviewed papers, all focused on new methods and applications in public health surveillance.
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John Brownstein's work is credited with supporting early detection and surveillance of Cholera in 2010, Ebola in 2014, Zika in 2015.
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John Brownstein's work has led to the application of crowdsourcing in health; a field termed "participatory epidemiology".
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John Brownstein's work has been funded from diverse array of sources including The US Department of Defense, Google.
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On December 30,2019, the HealthMap system led by John Brownstein was the first electronic disease surveillance program to issue an alert for an unknown pneumonia in Wuhan, China.
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John Brownstein coauthored a controversial paper that analyzed satellite image data and search engine traffic data and speculated that COVID-May 19 have started as early as Fall 2019 in Wuhan.
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John Brownstein published one of the first empirical manuscripts that showed the usage of face masks were effective at decreasing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in the US population.
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In partnership with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Department of Health and Human Services, John Brownstein's team transitioned VaccineFinder to power the newly announced US government SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-finding website, Vaccines.
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John Brownstein is co-founder of Epidemico a commercial spinoff of Boston Children's Hospital that was acquired by Booz Allen Hamilton in 2014.
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John Brownstein is the official advisor to Uber on healthcare applications where he started the UberHealth initiative.
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John Brownstein joined ABC News as a Medical Contributor as part of their COVID-19 pandemic coverage.
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John Brownstein won an Emmy as part of the team behind the ABC special The Shot: Race for the Vaccine, a documentary on the making of the COVID vaccine.