John Brownstein

John Brownstein
Born
John S. Brownstein

Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Alma materMcGill University
AwardsPresidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, 2010
Scientific career
FieldsEpidemiology Informatics
InstitutionsHarvard Medical School Boston Children’s Hospital
Websitecompepi.org

John Brownstein is a Canadian epidemiologist and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School[1] as well as the Chief Innovation Officer at Boston Children’s Hospital.[2][3] His research focuses on development of computational methods in epidemiology for applications to public health also known as computational epidemiology or e-epidemiology[4] He is also the founder of several global public health surveillance systems including HealthMap. He is most known for his work on global tracking of disease outbreaks.[5][6]

  1. ^ "John Brownstein". Harvard Department of Biomedical Informatics. July 25, 2023. Archived from the original on November 19, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  2. ^ "Boston Children's taps John Brownstein as Chief Innovation Officer". June 15, 2015. Archived from the original on August 25, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  3. ^ "Meet the new CIO of Boston Children's Hospital John Brownstein".[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ "Computational Epidemiology Lab". www.compepi.org.
  5. ^ "Tracking Diseases Globally". Boston.com. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  6. ^ "When big tech companies want to get into health, they call this Harvard researcher". CNBC. July 8, 2017.