Awards & Press

Awards

2011

• (January 23, 2013). App of the Day: HealthMap's Outbreaks Near Me. News 10 abc.
  
• National Library of Medicine Grantee Dr. John Brownstein Wins Prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)

2010

• HealthMap | National Design Triennial: Why Design Now | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
• Englebart Prize for Best New Collaborative Tool presented at conference at The Tech Museum

Press

2013

• (May 6, 2013). Facebook can help track obesity rates based on what people 'like'. Boston.com
• Lindsay Abrams. (April 29, 2013). Study: Facebook Likes Predict Obesity. The Atlantic.
• (April 26, 2013). Could Facebook Assist Public Health Efforts to Track Obesity? Us News.
• Clare O'Connor. (April 26, 2013). Do You 'Like' Game Of Thrones Or SoulCycle? New Study Links Facebook Activity To Obesity. Forbes.
• (April 25, 2013). Facebook Activity Is Reflection Of U.S. Obesity Rates, Study Finds. Huffington Post.
• Emily Badgger. (April 25, 2013). Researchers Can Tell How Healthy Your Neighborhood Is From Your Facebook Page. The Atlantic Cities.
• Dennis Romero. (April 25, 2013). Facebook Knows If You're Fat. LA Weekly.
• Alexandra Sifferlin. (April 25, 2013). The Latest Tool for Tracking Obesity? Facebook Likes. Time.
• Pat Etheridge. (Apr 20 2013). Ending pandemics: How close are we? CNN Health.
• (Apr 20 2013). An ounce of prevention. The Economist.
• Rhitu Chatterjee. (April 11, 2013). Tweets and Germs: Monitoring Infectious Diseases Online. PRI's the World.
• Maryn McKenna. (April 5, 2013). The New Bird Flu, and How to Read the News About It. Wired.
• Mitchel L. Zoler. (March 25, 2013). FluNearYou spearheads U.S. participatory surveillance growth. Family Practice News.
• Jane E. Brody. (March 18, 2013). Planning for the Next Flu Season. New York Times.
• Adrian Bridgwater. (March 4, 2013). [App]cessorise: Facebook for joggers, cyclists and yoga fans. Gulf News.
• Julia Belluz. (February 22, 2013). Big Data: Bad science on steroids?. Macleans.
• Maryn McKenna. (February 21, 2013). Small Gadgets That Make You Healthier. Scientific American.
• Derrick Harris. (February 14, 2013). Google’s flu snafu and the reliability of web data. Gigaom.
• Declan Butler. (February 13, 2013). When Google got flu wrong. Nature.
• Nic Halverson. (January 16, 2013). 4 Ways You Can Track the Flu Online. mashable.com.
• Bernhard Warner. (January 16, 2013). Five Social Media Tools to Fight the Flu. businessweek.com.
• Steve Baragona. (January 13, 2013). New Technology Used to Track US Flu Outbreak. Voice of America.
• Claire McCarthy, M.D. (January 12, 2013). Flu Is Here: 5 Things Parents Must Do. Huffington Post.
• (January 10, 2013). Flu Near You on CNN. CNN.
  
• Reid Kanaley. (January 10, 2013). Influenza information, via smartphone. philly.com.
• JoNel Aleccia. (January 10, 2013). Nasty flu season sparks spotty vaccine shortages. NBC News.
• Lena H. Sun. (January 10, 2013). Flu vaccine supplies are low as severe season gets underway. The Washington Post.
• Helen Thompson. (January 10, 2013). Google and Twitter Help Track Influenza Outbreaks. National Geographic.
• P.J. Skerrett. (January 10, 2013). As flu cases spike, it isn’t too late to get the vaccine. Harvard Health Blog.
• (January 9, 2013). Michigan health officials confirm teen died from flu. clickondetroit.com.
• (January 9, 2013). Influenza information, via smartphone. philly.com.
• (January 9, 2013). Flu Near You: Amazing website reveals flu hot spots. National Monitor.
• (January 8, 2013). Flu Near You on MSNBC Nightly News. msnbc.com.
  
• Meghna Chakrabarti, Anthony Brooks. (January 8, 2013). CommonHealth: Flu Hits Mass. Early, With Force. wbur.org.
  
• Tony Lopez. (January 7, 2013). New Website Tracks Flu Hot Spots Throughout Country. sacramento.cbslocal.com.
  
• Kaylee Pfeiferling. (January 7, 2013). Local schools take precautions against flu outbreak. wgem.com.
• Richard Besser. (January 7, 2013). Flu Outbreak: Fighting the Virus With Social Media. ABC News.
  
• Daily Mail Reporter. (January 5, 2013). Flu infections sweep America hospitalizing thousands and leaving 18 children dead of complications, and it's going to get worse. dailymail.co.uk.
• JoNel Aleccia. (January 4, 2013). Early flu season accelerates; no peak yet, CDC says. NBC News.

2012

• Dana Dean. (Dec 3, 2012). Flu apps help you fight the fight. KSDK.com.
• Erin Allday. (November 13, 2012). Web can help track flu outbreaks. SF Gate.
• Julielynn Wong, M.D. (November 13, 2012). 10,000 Watchdogs Stand Guard Against the Flu. Huffington Post.
• Julia Belluz. (November 12, 2012). Beyond Dr. Google: How social media can improve our health. MACLEANS.CA
• Kerry A. Dolan. (November 6, 2012). Why Ebay Billionaire Jeff Skoll Is Backing The FluNearYou Initiative. Forbes.
• Richard Knox. (October 03, 2012). When New Diseases Emerge, Experts Are Faster On The Uptake. NPR.
• Claire McCarthy, M.D. (September 19, 2012). Why Health Care Needs Social Media. Huffington Post.
• Garth Hogan. (September 11, 2012). The Emerging Role of Social Media in Public Health. Microbe World.
• helsea Conaboy. (September 25, 2012). No reason to be alarmed, says Boston Children’s Hospital group tracking new virus related to common cold and SARS. Boston.com.
• (Aug. 22, 2012). The Afternoon Shift with Steve Edwards. WBEZ 91.5.
• Anna Tomasulo, Clark Friefeld, John Brownstein (July 20, 2012). Using Twitter to Put Disease Outbreaks on the Map. Science Friday
• Eric Savitz (June 22, 2012). Big Bets on Big Data. Forbes.com.
• Andy Oram (June 12, 2012). Data in use from public health to personal fitness. O'Reilly Radar.
• Connie St. Louis and Gozde Zorlu (May 17, 2012). Can Twitter predict disease outbreaks? BMJ.
• Catherine Smith. (April 20, 2012). Google's Spring Cleaning, April 2012: Web Giant Kills Off More Products. Huffington Post.
• Frederic Lardinois. (April 20, 2012). Spring Cleaning: Google Shuts Down Patent Search Homepage, One Pass, Google Related & More. Techcrunch.
• Joanne Nicholson. (April 5, 2012). Potential Olympic disease crisis has health officials on alert. Reuters.
  
• Lynne Peeples. (April 4, 2012). Global Warming May Bring More Lyme Disease, Ticks. Huffington Post.
• Niall Boyce. (March 31,2012). All watched over by machines of loving grace. The Lancet.
• Rebecca Boyle. (March 30, 2012). How Activist Data Mining Is Penetrating the Veil Around Syria's Bloody Conflict. Popsci.
• Jim Giles. (March 27, 2012). Mapping the human cost of Syria's uprising. NewsScientist Tech.
• Joseph Brownstein. (March 14, 2012). Social media helping to counter health myths. foxnews.com.
• (March 13, 2012). Free healthcare apps that could save your life. pharmamanagedcare.com.
• Mathew Ingram. (March 11, 2012). How Twitter data-tracked cholera in Haiti. 10 ways big data changes everything.
• Adam Cole. (February 24, 2012). Disease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online. NPR.
  
• Sabrina Richards. (February 14, 2012). Social Media for Epidemiology? The Scientist.
• Katherine Rowland. (February 14, 2012). Epidemiologists put social media in the spotlight. Nature.
• M. J. Friedrich. (February 2012). Cholera and Social Media. JAMA.
• Rebecca Hersher. (February 6, 2012). Internet data miners strike disease detection gold. Nature Medicine.
• Madison Park. (January 10, 2012). Tracking infectious disease on Twitter. CNN.
• Amie Newman. (January 10, 2012). How Twitter (And Other Social Media Tools) Help Track Disease Around the World. Gates foundation.
• Niall Firth. (January 10, 2012). Twitter helps track cholera spread in Haiti. NewScientist.
• Anastasia Moloney. (January 10, 2012). Doctors track Haiti cholera epidemic on Twitter –study. AlertNet.
• Kate Freeman. (January 10, 2012). Twitter Revealed Epidemic Two Weeks Before Health Officials [STUDY]. Mashable.com
• Daniela Hirschfeld. (January 10, 2012). Twitter data accurately tracked Haiti cholera outbreak. Nature News.
• (January 10, 2012). Médicos mapearon la epidemia de cólera en Haití por medio de Twitter. EFE.
• Cynthia Graber. (January 9, 2012). Social Media Tracks Disease Spread. Scientific American.
• Kim Krisberg. (January 4, 2012). New mapping tools bring public health surveillance to the masses. The Pump Handle.

2011

• (October 17, 2011). Twenty NIH-Supported Young Scientists Earn PECASE Honors. BioOptics World.
• Sharon Weinberger. (October 17, 2011). Spies to use Twitter as crystal ball. nature.com.
• Abbie Smith. (September 29, 2011). Tracking disease with search data and web technology. Healthcare Global.
• Jennifer Cutraro and Holly Epstein Ojalvo. (September 14, 2011). When Contagion Spreads: Crowdsourcing Disease Outbreaks. The New York Times Education Blog.
• Caleb Hellerman. (September 13, 2011). How 'Contagion' spread to the big screen. CNN Health.
• Carey Goldberg. (September 12, 2011). Can the effects of 'contagion' be catching? wbur.org CommonHealth Blog.
• Karen Weintraub. (September 12, 2011). Outbreak awareness via film. The Boston Globe.
• Emily Badger. (September 8, 2011). Spy Agency Seeks Digital Mosaic to Divine Future. Miller-McCune.
• Lucas Oleniuk. (September 8, 2011). Contagion plot realistic, Canadian doctors say. Toronto Star.
• Carly Weeks. (September 8, 2011). Think Contagion is pure Hollywood fiction? Think again, experts say. Globe and Mail.
• John Goddard. (August 22, 2011). On the trail of infectious disease. The Star.
• Juliette Terzieff. (August 19, 2011). Using technology to battle public health crises. The Future 500.
• Bryan Walsh. (August 16, 2011). Outbreak.com: Using the Web to Track Deadly Diseases in Real Time. Time.
• Carly Weeks (June 27, 2011). Social media could help detect pandemics, MD says. Globe and Mail.
• Dana Levenson. (June 2011). Preparing for a Pandemic, CTV News.
• Bronwyn Garrity. (June 13, 2011). Social Media Join Toolkit for Hunters of Disease. The New York Times.
• Helen Mendes and Kafil Yamin. (June 9, 2011). Google tool tracks dengue fever. AlertNet.
• Jane Langille. (June 3, 2011). HealthMap Visualizes Global Disease Outbreaks. Healthymagination.
• Devin Brown. (June 2, 2011). Google helping to fight spread of Dengue virus with new search tool. CBS News.
• Graham Smith. (June 2, 2011). Google launches Dengue Trends tool to help doctors track spread of deadly fever. Daily Mail.
• (June 1, 2011). Google will now track dengue. The International Business Times.
• Tiffany Hsu. (May 31, 2011). Google creates tracking tool for dengue outbreaks. Los Angeles Times.
• (May 31, 2011). Web searches are tool against dengue fever. UPI.
• Erica Naone. (May 31, 2011). Startup Hopes to Make Sickness Social. MIT Technology Review.
• (May 31, 2011). Google uses new tool to track dengue fever hubs. BBC News.
• Kyle Alspach. (May 31, 2011). Children's Hospital teams with Google to track outbreaks. Boston Business Journal.
• Kevin McCarthy. (May 31, 2011). Children's Hospital and Google team up to track disease outbreaks. BostInnovation.
• (May 31, 2011). mHealth: Google to Help Track, Combat Spread of Dengue Fever. Mobile Marketing Watch.
• Sara Yin. (May 31, 2011). Can Google Detect Dengue Fever Outbreak Too? PC Magazine.
• Geospatial Revolution: Tracking Disease. PennState Public Broadcasting.
• Deborah Kotz. (March 18, 2011). What Google searches reveal about our health habits. Boston.com.
• Adrianna Banaszek. (March 11, 2011). Tracking infectious diseases in cyberspace. CMAJ.
• Darla Carter. (February 24, 2011). Smartphone apps keep health at your fingertips, from fitness to first aid. USA Today.
• Donald G. McNeil Jr. (February 7, 2011). Outbreaks: A Tool to Track Animal Diseases May Help to Protect Humans. The New York Times.
• John Hendel. (February 3, 2011). In Europe, a Right to Be Forgotten Trumps the Memory of the Internet. The Atlantic.
• (January 19, 2011). Web Surveillance Maps Global Disease Trends. BBC.
• Harvard Health Publications (January 11, 2011). How To Put Your Smartphone "On Call". MSN Health.
• BBC Digital Planet (January 11, 2011)
  
• Jenara Nerenberg (January 11, 2011). HealthMap: The Crowdsourced Infectious Disease Tracker That Was Built On Nights and Weekends. Fast Company.

2010

• Lauren Gravitz (December 6, 2010). Forecasting Flu Pandemics Hinges on Insights into the Virus. MIT Technology Review.
• Colleen Zacharyczuk (December 13, 2010). Hajj 2010 regarded as a success in public health circles. Infectious Disease News.
• John Dodge (December 13, 2010). Disease and Disaster Mapping Goes Mobile. Cisco News.
• Art Chimes (December 3, 2010). Disease Outbreaks Reported Sooner. VOANews.com.
• Bryan Walsh (November 29, 2010). Global Microbe Detectives Are Getting Better at Tracking Disease Outbreaks. Time.
• Susan Adams (November 16, 2010). Names you need to know in 2011: crisis mapping. Forbes
• November 3, 2010. FROM THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: Announcement: Interactive CDC DengueMap Available Online. JAMA.
• John D. Sutter (October 29, 2010). Texts, maps battle Haiti cholera outbreak. CNN.
• October 28, 2010. HealthMap at TEDMED 2010
• Rachel Zimmerman (October 28, 2010). Introducing HealthMap: Tracking The Germs In Your Neighborhood. wbur.org
• Elizabeth Weise (October 25, 2010). Sites to track sick animals key early warning for humans. USA Today.
• Hunter Whitney (October 14, 2010). Beyond the Medical Chart: Information Visualization for Improving Personal and Public Health
• Arnaud Devillard (July 12, 2010). Healthmap, l'état sanitaire du monde sur une carte Google Maps. 01net.
• Dan Mauzy (June 28, 2010). Researchers Track World Cup Fever (Literally). WBUR.
• Elizabeth Cooney (June 11,2010). HealthMap monitoring World Cup. The Wall Street Journal.
• Tamara Cherry (June 10, 2010). Putting the boot to disease. Toronto Sun.
• Holland Cotter (May 13, 2010). Thinking Green: Function Over Form. The New York Times.
• Jennifer Chu (May 6, 2010). Tracking H1N1 through the Internet. MIT Technology Review.
• Katherine Harmon (April 12, 2010). Medicine goes mobile: iPhone apps take vitals, track viruses. Scientific American.
• Katherine Harmon (March 13, 2010). Advances in disease surveillance: Putting the "public" into public health. Scientific American.
• Rob Stephenson (March 8, 2010). Engelbart Prize and Semi-Finalists of the Program for the Future Challenge
• Siri Agrell (February 24, 2010). Olympic visitors bring lots to B.C. - including disease. The Globe and Mail.
• Deborah Yao (February 15, 2010). Fighting pandemics like swine flu in digital age.
• (February 12, 2010). NEWS SCAN: Tracking Olympic outbreaks, more Salmonella cases, H5N1 death. CIDRAP.
• Tahir Andrabi and Asim Ijaz Khwaja (January 20, 2010). Responding to disasters - can we act in time?. Boston Globe.

2009

Press About "Oubreaks Near Me", the iPhone App

• Roy Furchgott (November 11, 2009). Apps to Help Guard Against Flu, and Worse. New York Times.
• Andrew LaVallee (October 5, 2009). App Watch: A Mobile Swine-Flu Tracker. The Wall Street Journal.
• Eric Bland (September 16, 2009). Swine flu near? Ask your iPhone. Discovery News.
• Bryan Walsh (September 9, 2009). Is a Swine Flu Outbreak Coming? Ask Your iPhone. Time.
• Ted McEnroe (September 2, 2009). Gmail becomes a utility; and tracking H1N1 from your pocket. NECN.
• Shirley S. Wang (September 2, 2009). Fancy tools for tracking the flu. The Wall Street Journal Health Blog.
• (September 2, 2009). Canine flu got you worried? New iPhone app tracks outbreaks. USA Today.
• Sacha Pfeiffer (September 2, 2009). New iPhone app tracks infectious diseases. wbur.org.
• (September 2, 2009). Back to school and swine flu. ABC News.
• Samuel Goldsmith (September 2, 2009). Free iPhone app, ‘Outbreaks Near Me,’ helps users track swine flu. NY Daily News.
• Elizabeth Cooney (September 1, 2009). New app for iPhone brings disease outbreak maps to your neighborhood. The Boston Globe.
• Alexis Madrigal (September 1, 2009). iPhone App Finds Disease Outbreaks Near You. Wired Science.
• Katherine Harmon (September 1, 2009). Sick Mobile App Tracks H1N1, Other Outbreaks Near You. Scientific American.
• September 2009. NBC Nighly News / msnbc.com: Tracking swine flu? There's an app for that.

General HealthMap Press

• Carolyn Y. Johnson (September, 2009). Tracking Disease Globally. Boston Globe.
• John Brownstein, Kumanan Wilson (June, 2009). Getting an Edge on Disease Outbreaks. Global Health Council.
• (June, 2009). Using the Internet to Track Disease Outbreaks. VOA News.
• Jon Cohen (2009). Swine Flu Outbreak, Day by Day. Science Insider.
• Duncan Jefferies (2009). A web-crawling system is providing vital, up-to-date data on the global spread of disease – including swine flu. The Guardian
• Matt Phillips (2009). Travel is Down, But Not Enough to Prevent Spread of Swine Flu. The Wall Street Journal Blog.
• Bryan Walsh (2009). Why Border Controls Can't Keep Out the Flu Virus. Time Magazine.
• Emily Chung (2009). Did pandemic-watchers miss the signs online? cbcnews.ca
• Swine flu allows Twitter to show its power to mislead. CTV News
• Adam Ostrow (2009). Swine Flu on Twitter: How to Filter Out the Noise. Mashable.
• Ewen Callaway (2009). Why travel bans won't prevent a flu pandemic. NewScientist.
• Josh Levs (2009). Josh Levs shows us where outbreaks of the swine flu are. CNN.
• (2009). 2 Lowell Students Tested For Possible Swine Flu. WBZ TV.
• Elizabeth Cooney (2009). Tracking swine flu via Twitter. White Coat Notes, boston.com.
• Eric Bland (2009). Swine Flu Outbreak Tracked With Twitter. MSNBC Technology & Science, Discovery Channel News.
• Jon Swaine and Chris Irvine (2009). Swine flu: Twitter used to spread news around world. Telegraph.co.uk.
• Orlando Sentinel (2009). Track Swine Flu. Chicago Tribune.
• Michael Day (2009). Following Swine Flu Online: Tracking and communications could play a key role in combating a pandemic. MIT Technology Review.
• Jemima Kiss (2009). How swine flu infected the web. The Guardian UK Blog.
• Steven Levitt (2009). Google Will Save the World. The New York Times Freakonomics Blog.
• Thomas Jolicoeur, Canwest News Service (2009). Montrealer Helps Map Global Diseases. Canwest News Service.
• The Canadian Press (2009). Online Tools May Have Warned of Listeriosis Outbreak: Study. The Canadian Press.
• (2009). Listeriosis Web Searches Peaked Ahead of Outbreak. ctv.ca.
• Sharon Kirkey (2009). Web Searches May Have Foreshadowed Listeriosis Crisis. The Montreal Gazette.
• Jacob Goldstein (2009). Google Searches as Early Warning for Disease Outbreaks. The Wall Street Journal Health Blog.

2008

• Maria O'Meara (2008). Predicting pandemics: HealthMap.org tracks emerging hot spots in real time. Harvard Science.
• Lisa Mullins (2008). Google Tracking Global Health Problems. PRI's The World.
• Miguel Helft (2008). Google Uses Searches to Track Flu's Spread. The New York Times.
• Robert A. Guth (2008). Sniffly Surfing: Google Unveils Flu-Bug Tracker. The Wall Street Journal.
• Tim Ferguson (2008) Larry Brilliant: "Today is a good day to choose to save the world". silicon.com.
• Martin Enserink (2008) Google Grants Fight Disease. Science 322: 517.
• Nelson R (2008). HealthMap: the future of infectious diseases surveillance? Lancet Infect Dis 8: 596.
• Barclay E (2008). Predicting the next pandemic. Lancet.
• Mayor S (2008). Internet crawler uses new information sources to track disease outbreaks. BMJ.
• Hadhazy (2008). World Wide Wellness: Online Database Keeps Tabs on Emerging Health Threats, Scientific America.
• Bland E (2008). Web-Crawling Program ID’s Disease Outbreaks. Discovery Channel.
• Havenstein H (2008). Infectious disease surveillance 2.0: Crawling the Net to detect outbreaks. Computerworld.
• Drexler M (2008) Safety Net. The Journal of Life Sciences.

2007

• Hom K (2007) Before Traveling, You May Want a Checkup. Washington Post.
• Larkin M (2007) Technology and public health: Healthmap tracks global diseases. Lancet Infect Dis 7: 91. (Available only by subscription to Lancet.)

2006

• Holden C (2006) Netwatch: Diseases on the move. Science 314: 1363d.
• Captain S. (2006) Get your daily plague forecast. Wired News
• Pegg M. Google Maps Mania blog