Publications, Presentations & Press
Publications
2010
- Pearson JF, Bachireddy C, Shyamprasad S, Goldfine AB, Brownstein JS. Association between Fine Particulate Matter and Diabetes Prevalence in the United States. Diabetes Care. 2010 Jul 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20628090.
- Wilson K, Brownstein JS, Fidler DP. Strengthening the International Health Regulations: lessons from the H1N1 pandemic. Health Policy Plan. 2010 Jul 1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20595331.
- Brownstein JS, Green TC, Cassidy TA, Butler SF. Geographic information systems and pharmacoepidemiology: using spatial cluster detection to monitor local patterns of prescription opioid abuse. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2010 Jun;19(6):627-37. PubMed PMID: 20535759.
- Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Chan EH, Keller M, Sonricker AL, Mekaru SR, Buckeridge DL. Information technology and global surveillance of cases of 2009 H1N1 influenza. N Engl J Med. 2010 May 6;362(18):1731-5. PubMed PMID: 20445186.
- Khan K, Freifeld CC, Wang J, Mekaru SR, Kossowsky D, Sonricker AL, Hu W, Sears J, Chan A, Brownstein JS. Preparing for infectious disease threats at mass gatherings: the case of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. CMAJ. 2010 Apr 6;182(6):579-83. Epub 2010 Feb 24. PubMed PMID: 20181726; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2845686.
- Hoen AG, Buckeridge DL, Chan EH, Freifeld CC, Keller M, Charland K, Donnelly CA, Brownstein JS. Characteristics of US public schools with reported cases of novel influenza A (H1N1). Int J Infect Dis. 2010 Apr 1. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 20363169.
- Brownstein JS, Murphy SN, Goldfine AB, Grant RW, Sordo M, Gainer V, Colecchi JA, Dubey A, Nathan DM, Glaser JP, Kohane IS. Rapid identification of myocardial infarction risk associated with diabetes medications using electronic medical records. Diabetes Care. 2010 Mar;33(3):526-31. Epub 2009 Dec 15. PubMed PMID: 20009093; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2827502.
2009
- Anema A, Freifeld CC, Druyts E, Montaner JS, Hogg RS, Brownstein JS. An assessment of global Internet-based HIV/AIDS media coverage: implications for United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS' Global Media HIV/AIDS initiative. Int J STD AIDS. 2010 Jan;21(1):26-9. Epub 2009 Oct 15. PubMed PMID: 19833689.
- Keller M, Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS. Automated vocabulary discovery for geo-parsing online epidemic intelligence. BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Nov 24;10:385. PubMed PMID: 19930702; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2787530.
- Dasgupta N, Mandl KD, Brownstein JS. Breaking the news or fueling the epidemic? Temporal association between news media report volume and opioid-related mortality. PLoS One. 2009 Nov 18;4(11):e7758. PubMed PMID: 19924221; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2771898.
- Sasaki A, Hoen AG, Ozonoff A, Suzuki H, Tanabe N, Seki N, Saito R, Brownstein JS. Evidence-based tool for triggering school closures during influenza outbreaks, Japan. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Nov;15(11):1841-3. PubMed PMID: 19891880; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2857248.
- Charland KM, Buckeridge DL, Sturtevant JL, Melton F, Reis BY, Mandl KD, Brownstein JS. Effect of environmental factors on the spatio-temporal patterns of influenza spread. Epidemiol Infect. 2009 Oct;137(10):1377-87. Epub 2009 Mar 19. PubMed PMID: 19296868.
- Brownstein CA, Brownstein JS, Williams DS 3rd, Wicks P, Heywood JA. The power of social networking in medicine. Nat Biotechnol. 2009 Oct;27(10):888-90. PubMed PMID: 19816437.
- Brei B, Brownstein JS, George JE, Pound JM, Miller JA, Daniels TJ, Falco RC, Stafford KC 3rd, Schulze TL, Mather TN, Carroll JF, Fish D. Evaluation of the United States Department Of Agriculture Northeast Area-wide Tick Control Project by meta-analysis. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2009 Aug;9(4):423-30. PubMed PMID: 19650737; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2904192.
- Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Madoff LC. Influenza A (H1N1) virus, 2009--online monitoring. N Engl J Med. 2009 May 21;360(21):2156. Epub 2009 May 7. PubMed PMID: 19423868.
- Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Madoff LC. Digital disease detection--harnessing the Web for public health surveillance. N Engl J Med. 2009 May 21;360(21):2153-5, 2157. Epub 2009 May 7. PubMed PMID: 19423867.
- Keller M, Blench M, Tolentino H, Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Mawudeku A, Eysenbach G, Brownstein JS. Use of unstructured event-based reports for global infectious disease surveillance. Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 May;15(5):689-95. Review. PubMed PMID: 19402953; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2687026.
- Wilson K, Brownstein JS. Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet. CMAJ. 2009 Apr 14;180(8):829-31. Review. PubMed PMID: 19364791; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2665960.
- Wilson K, Brownstein JS. Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet. CMAJ. 2009 Mar 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 19282363.
2008
- Butler SF, Budman SH, Licari A, Cassidy TA, Lioy K, Dickinson J, Brownstein JS, Benneyan JC, Green TC, Katz N. National addictions vigilance intervention and prevention program (NAVIPPRO): a real-time, product-specific, public health surveillance system for monitoring prescription drug abuse. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2008 Dec;17(12):1142-54. PubMed PMID: 18932173.
- Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Reis BY, Mandl KD. Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence and the HealthMap project. PLoS Med. 2008 Jul 8;5(7):e151. PubMed PMID: 18613747; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2443186.
- Brownstein JS, Mandl KD. Pediatric population size is associated with geographic patterns of acute respiratory infections among adults. Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Jul;52(1):63-8. Epub 2008 Mar 28. PubMed PMID: 18374453; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2597284.
- Bourgeois FT, Simons WW, Olson K, Brownstein JS, Mandl KD. Evaluation of influenza prevention in the workplace using a personally controlled health record: randomized controlled trial. J Med Internet Res. 2008 Mar 14;10(1):e5. PubMed PMID: 18343794; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2483848.
- Sebastian R, Skowronski DM, Chong M, Dhaliwal J, Brownstein JS. Age-related trends in the timeliness and prediction of medical visits, hospitalizations and deaths due to pneumonia and influenza, British Columbia, Canada, 1998-2004. Vaccine. 2008 Mar 4;26(10):1397-403. Epub 2007 Dec 26. PubMed PMID: 18280620; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2376828.
- Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Reis BY, Brownstein JS. HealthMap: global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2008 Mar-Apr;15(2):150-7. Epub 2007 Dec 20. PubMed PMID: 18096908; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2274789.
- Brownstein CA, Brownstein JS. Estimating excess mortality in post-invasion Iraq. N Engl J Med. 2008 Jan 31;358(5):445-7. Epub 2008 Jan 9. PubMed PMID: 18184951.
- Anema A, Mills E, Montaner J, Brownstein JS, Cooper C. Efficacy of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis. HIV Med. 2008 Jan;9(1):57-61. Review. PubMed PMID: 18199173.
2007
- Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Reis BY, Mandl KD (2007) HealthMap: Internet-based emerging infectious disease intelligence. In: Institute of Medicine, editor. Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges - Finding Solutions. Washington, DC. pp. 183-204.
- Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC. HealthMap: the development of automated real-time internet surveillance for epidemic intelligence. Euro Surveill. 2007 Nov 29;12(11):E071129.5. PubMed PMID: 18053570.
- Sturtevant JL, Anema A, Brownstein JS. The new International Health Regulations: considerations for global public health surveillance. Disaster Med Public Health Prep. 2007 Nov;1(2):117-21. PubMed PMID: 18388639.
- Brownstein JS, Sordo M, Kohane IS, Mandl KD. The tell-tale heart: population-based surveillance reveals an association of rofecoxib and celecoxib with myocardial infarction. PLoS One. 2007 Sep 5;2(9):e840. PubMed PMID: 17786211; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1950690.
- Wieland SC, Brownstein JS, Berger B, Mandl KD. Automated real time constant-specificity surveillance for disease outbreaks. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2007 Jun 13;7:15. PubMed PMID: 17567912; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1919360.
- Wieland SC, Brownstein JS, Berger B, Mandl KD. Density-equalizing Euclidean minimum spanning trees for the detection of all disease cluster shapes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 May 29;104(22):9404-9. Epub 2007 May 22. PubMed PMID: 17519338; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1890507.
2006
- Brownstein JS, Cassa CA, Kohane IS, Mandl KD. An unsupervised classification method for inferring original case locations from low-resolution disease maps. Int J Health Geogr. 2006 Dec 8;5:56. PubMed PMID: 17156451; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1702538.
- Brownstein JS, Cassa CA, Mandl KD. No place to hide--reverse identification of patients from published maps. N Engl J Med. 2006 Oct 19;355(16):1741-2. PubMed PMID: 17050904.
- Brownstein JS, Wolfe CJ, Mandl KD. Empirical evidence for the effect of airline travel on inter-regional influenza spread in the United States. PLoS Med. 2006 Sep;3(10):e401. PubMed PMID: 16968115; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1564183.
- Kimia A, Brownstein JS, Olson KL, Zak V, Bourgeois FT, Mandl KD. Lumbar puncture ordering and results in the pediatric population: a promising data source for surveillance systems. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Jul;13(7):767-73. Epub 2006 May 11. PubMed PMID: 16690814.
- Bourgeois FT, Olson KL, Brownstein JS, McAdam AJ, Mandl KD. Validation of syndromic surveillance for respiratory infections. Ann Emerg Med. 2006 Mar;47(3):265.e1. Epub 2006 Jan 18. PubMed PMID: 16492494.
- Diuk-Wasser MA, Gatewood AG, Cortinas MR, Yaremych-Hamer S, Tsao J, Kitron U, Hickling G, Brownstein JS, Walker E, Piesman J, Fish D. Spatiotemporal patterns of host-seeking Ixodes scapularis nymphs (Acari: Ixodidae) in the United States. J Med Entomol. 2006 Mar;43(2):166-76. PubMed PMID: 16619595.
- Brownstein JS, Mandl KD. Reengineering real time outbreak detection systems for influenza epidemic monitoring. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006:866. PubMed PMID: 17238486; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1839573.
2005
- Brownstein JS, Skelly DK, Holford TR, Fish D. Forest fragmentation predicts local scale heterogeneity of Lyme disease risk. Oecologia. 2005 Dec;146(3):469-75. Epub 2005 Oct 27. PubMed PMID: 16187106.
- Brownstein JS, Kleinman KP, Mandl KD. Identifying pediatric age groups for influenza vaccination using a real-time regional surveillance system. Am J Epidemiol. 2005 Oct 1;162(7):686-93. Epub 2005 Aug 17. PubMed PMID: 16107568; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1266301.
- Reis BY, Brownstein JS, Mandl KD. Running outside the baseline: impact of the 2004 Major League Baseball postseason on emergency department use. Ann Emerg Med. 2005 Oct;46(4):386-7. PubMed PMID: 16183403.
- Brownstein JS, Holford TR, Fish D. Effect of Climate Change on Lyme Disease Risk in North America. Ecohealth. 2005 Mar;2(1):38-46. PubMed PMID: 19008966; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2582486.
- Brownstein JS, Cassa CA, Kohane IS, Mandl KD. Reverse geocoding: concerns about patient confidentiality in the display of geospatial health data. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005:905. PubMed PMID: 16779192; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1560748.
2004
- Derdáková M, Dudiòák V, Brei B, Brownstein JS, Schwartz I, Fish D. Interaction and transmission of two Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strains in a tick-rodent maintenance system. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004 Nov;70(11):6783-8. PubMed PMID: 15528545; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC525125.
- Madhav NK, Brownstein JS, Tsao JI, Fish D. A dispersal model for the range expansion of blacklegged tick (Acari: Ixodidae). J Med Entomol. 2004 Sep;41(5):842-52. PubMed PMID: 15535611.
- Brownstein JS, Holford TR, Fish D. Enhancing West Nile virus surveillance, United States. Emerg Infect Dis. 2004 Jun;10(6):1129-33. PubMed PMID: 15207069.
2003
- Brownstein JS, Hett E, O'Neill SL. The potential of virulent Wolbachia to modulate disease transmission by insects. J Invertebr Pathol. 2003 Sep;84(1):24-9. PubMed PMID: 13678709.
- Brownstein JS, Holford TR, Fish D. A climate-based model predicts the spatial distribution of the Lyme disease vector Ixodes scapularis in the United States. Environ Health Perspect. 2003 Jul;111(9):1152-7. PubMed PMID: 12842766; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1241567.
- Brownstein JS, Rosen H, Purdy D, Miller JR, Merlino M, Mostashari F, Fish D. Spatial analysis of West Nile virus: rapid risk assessment of an introduced vector-borne zoonosis. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2002 Fall;2(3):157-64. Erratum in: Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2003 Fall;3(3):155. PubMed PMID: 12737545.
Presentations
- MicrobeWorld Video - Infectious Disease in a Mobile Age, Amy Sonricker speaking at the Marian Koshland Science Museum in Washington, D.C., October 2009
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Google Tech Talks August 19, 2008
HealthMap: Digital Disease Detection. Speakers: John Brownstein PhD, Clark Freifeld, Mikaela Keller PhD
- Georeferencing Workshop at Harvard, March 21st 2008. View John's presentation in video format.
- Forum One event Global Health and the Internet: How Can We Save More Lives? on Tuesday, November 13th 2007 (slides).
- Institute of Medicine's workshop on Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection December 12 - 13, 2006. View slides from John's presentation, in PDF format.
Awards
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
2011
- Lindsey Konkel (November 23, 2011). Traffic pollution may be linked to diabetes risk. Reuters.
- Amy Westervelt (October 10, 2011). Two new reasons to worry about air pollution: obesity and diabetes. Forbes.
- Nicholas Bakalar (September 19, 2011). Prevention: Flu Shots’ Benefits Seen in Hospital Study. New York Times.
- John Woods (September 19, 2011). Study suggests flu shots keep kids out of hospital. CTV News.
- Shari Roan (September 19, 2011). Flu vaccine for toddlers has big impact LA Times. "Booster Shots" health blog.
- (September 19, 2011). Giving flu vaccine to tots cuts ER visits. Reuters.
- Helen Branswell (September 19, 2011). An ounce of prevention: study suggests flu shots keep little kids out of emerg. Canadian Press
- (September 19, 2011). U.S. Flu Shot Policy Shields More Kids Than Canada's Program, Study Finds. U.S. News (via HealthDay News)
- Sharon Kirkey (September 19, 2011). Flu shots for preschoolers slash hospital visits: Study Montreal Gazette (via PostMedia)
- Steven Fox (September 19, 2011). Expanding Flu Shots to Older Kids Cuts Flu ER Visits. MedScape.
2010
- Genevra Pittman (June 17, 2011). Teens, young adults may drive flu epidemics: study. Reuters.
- 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.
2009 - 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
