Speaker

John Brownstein, PhD

John Brownstein, Ph.D is a Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and the Chief Innovation Officer of Boston Children’s Hospital. He also directs the Computational Epidemiology Lab and the Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator both at Boston Children’s. He was trained as an epidemiologist at Yale University. Overall, his work aims to have translation impact on the surveillance, control and prevention of disease. He has been at the forefront of the development and application of AI, data mining and citizen science to public health. His efforts including the platforms Vaccines.g