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David Scales, John Brownstein (2012) The humanitarian impact of European laws targeting Google News
Rumi Chunara, Vina Chhaya, Sunetra Bane, Sumiko R. Mekaru, Emily H. Chan, Clark C. Freifeld, John S. Brownstein (2012) Online reporting for malaria surveillance using micro-monetary incentives, in urban India 2010-2011. Malaria Journal.
Rumi Chunara, Jason R. Andrews, John S. Brownstein (2012) Social and News Media Enable Estimation of Epidemiological Patterns Early in the 2010 Haitian Cholera Outbreak. Am J Trop Med Hyg
John Brownstein. August 18, 2011. Using social media for disease surveillance. CNN.
Clark C. Freifeld, Rumi Chunara, Sumiko R. Mekaru, Emily H. Chan, Taha Kass-Hout, Anahi Ayala Iacucci, John S. Brownstein (2010) Participatory Epidemiology: Use of Mobile Phones for Community-Based Health Reporting. PloS Medicine.
Emily H. Chan, Timothy F. Brewer, Lawrence C. Madoff, Marjorie P. Pollack, Amy L. Sonricker, Mikaela Keller, Clark C. Freifeld, Michael Blench, Abla Mawudeku, John S. Brownstein (2010) Global capacity for emerging infectious disease detection. PNAS
John S. Brownstein, Ph.D., Clark C. Freifeld BS, Emily H. Chan, MS, Mikaela Keller, Ph.D., Amy L. Sonricker MPH, Sumiko R. Mekaru DVM MPVM, and David L. Buckeridge, M.D., Ph.D (2010) Information Technology and Global Surveillance of Cases of 2009 H1N1 Influenza. New England Journal of Medicine
Kamran Khan MD MPH, Clark C. Freifeld BS, Jun Wang MSc, Sumiko R. Mekaru DVM MPVM, David Kossowsky BA, Amy L. Sonricker MPH, Wei Hu BSc, Jennifer Sears BSc, Angie Chan MPA, John S. Brownstein PhD (2010) Preparing for infectious disease threats at mass gatherings: the case of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. CMAJ.
Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, and Madoff LC (2009) Influenza A (H1N1) Virus, 2009 - Online Monitoring. New England Journal of Medicine
Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, and Madoff LC (2009) Digital Disease Detection — Harnessing the Web for Public Health Surveillance. New England Journal of Medicine
Keller M, Freifeld CC, Brownstein JS (2009) Automated vocabulary discovery for geo-parsing online epidemic intelligence. BMC Bioinformatics, v.10; 2009.
Keller M, Blench M, Tolentino H, Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Mawudeku A, Eysenbach G, Brownstein JS (2009) Use of Unstructured Event-Based Reports for Global Infectious Disease Surveillance.
Wilson K, Brownstein JS (2009) Early detection of disease outbreaks using the Internet. Canadian Medical Association Journal. Mar 12.
Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC, Reis BY, Mandl KD (2008) Surveillance Sans Frontières: Internet-Based Emerging Infectious Disease Intelligence and the HealthMap Project. PLoS Med 5(7): e151
Freifeld CC, Mandl KD, Reis BY, Brownstein JS (2007) HealthMap: Global infectious disease monitoring through automated classification and visualization of Internet media reports. J Am Med Inform Assoc.
Brownstein JS, Freifeld CC (2007) HealthMap: the development of automated real-time internet surveillance for epidemic intelligence. Euro Surveill 12: E071129 071125.
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.