Dollars for Profs
Dig Into University Researchers' Outside Income and Conflicts of Interest
Published Dec. 6, 2019
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Conflict of Interest
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John Brownstein
Boston Children's Hospital, Department: Na
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Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. and Epidemico, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
Payment for services (e.g., consulting fees, honoraria, paid authorship)
Consulting and equity. Dr. Brownstein formerly had (b)(4) ownership interest in a Company, Epidemico, which was purchased by Booz Allen. Dr. Brownstein continues to consult for Epidemico, which is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Booz Allen. Additionally, as part of the purchase agreement, Dr. Brownstein may receive buy-out options of (b)(4) in 2016 and (b)(4) contingent on the Company reaching certain milestones. Dr. Brownstein helped design and continues to develop HealthMap.org, a social web and mobile platform, which is publicly accessible through a website and mobile app and which monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, visualizes and disseminates online information about emerging diseases, facilitating early detection of global public health threats. Booz Allen is a company provides a broad range of consulting and product services. Epidemico is a subsidiary of Booz Allen and is a company that provides deep intelligence on healthcare products and services. Specifically, Epidemico combines natural language processing, crowdsourcing and public health expertise to provide real-time insights on diseases, drugs, vaccines, and devices for life science companies. The Company will use HealthMap as one of the tools to provide its services. The purpose of the subject research is to use new social data sources to identify, validate and research food borne outbreaks As part of this research, Dr. Brownstein will use data that was collected by HealthMap. Dr. Brownstein, as the PI of the study site will be involved in all aspects of the research. As such, the outcome of the research has the potential to indirectly affect the Company.
An Approach for Estimating Foodborne Illnesses and Assessing Risk Factors
PROJECT NARRATIVE Although there have been several regulations and initiatives to improve food safety and surveillance of foodborne diseases, foodborne illnesses continue to remain a major public health problem in the United States. Our ability to respond and limit the spread of foodborne disease outbreaks and to improve food safety depends on our ability to properly understand the extent of foodborne illnesses at the local and national level. Our goal is therefore to develop and make available a new approach that allows for the assessment, validation and integration of multiple data sources for monitoring and estimating the extent of foodborne illnesses at the local and national scale. �
Filed on June 02, 2015.
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John Brownstein filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Brownstein | Children's Hospital Corporation | Conflict of Interest | Epidemico | $300,000 - $349,999 |
Notes: When a more specific filing date is not available for an individual financial disclosure or conflict of interest form, we use the year the form was filed. If the year was not disclosed, we report the range of years covered by our public records requests. In a few cases, a start date was provided instead of a filing date. In those cases, we use the start date instead.
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