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
Children's Hospital Corporation, Department: Na
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Epidemico
Other : Founder(b)(4)EquityNon-public
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. Epidemico is a health informatics company providing 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 explore an informatics approach to investigating the predictive relationships between climate and a number of infectious diseases, using, in part, HealthMap. Dr. Brownstein, as the PI of the study will be involved in all aspects of the research. As such, the outcome of the research has the potential to indirectly affect the Company.
A Platform for Modeling the Global Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease
PROJECT NARRATIVE While the inevitability of global climate change has led to speculation regarding its effects on the incidence and distribution of infectious disease risk, no study has systematically examined the impact of climate change on the global burden of infectious diseases. We propose to couple new disease surveillance technologies and advanced statistical methodologies with global climate data in order to broadly characterize and analyze the global effects of climate on infectious disease risk and burden. Our goal is to project the likely changes in global disease risk due to climate change and to inform ongoing surveillance and impact assessments efforts of international organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the Red Cross.
Filed on February 14, 2014.
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John Brownstein filed other conflict of interest disclosures with the NIH:
| Name | Institution | Type | Company | Disclosed Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Brownstein | Boston Children's Hospital | Conflict of Interest | Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. and Epidemico, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. | $300,000 - $349,999 |
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