Yulin Hswen, ScD, MPH
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Title(s) | Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics |
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School | School of Medicine |
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Address | 490 Illinois Street San Francisco CA 94158
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Biography Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | ScD | 2019 | Social and Computational Epidemiology | Harvard Medical School | Post-Doctoral Fellow | 2019 | Computational Epidemiology | Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) , France | Visiting Assistant Professor | 2020 | Behavioral Economics |
Harvard Medical School | 2019 | | Graduate Research Award | The Embassy of France and The French National Research | 2019 | | Make Our Planet Great Again, President Macron Fellowship for Research in Planetary Sciences | International Chapter of Philanthropic Educational Organization | 2018 | | Philanthropic Educational Organization Scholar Award | Harvard University, the Committee of General Scholarships | 2018 | | Kennedy Fellowship | Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences | 2017 | | 1st Place Social Entrepreneurship Award - Venture Capital Innovation Challenge | The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs | 2017 | | Dissertation Research Award | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health | 2017 | | The Harvey V. Fineberg Fellowship in Cancer Prevention | The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CHIR) | 2015 | | Doctoral Research Award | The University of Cambridge | 2014 | | Cambridge International Scholarship Scheme, Full Tuition and Stipend Scholarship - Declined | The University of Oxford | 2014 | | Clarendon Scholarship, Full Tuition and Stipend Scholarship - Declined |
Overview Dr. Hswen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Bakar Computational Health Institute at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Hswen graduated with a Doctoral Degree in social and computational epidemiology at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health where she focused on leveraging online big data to uncover social patterns of disease and to inform the development of interventions to improve the health and well-being of the most marginalized subgroups of the population.
Dr. Hswen is in the pursuit of detecting uncomfortable truths. Dr. Hswen’s current research seeks to identify authentic attitudes, feelings, and beliefs that influence population behavior and health. Through the collection of unconventional and underground online social networks, Dr. Hswen captures unfiltered conversations to further understand the connections between social experiences and health.
Dr. Hswen is the founder and Principal Investigator of Covidseeker.com a platform that captures geospatial temporal data from Smartphones to better study the risks between human mobility and infectious disease. The purpose of Covidseeker is to develop a digital mobility database that can be used by researchers, public health officials, and policymakers to identify real-time hotspots of SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
Dr. Hswen’s research has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, The American Journal of Public Health, Preventive Medicine, Nature npj Digital Medicine, Nature Human Behavior and Nature Scientific Data and her work has been featured in CBC News, Bloomberg News, Nature Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Hswen has served as Deputy Editor of the Harvard Public Health Review since 2016 and was previously a Kennedy Fellow at Harvard University and a Chateaubriand STEM Fellow, the Embassy of France, and The French National Research Agency for researchers to study the environment and health in France. Before joining UCSF, Dr. Hswen was a visiting Assistant Professor at Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) where she conducted research in behavioral economics in relation to the promotion of public health interventions. Dr. Hswen is interested in the application of behavioral economic theories to enhance the acceptance and adherence of healthy behaviors and the willingness to share information.
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Early detection of COVID-19 in China and the USA: summary of the implementation of a digital decision-support and disease surveillance tool. BMJ Open. 2020 12 10; 10(12):e041004.
Hswen Y, Brownstein JS, Xu X, Yom-Tov E. PMID: 33303453.
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Person-based machine learning: Accounting for patient experience to explain the nature of schizophrenia. Schizophr Res. 2020 Nov 20.
Naslund JA, Hswen Y. PMID: 33229226.
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Geographic access to United States SARS-CoV-2 testing sites highlights healthcare disparities and may bias transmission estimates. J Travel Med. 2020 Nov 09; 27(7).
Rader B, Astley CM, Sy KTL, Sewalk K, Hswen Y, Brownstein JS, Kraemer MUG. PMID: 32412064.
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Framework for a Community Health Observing System for the Gulf of Mexico Region: Preparing for Future Disasters. Front Public Health. 2020; 8:578463.
Sandifer P, Knapp L, Lichtveld M, Manley R, Abramson D, Caffey R, Cochran D, Collier T, Ebi K, Engel L, Farrington J, Finucane M, Hale C, Halpern D, Harville E, Hart L, Hswen Y, Kirkpatrick B, McEwen B, Morris G, Orbach R, Palinkas L, Partyka M, Porter D, Prather AA, Rowles T, Scott G, Seeman T, Solo-Gabriele H, Svendsen E, Tincher T, Trtanj J, Walker AH, Yehuda R, Yip F, Yoskowitz D, Singer B. PMID: 33178663.
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Factors Associated With US Adults' Likelihood of Accepting COVID-19 Vaccination. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 10 01; 3(10):e2025594.
Kreps S, Prasad S, Brownstein JS, Hswen Y, Garibaldi BT, Zhang B, Kriner DL. PMID: 33079199.
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Online negative sentiment towards Mexicans and Hispanics and impact on mental well-being: A time-series analysis of social media data during the 2016 United States presidential election. Heliyon. 2020 Sep; 6(9):e04910.
Hswen Y, Qin Q, Williams DR, Viswanath K, Subramanian SV, Brownstein JS. PMID: 33005781.
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient Experiences in the United States: 4-Year Content Analysis of Twitter. J Med Internet Res. 2020 08 21; 22(8):e17048.
Hswen Y, Hawkins JB, Sewalk K, Tuli G, Williams DR, Viswanath K, Subramanian SV, Brownstein JS. PMID: 32821062.
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Investigation of Geographic and Macrolevel Variations in LGBTQ Patient Experiences: Longitudinal Social Media Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2020 07 31; 22(7):e17087.
Hswen Y, Zhang A, Sewalk KC, Tuli G, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 33137713.
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Digital Surveillance for Monitoring Environmental Health Threats: A Case Study Capturing Public Opinion from Twitter about the 2019 Chennai Water Crisis. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 07 14; 17(14).
Xiong J, Hswen Y, Naslund JA. PMID: 32674441.
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Evaluation of Volume of News Reporting and Opioid-Related Deaths in the United States: Comparative Analysis Study of Geographic and Socioeconomic Differences. J Med Internet Res. 2020 07 10; 22(7):e17693.
Hswen Y, Zhang A, Freifeld C, Brownstein JS. PMID: 32673248.
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The relationship between Jim Crow laws and social capital from 1997-2014: A 3-level multilevel hierarchical analysis across time, county and state. Soc Sci Med. 2020 10; 262:113142.
Hswen Y, Qin Q, Williams DR, Viswanath K, Brownstein JS, Subramanian SV. PMID: 32893046.
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Mapping global variation in human mobility. Nat Hum Behav. 2020 08; 4(8):800-810.
Kraemer MUG, Sadilek A, Zhang Q, Marchal NA, Tuli G, Cohn EL, Hswen Y, Perkins TA, Smith DL, Reiner RC, Brownstein JS. PMID: 32424257.
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Leveraging black-market street buprenorphine pricing to increase capacity to treat opioid addiction, 2010-2018. Prev Med. 2020 08; 137:106105.
Hswen Y, Zhang A, Brownstein JS. PMID: 32353575.
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Use of social media to assess the impact of equitable state policies on LGBTQ patient experiences: An exploratory study. Healthc (Amst). 2020 Jun; 8(2):100410.
Hswen Y, Zhang A, Sewalk K, Tuli G, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 32241681.
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Epidemiological data from the COVID-19 outbreak, real-time case information. Sci Data. 2020 03 24; 7(1):106.
Xu B, Gutierrez B, Mekaru S, Sewalk K, Goodwin L, Loskill A, Cohn EL, Hswen Y, Hill SC, Cobo MM, Zarebski AE, Li S, Wu CH, Hulland E, Morgan JD, Wang L, O'Brien K, Scarpino SV, Brownstein JS, Pybus OG, Pigott DM, Kraemer MUG. PMID: 32210236.
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Lymelight: forecasting Lyme disease risk using web search data. NPJ Digit Med. 2020; 3:16.
Sadilek A, Hswen Y, Bavadekar S, Shekel T, Brownstein JS, Gabrilovich E. PMID: 32047861.
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Real-Time Digital Surveillance of Vaping-Induced Pulmonary Disease. N Engl J Med. 2019 10 31; 381(18):1778-1780.
Hswen Y, Brownstein JS. PMID: 31539466.
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Detecting reports of unsafe foods in consumer product reviews. JAMIA Open. 2019 Oct; 2(3):330-338.
Maharana A, Cai K, Hellerstein J, Hswen Y, Munsell M, Staneva V, Verma M, Vint C, Wijaya D, Nsoesie EO. PMID: 31984365.
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Social capital and physical health: An updated review of the literature for 2007-2018. Soc Sci Med. 2019 09; 236:112360.
Rodgers J, Valuev AV, Hswen Y, Subramanian SV. PMID: 31352315.
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Comparing Three Methods for Reducing Psychotropic Use in Older Demented Spanish Care Home Residents. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 07; 67(7):1444-1453.
Weeks WB, Mishra MK, Curto D, Petersen CL, Cano P, Hswen Y, Serra SV, Elwyn G, Godfrey MM, Soro PS, Tomás JF. PMID: 30848834.
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Using Twitter to Detect Psychological Characteristics of Self-Identified Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Feasibility Study. JMIR Mhealth Uhealth. 2019 02 12; 7(2):e12264.
Hswen Y, Gopaluni A, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 30747718.
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Feasibility of using social media to monitor outdoor air pollution in London, England. Prev Med. 2019 04; 121:86-93.
Hswen Y, Qin Q, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 30742873.
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Monitoring Online Discussions About Suicide Among Twitter Users With Schizophrenia: Exploratory Study. JMIR Ment Health. 2018 Dec 13; 5(4):e11483.
Hswen Y, Naslund JA, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 30545811.
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Using Twitter to Examine Web-Based Patient Experience Sentiments in the United States: Longitudinal Study. J Med Internet Res. 2018 10 12; 20(10):e10043.
Sewalk KC, Tuli G, Hswen Y, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 30314959.
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Online Communication about Depression and Anxiety among Twitter Users with Schizophrenia: Preliminary Findings to Inform a Digital Phenotype Using Social Media. Psychiatr Q. 2018 09; 89(3):569-580.
Hswen Y, Naslund JA, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 29327218.
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Investigating inequities in hospital care among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals using social media. Soc Sci Med. 2018 10; 215:92-97.
Hswen Y, Sewalk KC, Alsentzer E, Tuli G, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 30219749.
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A Preliminary Evaluation of a School-Based Media Education and Reduction Intervention. J Prim Prev. 2018 06; 39(3):229-245.
Bickham DS, Hswen Y, Slaby RG, Rich M. PMID: 29721652.
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County-level assessment of United States kindergarten vaccination rates for measles mumps rubella (MMR) for the 2014-2015 school year. Vaccine. 2017 11 07; 35(47):6444-6450.
Kluberg SA, McGinnis DP, Hswen Y, Majumder MS, Santillana M, Brownstein JS. PMID: 29037574.
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Exploring online communication about cigarette smoking among Twitter users who self-identify as having schizophrenia. Psychiatry Res. 2017 11; 257:479-484.
Hswen Y, Naslund JA, Chandrashekar P, Siegel R, Brownstein JS, Hawkins JB. PMID: 28841509.
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Use of a Digital Health Application for Influenza Surveillance in China. Am J Public Health. 2017 07; 107(7):1130-1136.
Hswen Y, Brownstein JS, Liu J, Hawkins JB. PMID: 28520492.
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Vaccine compliance and the 2016 Arkansas mumps outbreak. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 04; 17(4):361-362.
Majumder MS, Nguyen CM, Cohn EL, Hswen Y, Mekaru SR, Brownstein JS. PMID: 28346168.
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Improving Physician Recommendations for Human Papillomavirus Vaccination: The Role of Professional Organizations. Sex Transm Dis. 2017 01; 44(1):42-47.
Hswen Y, Gilkey MB, Rimer BK, Brewer NT. PMID: 27898573.
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Media use and depression: exposure, household rules, and symptoms among young adolescents in the USA. Int J Public Health. 2015 Feb; 60(2):147-55.
Bickham DS, Hswen Y, Rich M. PMID: 25586816.
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Differences in media access and use between rural Native American and White children. Rural Remote Health. 2014; 14(3):2922.
Hswen Y, Naslund JA, Bickham DS. PMID: 25169711.
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Feasibility of an Online and Mobile Videogame Curriculum for Teaching Children Safe and Healthy Cellphone and Internet Behaviors. Games Health J. 2014 Aug; 3(4):252-9.
Hswen Y, Rubenzahl L, Bickham DS. PMID: 26192373.
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VIRTUAL AVATARS, GAMING, AND SOCIAL MEDIA: DESIGNING A MOBILE HEALTH APP TO HELP CHILDREN CHOOSE HEALTHIER FOOD OPTIONS. J Mob Technol Med. 2013; 2(2):8-14.
Hswen Y, Murti V, Vormawor AA, Bhattacharjee R, Naslund JA. PMID: 25419244.
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