Britta Lassmann, MD
Research Associate Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Infectious Diseases

MD, University of Vienna



Britta Lassmann, MD, Medicine/Infectious Diseases, is an infectious diseases physician and healthcare technology innovator with expertise in building applications at the intersection of clinical care, public health, analytics and technology. Her research also integrates advanced analytical methods and artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize disease surveillance and outbreak response. She is a co-founder of BEACON, the Biothreats, Emergence, Analysis and Communications Network, a first-of-its-kind, open-source global surveillance platform built to detect emerging infectious diseases in near real time, worldwide. The platform merges the power of AI with a global network of human subject matter experts to provide fast, verified alerts to potential outbreaks. BEACON is housed at BU’s Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases.


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  1. Bhatia S, Parag KV, Wardle J, Nash RK, Imai N, Elsland SLV, Lassmann B, Brownstein JS, Desai A, Herringer M, Sewalk K, Loeb SC, Ramatowski J, Cuomo-Dannenburg G, Jauneikaite E, Unwin HJT, Riley S, Ferguson N, Donnelly CA, Cori A, Nouvellet P. Retrospective evaluation of real-time estimates of global COVID-19 transmission trends and mortality forecasts. PLoS One. 2023; 18(10):e0286199. PMID: 37851661; PMCID: PMC10584190; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0286199;
     
  2. Bhatia S, Imai N, Watson OJ, Abbood A, Abdelmalik P, Cornelissen T, Ghozzi S, Lassmann B, Nagesh R, Ragonnet-Cronin ML, Schnitzler JC, Kraemer MU, Cauchemez S, Nouvellet P, Cori A. Lessons from COVID-19 for rescalable data collection. Lancet Infect Dis. 2023 Sep; 23(9):e383-e388. PMID: 37150186; PMCID: PMC10159580; DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00121-4;
     
  3. Cori A, Lassmann B, Nouvellet P. Data needs for better surveillance and response to infectious disease threats. Epidemics. 2023 Jun; 43:100685. PMID: 37076350; PMCID: PMC10101508; DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2023.100685;
     
  4. Desai AN, Mohareb AM, Elkarsany MM, Desalegn H, Madoff LC, Lassmann B. Viral Hepatitis E Outbreaks in Refugees and Internally Displaced Populations, sub-Saharan Africa, 2010-2020. Emerg Infect Dis. 2022 May; 28(5):1074-1076. PMID: 35447070
     
  5. Desai A, Nouvellet P, Bhatia S, Cori A, Lassmann B. Data journalism and the COVID-19 pandemic: opportunities and challenges. Lancet Digit Health. 2021 Oct; 3(10):e619-e621. PMID: 34556290
     
  6. Bhatia S, Lassmann B, Cohn E, Desai AN, Carrion M, Kraemer MUG, Herringer M, Brownstein J, Madoff L, Cori A, Nouvellet P. Using digital surveillance tools for near real-time mapping of the risk of infectious disease spread. NPJ Digit Med. 2021 Apr 16; 4(1):73. PMID: 33864009
     
  7. Huttner A, Bricheux A, Buurmeijer-van Dijk CJM, Harvey M, Holmes A, Lassmann B, Lavergne V, Mailles A, Mendelson M, Muller N, Sanguinetti M, Sears C, Skevaki C, Syed U, Thomas S, Swartz TH. Joint ESCMID, FEMS, IDSA, ISID and SSI position paper on the fair handling of career breaks among physicians and scientists when assessing eligibility for early-career awards. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2021 Feb 18. PMID: 33609786
     
  8. Tarnas MC, Desai AN, Lassmann B, Abbara A. Increase in vector-borne disease reporting affecting humans and animals in Syria and neighboring countries after the onset of conflict: A ProMED analysis 2003-2018. Int J Infect Dis. 2021 Jan; 102:103-109. PMID: 33002614
     
  9. Desai AN, Ramatowski JW, Marano N, Madoff LC, Lassmann B. Infectious disease outbreaks among forcibly displaced persons: an analysis of ProMED reports 1996-2016. Confl Health. 2020; 14:49. PMID: 32704307
     
  10. Desai AN, Seshasayee SM, Majumder MS, Lassmann B, Madoff LC, Cohn EL, Brownstein JS. Tuberculosis and foreign-born populations in the United States: A mixed methods pilot study of media reporting and political identification. PLoS One. 2020; 15(4):e0230967. PMID: 32315312
     
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