Britta Lassmann, MD

Research Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

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.

Publications

  • Published 10/18/2023

    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.

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  • Published 5/4/2023

    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.

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  • Published 4/13/2023

    Cori A, Lassmann B, Nouvellet P. Data needs for better surveillance and response to infectious disease threats. Epidemics. 2023 Jun; 43:100685. PMID: 37076350.

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  • Published 5/1/2022

    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.

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  • Published 4/16/2021

    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.

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Education

  • University of Vienna, MD

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