Jared Hawkins

Jared Hawkins is an academic and informatics leader with dual roles as a faculty member in the Computational Health Informatics Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Instructor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He also serves as the Director of Informatics in the Innovation Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and holds industry roles as Chief Technology & Product Officer at Logisticare and Circulation.

His research focuses on leveraging 'digital phenotypes'—real-time health data from social media, wearables, and online communities—to monitor population health trends. Key areas include foodborne illness surveillance, autism, asthma, febrile illness dynamics, and patient experience analysis. Hawkins holds a BSc from SUNY New Paltz, a PhD in Immunology from Tufts Medical School, and an MMSc in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard Medical School.

His work emphasizes translating digital health innovations into actionable public health strategies. Recent projects include the Feverprints study (crowdsourced temperature data) and Twitter-based food poisoning detection systems. Articles frequently explore leveraging non-traditional data streams for disease monitoring and healthcare equity.

Despite extensive publications in journals like JMIR Mental Health and Preventive Medicine, no scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided text. His advisory roles span academic, clinical, and industry domains, including non-emergency medical transportation platforms.

Key affiliations include:

• Computational Epidemiology Lab (Boston Children’s Hospital)
• Innovation Program (Boston Children’s Hospital)
• Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Department

He actively collaborates with institutions like the MIT Media Lab and the National Institutes of Health on health informatics initiatives.