Mortality Displacement: Sixty Years of Debate and Consequences
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
13:00 America/New_York
David Jones
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology
Abstract
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology seminar by David Jones, MD, PhD (Chair, Department of the History of Science, Harvard; Professor of Epidemiology) on the sixty-year history of 'mortality displacement' — the contested idea that pollution crises kill people already close to death — and its implications for policy.