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Mortality Displacement: Sixty Years of Debate and Consequences
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.
Multi-resolution Multi-task Gaussian Processes: London air pollution
Poor air quality in cities is a significant threat to health and life expectancy, with over 80% of people living in urban areas exposed to air quality levels that exceed World Health Organisation limits. In this session, I present a multi-resolution multi-task framework that handles evidence integration under varying spatio-temporal sampling resolution and noise levels. We have developed both shallow Gaussian Process (GP) mixture models and deep GP constructions that naturally handle this evidence integration, as well as biases in the mean. These models underpin our work at the Alan Turing Institute towards providing spatio-temporal forecasts of air pollution across London. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our framework on both synthetic examples and applications on London air quality. For further information go to: https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-projects/london-air-quality. Collaborators: Oliver Hamelijnck, Theodoros Damoulas, Kangrui Wang and Mark Girolami.