Topic: Mortality displacement

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Mortality Displacement: Sixty Years of Debate and Consequences

David Jones

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology

Sep 9, 2026

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.