David Shumway Jones
Professor in the Department of Epidemiology
Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Departments
Department of Epidemiology
Other Positions
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine
History of Science -Sr. Faculty, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Harvard College Professor
History of Science -Other Academic, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Affiliate of the Department of History
History -Other Academic, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Biography
Trained in psychiatry and history of science, David Jones is the Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University. His research has focused on the causes and meanings of health inequalities (Rationalizing Epidemics: Meanings and Uses of American Indian Mortality since 1600) and the history of decision making in cardiac therapeutics (Broken Hearts: The Tangled History of Cardiac Care). He is currently at work on four other histories, of the evolution of coronary artery surgery, of heart disease and cardiac therapeutics in India, of the threat of air pollution to health in India, and of the history of air pollution research in the United States. His teaching at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School explores the history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine.
Awards and Honors
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Donald O’Hara Faculty Prize for Excellence in Teaching, 2010
Harvard Medical School -
MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, 2007
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
