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David Shumway Jones is the A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University, holding a joint appointment between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). He also serves as a Harvard College Professor and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His roles include leading the Arts and Humanities Initiative at HMS and affiliating with the Department of History at FAS.
Education: AB in History and Science from Harvard College (1993), PhD in History of Science and MD from Harvard University (2001). Postgraduate training included pediatrics internship at Children’s Hospital, psychiatry residency at Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean Hospital, and staff psychiatrist at Cambridge Hospital’s Psychiatric Emergency Service.
Research focuses on Science & Race, Global Health, History of Medicine, and Medical Humanities. Notable projects include histories of cardiac care, HIV, and the impact of air pollution on health in India and the U.S. He critiques racial bias in medical algorithms and advocates for ethical science communication.
His articles analyze topics like heat-related mortality, racial disparities in medical research, and historical pandemic responses. Recent work emphasizes ethical frameworks for genetic ancestry studies and climate change’s health impacts.
Awards include the MacVicar Faculty Fellow (MIT, 2009), Donald O’Hara Teaching Prize (HMS, 2010), and Harvard’s Everett Mendelsohn Mentoring Award (2018). He directs grants from NIH, NEH, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, focusing on topics like coronary artery surgery history and health policy.
Labs/Teams: Active in the Paul Farmer Collaborative and leads research on transnational health issues through Harvard’s Global Health Delivery and Bioethics programs.
