Who we are

Jonathan Patz

Co-editor, EcoHealth Association President
Global Environmental Health Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies & Dept. Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

Jonathan Patz MD, MPH, is Professor and Director, Global Environmental Health, in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the Department of Population Health Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and his Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; he is board-certified in both Occupational/Environmental Medicine and in Family Medicine. In 2002, he was appointed Convening Lead Author for the United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and in 1998 was asked to Co-chair the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, Health Sector expert panel. He has been lead author on four United Nations assessment reports, including the Second and Third Assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and is a nominee for the National Academy of Sciences, NRC Committee on Research Priorities in Earth Science and Public Health . He is Co-editor of the textbook, Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective (2001) and served as Co-editor-in-chief for the journal Global Change and Human Health . He has served as principal investigator for the largest US multi-institutional study on climate change health risks and has briefed the US Congress, Administration, and federal agency leaders. His areas of research investigation include effects of climate change on air pollution and water- & vector-borne diseases, as well as the link between deforestation and resurgent diseases in the Amazon (with >75 publications).