Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is a Professor & Director of Global Environmental Health at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He Co-chaired the health expert panel of the US National Assessment on Climate Change and was a Convening Lead Author for the United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. For the past fifteen years, Patz has been a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC)--the organization that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Patz is President of the International Association for Ecology and Health, and has written over 85 peer-reviewed papers and a textbook addressing the health effects of global environmental change. He has been invited to brief both houses of Congress, served on several scientific committees of the National Academy of Sciences, and currently serves on science advisory boards for both CDC and EPA. In addition to his sharing in the 2007 Nobel Prize, Patz received an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows Award in 2005, shared the Zayed International Prize for the Environment in 2006, and earned the distinction of becoming a UW-Madison Romnes Faculty Fellow in 2009. He has earned medical board certification in both Occupational/Environmental Medicine and Family Medicine and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University (1987) and his Master of Public Health degree (1992) from Johns Hopkins University.

Academy Evenings Presentation:

Did you miss Jonathan Patz's November 15, 2009, presentation Heat Waves and High Water: Climate Change, Public Health, and the 2050 Wisconsin Landscape? You can watch it online or purchase the DVD from our Wisconsin Academy store

Suggested Reading:

"Ecology for Public Health," The Quarterly, 2009

"Connecting Global Warming and Health," Wisconsin Insights, 2009

For Further Inquiry:

PBS NewsHour segment: "As Global Temperatures Rise, So Too Do Health Risks"

The Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment