Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, was inaugural director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and the John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment For 15 years, Patz served as a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC) and authored more than 100 peer reviewed papers on health effects of global change. He also co-chaired the health expert panel of the U.S. National Assessment on Climate Change, a report mandated by the U.S. Congress. Patz is double board-certified, earning medical boards 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. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
