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Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and
Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he
directs a university-wide initiative on Global Environmental Health. He is an
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences
at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and also an Affiliate
Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
He has served as Co-chair for the health sector expert panel of the US National
Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, Convening Lead Author for the
United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, and lead author on
several United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports
and WHO monographs on climate change. He is Co-Editor for the journal, Ecohealth:
Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Sustainability, and Co-editor of the
textbook, Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective (2001), and
has written over 75 peer-reviewed papers addressing the health effects of global
environmental change.
From 1996-2000, he was 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 heat waves, air pollution and
water- and vector-borne diseases, as well as the link between deforestation and
resurgent diseases in the Amazon.
He has earned medical board certification in both Occupational/Environmental
Medicine and Family Medicine and received his medical degree from Case Western
Reserve University and his Master of Public Health (MPH) degree from Johns
Hopkins University. He was been awarded as an Aldo Leopold Fellow, and as a Lead
Author on IPCC reports for 1995, 1998, 2001, and 2007, shares in the 2007 Nobel
Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC and Al Gore.
Professional Affiliations
Committee Member, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, for
committees on:
Earth Science and Medicine, 2004-2007
Applied NASA Research, 2006 - 2007
Strategies and Methods for Climate-related
Decision Support, 2007 - current
Committee Member, EPA Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee. 2007 -
current
Committee Member, CDC National Center for Environmental Health, Board of
Scientific Counselors. 2006-current
Committee Member, FACA Fanel for the US EPA, Human Impacts of Climate Change
(Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6)
Co-editor, Ecohealth: Ecology and Health, 2003- current.
Convening Lead Author for the United Nations Milliennium Ecosystem Assessment,
2002- current.
Principal Lead Author, United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
1994 - current.
Co-chair, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Summer Institute on
Climate and Health, July, 2004.
Executive Board Member, Consortium for Conservation Medicine, 2003 - 2004.
Co-chair for Health Expert Panel, US National Assessment on the Potential
Consequences of Climate Variability and Change, 1998-2002.
Co-chair, American Academy of Microbiology, Special Colloquium on Climate
Variability and Infectious Disease - June, 1997.
Co-chair, Society of Occupational and Environmental Health, Conference on
Climate Change, Implications for Occupational and Environmental Health,
Bethesda, March 1997.
Awards and Honors
Nobel Peace Prize, 2007 (Shared between Al Gore and the IPCC).
Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, 2005.
Family Medicine Teaching award, medical University of South Carolina, 1989.
Representative Publications:
Patz, JA, Campbell-Lendrum D, Gibbs H, Woodruff R. Health Impact
Assessment of Global Climate Change: Expanding upon Comparative Risk Assessment
approaches for Policy Making. Annual Reviews in Public Health 2007
(in press).
Bell ML, Goldberg R, Hogrefe C, Kinney PL, Knowlton K, Lynn B, Rosenthal J,
Rosenzweig C, Patz JA. Climate change, ambient ozone, and health in
50 US cities. Climatic Change (2007) DOI 10.1007/s10584-006-9166-7.
Foley JA, Asner GP, Costa MH, Coe MT, DeFries R, Gibbs HK, Howard EA, Olson
S, Patz J, Ramankutty N, and Snyder P (2007). Amazonian revealed: forest
degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin,
Frontiers in Ecology and Environment (cover). 2007 5(1): 25-32.
Patz JA and Olson SH, Climate change and health: global to local
influences on disease risk. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology
2006 100(5-6): 535-549.
Patz JA and Olson SH, Malaria risk and temperature: Influences from
global climate change and local land use practices. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America PNAS 2006
103(15): 5635-5636.
Patz JA, Campbell-Lendrum D, Holloway T, Foley, JA.
Impact of regional climate change on human health. Nature (cover)
(2005);438: 310-317.
Vittor, AY, Gilman RH, Tielsch J, Glass GE, Shields TM, Sanchez-Lozano W, Pinedo
VV, Patz JA (Corresponding Author). The effects of deforestation
on the human-biting rate of Anopheles darlingi, the primary vector of
falciparum malaria in the Peruvian Amazon. Am J Trop Med Hyg (Jan. 2006,
in press).
Patz JA, Daszak P, Tabor GM, et al. Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy
Recommendations on Land Use Change and Infectious Disease Emergence. Environ
Health Perspect 2004 (July).
Patz JA, Hulme M, Rosenzweig C, Mitchell TD, Goldberg RA, Githeko AK, Lele S,
McMichael AJ, Le Sueur D. Regional warming and malaria resurgence. Nature
2002;420:627-8.
Patz JA. A human disease indicator for the effects of recent global climate
change. Proc Nat Acad Sci 2002; 99(20): 12506-8.
Curriero FC, Heiner K, Zeger S, Samet J, Patz JA. Analysis of heat-mortality
in 11 cities of the Eastern United States. Am J Epidemiol 2002; 155(1): 80-87.
Curriero FC, Patz JA (corresponding author), Rose JB, Lele S. Analysis of the association between
extreme precipitation and waterborne disease outbreaks in the United States,
1948-1994. Am J Public Health 2001 (Aug) 91:1194-99.
Rose JB, Epstein PR, Lipp EK, Sherman BH, Bernard SM, Patz JA. Climate
variability and change in the United States: Potential impacts on water- and
food-borne diseases caused by microbiological agents. Environ Health Perspect
2001;109(suppl 2):211-222.
Patz JA, Graczyk TK, Geller N, Vittor AY. Effects of environmental change on
emerging parasitic diseases. Int J Parasitol 2000;30:1395-1405.
Patz JA, McGeehin MA, Bernard SM, Ebi KL, Epstein PR, Grambsch A, Gubler DJ,
Reiter P, Romieu I, Rose JB, Samet JM, Trtanj J. The potential health impacts of
climate variability and change for the United States: executive summary of the
report of the health sector of the U.S. National Assessment. Environ Health
Perspect 2000; 108: 367-376.
Glass G, Cheek, J, Patz JA, Shields TM, Doyle TJ, Thoroughman DA, Hunt DK,
Ensore RE, Gage KL, Ireland C, Peters CJ, Bryan R. Predicting high risk areas
for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome with remotely sensed data: the Four Corners
outbreak, 1993. J Emerg Infect Dis 2000;6: 239-246.
Teaching Experience
IES 400: Global Environmental Change and Disease Risk
PHS 740: Health Risk Assessment of Global Environmental Change
IES 900: Integrated Methods for Human and the Global Environment
Contact Information
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH
University of Wisconsin, Madison
[Population Health Sciences office
address]
610 Walnut St., Room 601
[Mail, Phone and Email]
1710 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53726
Phone: (608)262-4775
Fax: (608)265-4113
Email:
patz@wisc.edu
Updated 10/29/07
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