Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH

Director

Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Professor & Director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. For the past 15 years, Dr. Patz served as 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. He also Co-­chaired the health expert panel of the US National Assessment on Climate Change, a report mandated by the US Congress.
Dr. Patz has written over 90 peer-­‐reviewed scientific papers, a textbook addressing the health effects of global environmental change, and most recently, a co-­‐edited five-­‐ volume Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (2011). He has been invited to brief both houses of Congress and has served on several scientific committees of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Patz served as Founding President of the International Association for Ecology and Health.
In addition to directing the university-­wide Global Health Institute, Professor Patz has faculty appointments in the Nelson Institute, Center for Sustainability & the Global Environment (SAGE) and the Department of Population Health Sciences. He also directs the NSF-­‐sponsored Certificate on Humans and the Global Environment (CHANGE).
Dr. 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.