Jonathan Patz, M.D., M.P.H.
Jonathan Patz, M.D., M.P.H., is the Founding Director of the Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he continues to serve as Adjunct Professor, and he is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Core Faculty Member for the Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. An expert in global climate change, he was appointed in 1998 as co-chair for the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change health sector expert panel, and in 2002, as the convening lead author for the United Nations/World Bank Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. As of 2004, he is also an Affiliate Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research.