Jonathan Patz

[2] Patz also holds appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences at the UW-Madison.

He serves on the executive committee of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement[3] and was elected in 2019 to the National Academy of Medicine.

In 2004, Patz joined the University of Wisconsin-Madison as an associate professor of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences.

In 2011 Patz was appointed to serve as the inaugural director of University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus-wide Global Health Institute.

He developed and taught a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Climate Change Policy and Public Health in November 2015.

[12] Scientific discoveries under his team leadership on this and subsequent projects include: the impact of climate change on increased risk for asthma; the relationship between heat wave mortality and latitude, and identifying populations most vulnerable to heat-related morbidity; the association of hantavirus outbreaks with El Niño in the southwestern United States; the relationship between waterborne disease outbreaks across the U.S. and heavy rainfall events; the link between South American cholera outbreaks and childhood diarrheal diseases to El Niño; altered mosquito-borne malaria and dengue fever risks from projected climate change; and increased malaria risk from combined land use and local climatic change in the Amazon Basin.

His team's recent research has targeted and substantially contributed to a new area of climate change and health assessment: "co-benefits" of greenhouse gas mitigation policies.

Patz has testified on climate change and health in both houses of Congress, state legislatures, and has given invited presentations to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).