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patz@wisc.edu Links: He has served as Co-chair for the Health 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 World Health Organization (WHO) monographs on climate change. He currently is Co-Editor for the journal, Ecohealth: Conservation Medicine and Ecosystem Sustainability, and has co-edited a textbook: Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective, published in 2001). Dr. Patz has written over 75 peer-reviewed scientific 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, and has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences. His areas of research investigation include the effects of climate change on heat waves, air pollution and water- and vector-borne infectious diseases, as well as the link between deforestation and the resurgence of malaria 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. In 2005, he was awarded as an Aldo Leopold Leadership 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. Committee Member of the National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, Committee Member, EPA Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee. 2007 –Current Committee Member, National Research Council, Panel on Applied NASA Research, 2006-2007 Committee Member, FACA Panel for the US EPA, Human Impacts of Climate Change (Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.6) Committee on Earth Science and Medicine, 2004- current. Co-editor, Ecohealth: Ecology and Health, 2003 – current. Convening Lead Author, for the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2002-current. Task Force Member, United Nations, Task Force on Environmental Sustainability, for the UN Millennium Development Goals, 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. Nobel Peace Prize, 2007 (Shared between Al Gore and the IPCC) Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, 2005. Family MedicineTeaching Award, Medical University of South Carolina, 1989. Merck Distinguished Lecture in Infectious Diseases, Scheduled November 2003, London Health Sciences Center, London, Ontario. Distinguished Lecture Series, “Climate Change, Health and Integrated Assessment.” Global Change Program, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Dec., 1996. 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). Patz, J.A., D Campbell-Lendrum, T. Holloway, and J.A Foley (2005). Impact of regional climate change on human health. Nature 438, 310-317. Vittor, A.Y, R.H. Gilman, J. Tielsch, G. Glass, T. Shields, W.S. Lozano, V. Pinedo-Cancino, and J.A. Patz (2006). The effect of Deforestation on the human-biting rate of anopheles darlingi, the primary vector of falciparum malaria in the Peruvian amazon. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 74(1), 3–11. Patz, J.A., P. Daszak, G.M. Tabor, A.A. Aguirre, M. Pearl, J. Epstein, N.D. Wolfe, A.M. Kilpatrick, J. Foufopoulos, D. Molyneux, D.J. Bradley, and members of the Working Group on Land Use Change and Disease Emergence (2004). Unhealthy Landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence. Environmental Health Perspectives 112, 10 July 2000. 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. 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. Education website /outreach to K-12 |
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