Jonathan Patz

I am the director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a professor and the John P. Holton Chair in Health and the Environment with appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences. I am the President of the International Association for Ecology and Health. I have briefed both houses of Congress and have served on several scientific committees of the National Academy of Science, and currently serve on science advisory boards for both the CDC and EPA. My research focuses on the health effects of climate change, and I am strongly committed to the development of CDE’s strengths in Spatial and Environmental Demography. Due to the policy-relevance of global environmental health issues, I also actively participate in national and international assessments related to global climate change. Examples include roles of Lead Author, for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Co-Chair for the health report of the first US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, report to Congress.

CDE Research Area Affiliations:

Spatial and Environmental Demography

Selected Publications:

Fremont, Henry, Samuel Younkin, Anne Roué Le Gall, Natalie Levine, and Jonathan Patz. “An Analysis of the Health Effects of Physical Activity due to Active Travel Policies in Rennes, France.” Wellcome Open Research 9, no. 154 (2024): 154.

Kim, Haein, Tracey Holloway, Morgan Edwards, and Jonathan A. Patz. “Air Quality and Human Health Co-benefits of Grid Interconnections for Residential Sector Electrification in Northeast Asia.” In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts, vol. 2023, no. 1034, pp. GH31A-1034. 2023.