Jonathan Patz

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Jonathan Alan Patz is an American academic who is a professor and John P. Holton Chair of Health [1] and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he serves as Director of the Global Health Institute. [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. [4]

Contents

Patz's research focuses primarily on:global health, public health, global climate change, infectious diseases, urban air pollution, land use change, the built urban environment and transportation planning effects on health—sometimes referred to as health co-benefits of climate change mitigation. [5] His work on co-benefits appeared in Forbes Magazine . [6] In 2017, Rotary International [7] covered Patz's research on climate-health impacts. His research has focused on geographic regions in Africa, Amazonia, and the United States. [8]

Early life and education

Patz was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He attended the Baltimore Friends School, a private Quaker coeducational school for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. [9] He attended Colorado College, receiving a B.A. in biology in 1980. [8] Patz received a medical degree in 1987 from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed a residency in family medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina in 1990. [8] In 1992, he completed a master's degree in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health. He then completed an environmental and occupational medicine residency at Johns Hopkins in 1994, becoming certified by the American Board of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in 1997. [2]

Career

Patz was a family medicine clinician in Missoula, Montana, and Baltimore, Maryland, from 1990 to 1994. [8] In 1994, he became a full-time researcher at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences.

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 2008 he became a full professor and a faculty affiliate of the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs. In 2011 Patz was appointed to serve as the inaugural director of University of Wisconsin-Madison's campus-wide Global Health Institute. Patz has fostered partnerships between the Global Health Institute and the UW Energy Institute, the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and the campus's Office of Sustainability. [10]

Patz has designed environmental health courses around the theme, "Health Impact Assessment of Global Environmental Change". He has taught WHO workshops on global environmental health. He directs a "Certificate in Humans and the Global Environment," that emerged from his directing (as Principal Investigator) a National Science Foundation (NSF) Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) award. He developed and taught a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on Climate Change Policy and Public Health in November 2015. [11]

Research

Patz and his research team focus on the nexus of climate change and health. He served as principal investigator for an EPA STAR grant in 1996 entitled, "Integrated Assessment of the Public Health Effects of Climate Change for the US and US territories", one of the first federal grants awarded on this subject. [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. [13] [14]

Publications and presentations

Patz has published 188 research items. [15] His peer-reviewed scientific publications have appeared in journals such as Nature , [16] Science , PNAS , The Lancet , JAMA , American Journal of Public Health , Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases , and Environmental Health Perspectives and focus on publicizing the public health effects of climate change. [8]

In 1997, Patz organized and led the first briefing on climate change and health to then EPA Administrator Carol Browner on why climate change matters to public safety. In 1998, he served as co-chair of the Health Expert Panel for the first U.S. National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change. He served as founding president of the International Association for Ecology and Health from 2006 to 2010, convening scientists and professionals around health crises stemming from global climate and ecological change. 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). He has served on five scientific committees of the NAS, and on a committee of the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). He has also served on science advisory and FACA committees for several federal agencies. He was invited on two occasions to brief the Dalai Lama on the inequities posed by climate change. [17]

In September 2015, Patz addressed the Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Climate Health Summit to inform participants about the health implications of climate change. He also delivered a keynote presentation at the University of Geneva in February 2015. [18] His most recently published book, Climate Change and Public Health, co-authored with Barry S. Levy, further describes the implications of climate change with a focus on the adverse public health effects. [19]

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Jonathan Patz presents to students at the University of Geneva in February 2015

Selected journal articles

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ "Patz, Jonathan". Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, & Letters. 2020. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Patz, Jonathan". Global Health Institute. 2020. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ "EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE". Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  4. ↑ "UW–Madison's Jonathan Patz elected to National Academy of Medicine". news.wisc.edu. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ Patz, Jonathan A.; Frumkin, Howard; Holloway, Tracey; Vimont, Daniel J.; Haines, Andrew (October 15, 2014). "Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health". JAMA. 312 (15): 1565–1580. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.13186. ISSN   0098-7484. PMC   6108836 . PMID   25244362.
  6. ↑ Mui, Chunka. "Climate Change Best Case Scenario: Save Millions, Make Trillions". Forbes. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  7. ↑ "The Rotarian Conversation Your health is at risk". www.rotary.org. Retrieved December 12, 2019.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "Dr. Jonathan Patz CV".
  9. ↑ "Friends School | A Private Coeducational Quaker School in Baltimore, MD". www.friendsbalt.org. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  10. ↑ "Meet our Director Jonathan Patz". Global Health Institute. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  11. ↑ MOOCs, UW-Madison. "Climate Change Policy and Public Health". Massive Online Open Courses. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  12. ↑ Winner, Darrell. "Final Report: Integrated Assessment of the Public Health Effects of Climate Change for the United States". U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA.
  13. ↑ Patz, Jonathan. "Leadership: Jonathan Patz". Global Health Institute. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
  14. ↑ Peeples, Lynne (November 2, 2011). "Swapping Tail Pipes For Pedals: Small Changes Could Pay Huge Dividends For Public Health And Economy". Huffington Post.
  15. ↑ "Jonathan Patz Profile". Research Gate. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  16. ↑ Patz, Jonathan A.; Campbell-Lendrum, Diarmid; Holloway, Tracey; Foley, Jonathan A. (November 2005). "Impact of regional climate change on human health". Nature. 438 (7066): 310–317. Bibcode:2005Natur.438..310P. doi:10.1038/nature04188. ISSN   1476-4687. PMID   16292302. S2CID   285589.
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  18. ↑ Grauvogl, Ann. "EPA Administrator's WHO address completes 18-year circle for Patz". Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Nelson Institute.
  19. ↑ Levy, Barry S.; Patz, Jonathan (2015). Climate Change and Public Health. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-020245-3.
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