Jonathan Patz

Jonathan Alan Patz is an American academic who is a professor and John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he serves as Director of the Global Health Institute. 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 and was elected in 2019 to the National Academy of Medicine.

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. His work on co-benefits appeared in ''Forbes Magazine''. In 2017, Rotary International covered Patz's research on climate-health impacts. His research has focused on geographic regions in Africa, Amazonia, and the United States. Provided by Wikipedia

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by Colwell, Rita R., Patz, Jonathan
Published 1998
American Academy of Microbiology

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by Colwell, Rita R., Patz, Jonathan
Published 1998
American Academy of Microbiology