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Dr. Jonathan Patz is Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he directs a university-wide initiative on Global Environmental Health. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and also an Affiliate Scientist of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. 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 50 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.