Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Professor & John P. Holton Chair in Health and the Environment, and Director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Patz served as Health Co-chaired for the first US National Assessment on Climate Change and a lead author for the UN IPCC for 15 years. From 2006 to 2010, Dr. Patz served as Founding President of the International Association for Ecology and Health. His awards include: Aldo Leopold Leadership Award (2005), IPCC’s Nobel Peace Prize (2007), Millennium Assessment’s Zayed International Prize (2006), UW Romnes Fellow (2009), Fulbright Scholar award (2014) and the American Public Health Association’s Environmental Health Leadership Award (2015). He has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers and two textbooks on health and global environmental change.