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Overview

Jonathan A. Patz is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States and focuses primarily on Environmental Science.

Their research includes a diverse range of topics within environmental and public health spheres. Key topics addressed in their work include:

  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health

Jonathan A. Patz's publications have appeared frequently in several venues, such as:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Wellcome Open Research
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Health Affairs

Their recent papers include:

  • Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change, 2022, Nature Climate Change
  • Land use-induced spillover: a call to action to safeguard environmental, animal, and human health, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • A framework to guide planetary health education, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Intracounty modeling of COVID-19 infection with human mobility: Assessing spatial heterogeneity with business traffic, age, and race, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Developing A Definition Of Climate And Health Literacy, 2020, Health Affairs

Jonathan A. Patz collaborates frequently with several coauthors who appear multiple times in their publications, including:

  • Abera Kumie
  • Kiros Berhane
  • Samuel Younkin
  • Henry Fremont
  • Worku Tefera

Their work spans multiple subfields, especially within environmental and health sciences, such as:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • General Health Professions
  • Health
  • Sociology and Political Science

Best Publications

  • Global Consequences of Land Use

    Jonathan A. Foley;Ruth DeFries;Gregory P. Asner;Carol Barford

  • Impact of regional climate change on human health

    Jonathan A. Patz;Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum;Tracey Holloway;Jonathan A. Foley

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Temperature and Mortality in 11 Cities of the Eastern United States

    Frank C. Curriero;Karlyn S. Heiner;Jonathan M. Samet;Scott L. Zeger

  • Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases.

    Jonathan A. Patz;Thaddeus K. Graczyk;Nina Geller;Amy Y. Vittor

  • Climate change and vector-borne diseases: a regional analysis.

    Andrew K. Githeko;Steve W. Lindsay;Ulisses E. Confalonieri;Jonathan A. Patz

  • The Association Between Extreme Precipitation and Waterborne Disease Outbreaks in the United States, 1948–1994

    Frank C. Curriero;Jonathan A. Patz;Joan B. Rose;Subhash Lele

  • Unhealthy landscapes: Policy recommendations on land use change and infectious disease emergence

    J. A. Patz;P. Daszak;G. M. Tabor;A. A. Aguirre

  • Global Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases

    Jonathan A. Patz;Paul R. Epstein;Thomas A. Burke;John M. Balbus

  • Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change

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  • Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on vector- and rodent-borne diseases.

    Duane J. Gubler;Paul Reiter;Kristie L. Ebi;Wendy Yap

  • Amazonia revealed: forest degradation and loss of ecosystem goods and services in the Amazon Basin

    Jonathan A. Foley;Gregory P. Asner;Marcos Heil Costa;Michael T. Coe

  • Broad threat to humanity from cumulative climate hazards intensified by greenhouse gas emissions

    Camilo Mora;Daniele Spirandelli;Erik C. Franklin;John Lynham

  • Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Health

    Jonathan A. Patz;Howard Frumkin;Tracey Holloway;Daniel J. Vimont

  • Effects of El Niño and ambient temperature on hospital admissions for diarrhoeal diseases in Peruvian children

    William Checkley;Leonardo David Epstein;Robert H. Gilman;Dante Figueroa

  • The effect of deforestation on the human-biting rate of Anopheles darlingi, the primary vector of Falciparum malaria in the Peruvian Amazon.

    Amy Yomiko Vittor;Robert H. Gilman;James Tielsch;Gregory Glass

  • Climate Change and Human Health

    Rita R. Colwell;Paul R. Epstein;Duane Gubler;Nancy Maynard

  • Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on water- and foodborne diseases caused by microbiologic agents.

    Joan B. Rose;Paul R. Epstein;Erin K. Lipp;Benjamin H. Sherman

  • Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Health Synthesis

    Carlos Corvalan;Simon Hales;Anthony McMichael;Colin Butler

  • Dengue fever epidemic potential as projected by general circulation models of global climate change

    Jonathan A. Patz;Willem J. M. Martens;Dana A. Focks;Theo H. Jetten

  • Health effects of climate change.

    Andy Haines;Jonathan A. Patz

  • Climate change, ambient ozone, and health in 50 US cities

    Michelle L. Bell;Richard Goldberg;Christian Hogrefe;Patrick L. Kinney

Frequent Co-Authors

Tracey Holloway
Tracey Holloway University of Wisconsin–Madison
Ronald E. Gangnon
Ronald E. Gangnon University of Wisconsin–Madison
Holly K. Gibbs
Holly K. Gibbs University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jonathan A. Foley
Jonathan A. Foley University of Minnesota
Peter Daszak
Peter Daszak Columbia University
Anthony J. McMichael
Anthony J. McMichael Australian National University
Andrew K. Githeko
Andrew K. Githeko Kenya Medical Research Institute
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum World Health Organization
Duane J. Gubler
Duane J. Gubler Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
Robert H. Gilman
Robert H. Gilman Johns Hopkins University

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