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Department of Environmental Health Sciences
Division of Occupational & Environmental Health
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health
615 N. Wolfe St.
Baltimore, MD 21205-2179
Phone (410) 955-4195 (w) (410) 377-5623 (h)
FAX (410) 955-1811
Email
jpatz@jhsph.edu

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

B.A./1980 Colorado College / Biology
M.D./1987 Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Training

1987-'90 Family Medicine Residency
Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina

MPH/1992 Masters of Public Health Program
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.

1993-’94 Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Medical Licensure
Maryland (active) -D42440, Montana (inactive)

Medical Boards

1990 American Board of Family Practice Certification (Recertified, 1996)
1997 American Board of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Current Director, Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change, Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Program projects range from infectious disease studies implementing GIS and satellite remote sensing, to work in heat-related mortality, air pollution modeling and environmental health cirruculum development.

Current Assistant Professor, Dept. Environmental Health Sciences; joint appt. in Dept. Molecular 1)Microbiology & Immunology; 2) Dept. of Epidemiology, 3) International Health; and 4) Medicine (School of Medicine).

1990-'94 Clinician, Family Practice
Missoula, Montana and Baltimore, Maryland

Practiced clinical family medicine.

1981-'83 Research Assistant, Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA.
Researched early biomarkers for breast malignancies in cancer strain mice.

1979-'80 Wildlife Biologist, Colorado Division of Wildlife and Peregrine Falcon Fund.
Analyzed prey species DDT content and traced geographic pathway of this pesticide

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Society Membership and Leadership

American Public Health Association
Section Council Member, Environment Section, 1997.
Chairman, Resolutions & Policy Development Committee, Environment Section, 1996.

American Academy of Family Physicians
Chairman, Environmental Health Subcommittee- Maryland Chapter, 1993-94

American Academy of Microbiology
Co-chair for special colloquium on Climate Variability and Infectious Disease - June, 1997.

American Association for the Advancement of Science (member)

American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (member)

American College of Preventive Medicine (member)

Maryland Medical and Chirurgical Society (member environmental health task force)

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Associate, Project on Global Environmental Change and Health

Society of Occupational and Environmental Health
Co-chair for Conference on Climate Change: Implications for Occupational and Environmental Health - NIH, March, 1997.

 

Advisory Panels

US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP)
Co-chair for Health, "US National Assessment: the Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change," (current).

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Principal Lead Author for Second Assessment Report (1995-96).
Principal Lead Author for N. American Assessment (1997).
Principal Lead Author for Adaptation/Technology transfer interim report (current).
Principal Lead Author for Third Assessment Report (current).

Health of the Oceans Module of the International Oceanic Commission's Global Oceans Observing System.

APHA Special Panel on Children and Environmental Health.

Advisory Board, National Academy of Science and Institute of Medicine, Conference on Health and Climate Change, Washington, DC, Sept. 1995

Advisory Board, Center for a Livable Future, JHU School of Public Health (current).

Steering Committee, American Academy of Microbiology, Climate & Infectious Disease Colloquium, II (current).

Steering Committee, WHO, WMO, UNEP, University of Arizona: International Conference on Climate, Environment and Health (current).

 

Program or Project Development

Founded the Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change at JHSPH.

Co-developed and taught first JHU course on Global Change and Human Health, piloted Spring semester, 1997. The course brings together faculty from Schools of Public Health, Engineering, Arts & Sci.

Health Advisor to the interagency US Country Studies Program (1995-97).

 

Consultations

Stratus Consulting, Boulder, CO. For document to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -1999.

World Health Organization
WHO Workshop on Climate Change and Health in the South Pacific –current.
WHO/WMO/UNEP Task Force member and Principal Lead Author preparing the monograph, Climate change and human health, 1993-96.
Consultant to WHO/UNEP/MRC Interagency Climate Change and Human Health Monitoring Workshop, Dec. 1997.
Consultant to WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, May, 1998.

Innovative Medical Research, Inc. Clinician for Lyme Disease vaccine clinical trials, 1996.

 

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Peer Review Activities

Reviewer for National Research Council (NRC) report on Oceans and Health, 1998.

Manuscripts reviewed for JAMA, Environmental Health Perspectives, Environmental Research, Annual Review of Energy and the Environment, Climate Research, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, American Journal of Industrial Medicine.

Invited Book Review, Health Impacts of Climate Change and Ozone Depletion: an Eco-epidemiological Modelling Approach, for the Journal of Climatic Change.

Reviewer for UNEP’s Global Environmental Outlook series of reports.

 

Editorial Board Membership

Co-editor-in-chief, Global Change and Human Health: Reviews on Globalisation, Environmental Change and Health.

Advisory Board and Editorial Board, Ecosystem Health.

Ad Hoc Review of Proposals

Reviewer for NSF, Dutch National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection, NOAA’s Office of Global Programs (several grants), and the US Navy.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

Family Medicine Teaching Award, 1989.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

Szilagyi J, Parlange MB, Patz JA, Graczyk TK. Modeling watershed runoff under climate scenarios to aid surface water contamination predictions. J Environ Quality (in press).

Seas C, Miranda J, Gil AI, Leon-Barua R, Patz JA, Huq A, Colwell RR, Sack RB. New Insights on the emergence of cholera in Latin America during 1991: the Peruvian experience. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2000;62(4) (in press).

Patz JA, Graczyk TK, Geller N, Vittor AY. Effects of environmental change on emerging parasitic diseases. Intnl J Parasitol 2000;30:1395-1405.

Martens P, McMichael AJ, Patz JA. Globalisation, environmental change and health. Global Change and Human Health; 1(1):4-8.

Speelmon EC, Checkley W, Gilman RH, Patz JA, Calderon M, Manga S. Cholera incidence and El Niño-related higher ambient temperature. JAMA 2000; 283: 3072-4.

Rose JB, Daeschner S, Easterling DR, Curriero FC, Lele S, Patz JA. Climate and waterborne outbreaks. J Am Water Works Assoc 2000. 92:77-87.

Githeko AK, Lindsay SW, Confalonieri U, Patz JA. Climate change and vector borne diseases: a regional analysis. WHO Bulletin 78, 1136-1147.

Patz JA, McGeehin MA, Bernard SM, Ebi KL, Epstein PR, Grambsch A, Gubler DJ, Reiter P, Romieu I, Rose JB, Samet JM, Trtanj J. The potential health impacts of climate variability and change for the United States: executive summary of the report of the health sector of the U.S. National Assessment. Environ Health Perspect 2000; 108: 367-376.

Glass G, Cheek, J, Patz JA, Shields TM, Doyle TJ, Thoroughman DA, Hunt DK, Ensore RE, Gage KL, Ireland C, Peters CJ, Bryan R. Predicting high risk areas for Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome with remotely sensed data: the Four Corners outbreak, 1993. J Emerg Infect Dis 2000;6 (3): 239-246.

Checkley W, Epstein LD, Gilman RH, Figueroa D, Cama RI, Patz JA, Black RE. Effects of the El Niño and ambient temperature on hospital admissions for diarrhoeal diseases in Peruvian children. Lancet 2000; 355: 442-450.

Graczyk TK, Evans BM, Shiff CJ, Karreman HJ, Patz JA. Environmental and geographical factors contributing to contamination of watershed with Cryptosporidium parvum oocystes. Environ Research. 2000; 82: 263-271.

Patz JA, Engelberg, D, and Last J. The effects of changing weather on public health. Annual Rev Public Health. 2000; 21: 271-307.

Bernard SM, Rose J, Sherman B, McGeehin M, Scheraga J, Patz JA. Water, health, and climate: assessing the potential consequences of climate change and variability on waterborne disease risk. J Am Water Works Assoc 1999.

Patz JA & Lindsay S. New challenges, new tools: the impact of climate change on infectious diseases. Current Opinions in Microbiology 1999; 2:445-451.

Patz JA, Strzepek K, Lele S , Hedden M, Greene S, Noden B, Hay SI, Kalkstein L, Beier JC. Predicting key malaria transmission factors, biting and entomologic inoculation rates, using modeled soil moisture in Kenya. J Trop Med International Health 1998; 3 (10): pp.818-827.

Patz JA. Quantifying the health risks of climate change through simulation modeling (editorial). Climatic Change 1998; 39:39-46.

Colwell RR, Epstein PR, Gubler D, Maynard N, McMichael AJ, Patz JA, Sack RB, Shope R. Climate change and human health (letter). Science 1998;279(Feb 13):968-969.

Patz JA, Martens WJM, Focks DA, Jetten TH. Dengue fever epidemic potential as projected by general circulation models of global climate change. Environ Health Perspect 1998; 106 (3):147- 153.

Kovats S, Patz JA, Dobbin D. Global climate change and environmental health: summary of the proceedings of the 1997 annual conference of the Society for Occupation and Environmental Health. Intl J Occup Med 1998;4(1):41-52.

Patz JA. Climate change and health: New research challenges. Health and Environment Digest 1998;12(7).

Bouma MJ, Poveda G , Rojas W, Chavasse D, Quiñones M, Cox J, Patz JA. Predicting high-risk years for malaria in Columbia using parameters of El Niño Southern Oscillation. J Trop Med International Health 1997; 2(12):1122-1127.

McMichael AJ, Patz JA, Kovats RS. Impacts of global environmental change on future health and health care services in tropical countries. British Medical Bulletin 1998;54(2): 475-488.

Patz JA & Martens WJM. Climate impacts on vector-borne disease transmission: global and site- specific analyses. J Epidemiology 1996;6(4): S145-S148.

Patz JA & Epstein P. Global Climate Controvery (letter). JAMA 996 (Aug);276(5):373-74.

Patz JA, Epstein P, Burke T, Balbus J. Global climate change and emerging infectious diseases, JAMA 1996 (Jan); 275:217-223.

Patz JA & Balbus J. Methods for assessing public health vulnerability to global climate change. Climate Research 1996;6(2): 113-125

Patz JA. Assessing the public health effects of global warming: new and ongoing international efforts. World Resource Review 1995; 7(1): 104-112.

Patz JA, Jodrey, D. Occupational risk for surgeons: greatest risk may lay outside of the operating room. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 1995; 65: 627-629.

Patz JA, Tapper D, Outzen H, Klagsbrun M, & Shing Y. Determination of breast cancer in mice by the identification of growth factor activity in breast milk. Surgical Forum 1983; 34: 432-435.

Brem H, Patz JA, & Tapper D. Detection of human central nervous system tumors: Use of migration-stimulating activity of CSF. Surgical Forum 1983; 34: 532-534.

 

Reports, Books and Monographs

Aron JL and Patz JA (Eds). Ecosystem change and public health: a global perspective. Johns Hopkins University Press 2001 (in press).

Colwell RR & Patz JA (eds). Climate, Infectious Disease and Human Health: an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Report from the American Academy of Microbiology, Washington, 1998.

WHO, WMO, UNEP, Task Group. Climate change and human health. Geneva , World Health Organization, 1996. (Principal Lead Author).

Articles and Editorials not peer reviewed

Patz JA. Climate Change and Health: Challenges for an Interdisciplinary Approach. Environmental Management; March, 1999: 35-41.

Patz JA. Global Warming: New Patterns of Diseases. US Medicine, August, 1996: p12.

Patz JA. Climate change and health: need for expanded scope of occupational and environmental medicine. Bulletin of the Society of Occupational & Environmental Health, 1995; 4(3):3-4.

Patz JA. Environmental health in Family Medicine. The Maryland Family Doctor 1993 (Fall): 6-7.

International Programme on Chemical Safety. Childhood exposure to lead paint dust. IPCS News 1993 (Nov); issue 4, WHO, Geneva.

Chapters

 

Patz JA, McGeehin MA, Bernard SM, Ebi KL, Epstein PR, Grambsch A, Gubler DJ, Reiter P, Romieu I, Rose JB, Samet JM, Trtanj J. Potential consequences of climate variability and change for human health in the United States. Chapter in: Climate Change Impacts on the United States: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. Cambridge University Press, 2001, in press (official report to Congress of the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change).

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Assessing the Potential Impacts of Climate Change upon Human Health. Chapter in: The United Nations IPCC Climate Change Assessment -2000. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, in press. (Served as "Principal Lead Author")

Patz JA. Urban climate and respiratory disease. Chapter in: The Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change. John Wiley and Sons Ltd., London (in press).

Patz JA and Wolfe ND. Global Environmental Health and Human Health. Chapter in: Conservation Medicine. Taber G, Pearl M, House C (eds), Oxford University Press (in press).

Das A, Lele S, Glass GE, Patz JA. Spatial Modeling for Discrete Data using Generalized Linear Mixed Models. In: Heuvelink, G.B.M. and Lemmens, M.J.P.M., eds. Accuracy 2000. Delft University Press, The Netherlands, pp. 125-133.

Li CS, Bergman L, Castelli V, Smith JR, Thomasian A, Gurri Glass GE, Lele S, Patz JA . Model-based Mining of Remotely Sensed Data for Environmental and Public Health Applications. Chapter in: Advances in Biomedical Image Databases. Kluwer Academic Press (in press).

Patz JA & Glass GE. Using Remotely Sensed Data to Anticipate Risk Areas for Hantavirus. Chapter in: Scientists on Infectious Diseases, Am Museum of Natural History, 1999.

Patz JA. Climate Change and Ozone Depletion. Chapter in: the 4th Edition of the ILO Encyclopedia of Occupational Health and Safety, Geneva, International Labor Organization 1998: pp.53.24 - 53.28.

Miller A, Patz J, Epstein P. Global aspects of environmental health. Chapter in: International Occupational and Environmental Health, First Edition. Bunn W, Fleming, L, Gardner I, (eds). Mosby Publishers, St. Louis (1998):557-568.

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, North America. Chapter in: The Regional Impacts of Climate Change. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. (Principal Lead Author).

Patz JA. Global Climate Change and Public Health. Chapter in: International Perspectives in Environment, Development and Health. G. Shahi, T. Kjellstrom, R. Lawrence and A. Binger (eds), New York, Springer Publications, 1997.

Patz JA. Health adaptations to climate change: a need for farsighted integrated approaches. In: Smith JB et al (eds). Adapting to Climate Change. New York, Springer, 1996.

United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Assessing the Potential Impacts of Climate Change upon Human Health. Chapter in: The United Nations IPCC Climate Change Assessment -1995. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995. (Principal Lead Author).

Balbus JM & Patz JA. Human health impacts and adaptation assessment. Chapter in: Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments: an International Handbook. Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Press, 1996.

Human Health. Chapter in: Climate Change Impacts Assessment Handbook, UNEP, 1999 (Contributing Author).

 

Posters

A. Gil, A. Huq, C. Lanata, D. Taylor, R. Orozco, I. Rivera, J. Patz, R. Colwell. Environmental

Source of Vibrio cholerae on the Peruvian Coast. 35th US-Japan Cholera and other bacterial enteric infection joint panel meeting – Dec 1999.

Other (invited)

Patz JA and Reisen WK. Trends in climate and emerging infectious disease linkages. Immunology Today.

Other (resubmitted)

Heiner K, Zeger S, Samet J, Patz JA. Analysis of heat-mortality in the Eastern United States. Am J Epidemiol (resubmit 2/00).

 

PART II

TEACHING

Advisees

Mirette Habib, MPH, 2000
Cindy Lou Parker, MD, MPH, 2000 – Preventive Medicine Rotation
Carolyn Leep, MPH (2001)
Amy Kasper, MHS (2001)
Amy Vittor, PhD (2001?)
Thesis title: "A Cross-Sectional Malaria Prevalence Study in the Peruvian Amazon: is   Deforestation a Risk Factor for Malaria?"

Preliminary Oral Participation

Andres Lescano
(James Star –Reviewed his Master’s thesis)
Mark DiMenna
Amy Vittor

Final Oral Participation

Joe Bunnen
Jingyee Kou

Classroom instruction

Course Director: "The Global Environment and Public Health"

Co-instructor: "Global Change and Health," Principal Instructor, George Fisher, School of Arts and Sciences

Lecturer

Occupational & Environmental Health, School of Medicine
Clinical Occupational Medicine
The Global Environment and Public Health
Biological Basis of Public Health
Foundations in International Health
Tropical Environmental Medicine
Summer Institutes ( Environmental Health and Epidemiology)
Winter Institute (Tropical Medicine and International Health)

 

RESEARCH GRANT PARTICIPATION

Awarded

Integrated Assessment of the Public Health Effects of Climate Change for the US and US territories, 10/96 - 9/00, US EPA , Office or Research & Development (ORD) . P.I. J.Patz - level of funding: $2.7 million over 3 years, plus $79,000 supplement .

Objective: conduct integrated assessment of climate change health impacts primarily from vector-borne and water-borne diseases and from weather disasters.

Responsibilities: Overall P.I. coordinating basic research, integrated modeling and risk communication. Supported @ 25%, 35%, and 40% salary over 3 years respectively.

 

Health Effects of Global Climate Change, Cooperative Agreement CR823143, 10/1/94 - 9/30/99, US EPA , Office of Policy - renewed on annual basis. P.I. J. Patz originally @ 100% funding (deferred up through 9/30/99 as other grants awarded) (Direct Costs = $105,486/yr , 1995-6; $126,300 ,1996-7; $240,000, 1997-8)

Objective: Interdisciplinary assessment of the health effects anticipated from global climate change.

Responsibilities: coordinate research, risk communication and outreach.

 

Teaching Module on Public Health and Climate Change, 10/1/95 - 12/31/96, US EPA P.I. J.Patz DC= $93,773 Project manager: Dr. Joan Aron @ 50% salary support

Objective: develop textbook and teaching materials related to global ecological change and public health.

Responsibilities: Assemble task group of experts, participate in concept and outline development, and co-edit textbook with Dr. Aron.

 

NASA, Mission to Planet Earth. P.I. IBM Hopkins subcontract P.I. Greg Glass (total IBM/Hopkins budget ~ $ 3 million). My funding level will vary between 8 - 20% salary plus allocated research assistant or technician.

Objective: implement satellite remotely sensed data to predict multiple health outcomes.

Responsibilities: Co-investigation to apply GIS and integrated assessment.

 

US National Assessment: Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change. 7/98 - 6/01 US EPA Office of Research and Development, cooperative agreement. P.I. J.Patz  Expected level of funding: $900,000 over 3 years.

Objective: conduct national assessment of climate change health impacts for the US Global Change Research Program

Responsibilities: Co-Chair and Co-Convening Author for health sector.

Supported @ 25%, 30%, and 30% salary over 3 years respectively; this also funds 1 new EHS faculty member, as well as a student and half a Research Assistant.

 

CDC. Pfiesteria & Climate Time-series and Geographic Analysis 10/1/98 - 9/30/00. (Subcontract through Batelle) P.I. J.Patz , Level of funding : $76,410

Objective: analyze relationship between climate variability, nutrient loading and toxic pfiesteria fishkills along the eastern seaboard.

Responsibilities: coordinate acquisition of USGS, USDA, NOAA and toxic fishkill databases for time-series and GIS analysis by collaborators.

 

New York Community Trust. Deforestation and Malaria in the Amazon. 3/00 – 3/02 P.I. J.Patz, Level of funding: $257,000

Objective: analyze relationship between deforestation and the risk of malaria transmission in the Peruvian Amazon.

Responsibilities: Supervise graduate student in the field, and coordinate all analyses.

 

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Instructor for Global Change and Human Health full semester course with Drs. Ellis and Fisher.

Course lecturer and seminar lecturer for both of my joint departments: Environmental Health Sciences and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Department

    Course director for EH II, "The Global Environment and Public Health."

School

    Member, Committee on Human Research

 

PRESENTATIONS

Scientific Meetings (presentations, sessions presided, or conferences co-chaired)

Emerging Diseases in the Urban Environment, New York Academy of Medicine, NYC, Dec, 2000.

National Academy of Sciences, Forum on Science, Policy and the Environment (Discussant for session, "Global Environmental Change"), Dec., 2000.

Findings of the Health Sector of the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change, APHA Annual Conference, Boston, Nov, 2000.

Respiratory Diseases and Climate Change. NIEHS International Conference on Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases. Lucknow, India, Nov., 2000.

Climate Change and Parasitic Infections, VIII European Multicolloqium of Parasitology, Poznan, Poland, Sept, 2000.

Defying Nature’s End, Center for Applied Biodiversity Science, Conservation International, Pasedena, August, 2000.

International Workshop on Climate and Health in Small Island States, Western Pacific Region, Samoa, July, 2000 (served as primary WHO Consultant to the workshop).

Deforestation and malaria: a comparison of malaria risk in deforested and forested sites in the Peruvian Amazon. Conservation Medicine Symposium, Conservation Biology Annual Conference, Missoula, June, 2000.

1) Human Health Impacts of Climate Variability and Change in the US. 2) Human Health: Responses to Climate Variability and Change. Am Acad. Advancement of Science, Washington DC, Feb. 2000.

Climate, Ecological Change and Public Health: 2-part lecture series for the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Feb., 2000.

Hantavirus Risk and Climate/Ecological Variability. North Carolina Department of Public Health, Greensboro, NC, Feb, 2000.

Climate Change, El Niño and Human Health. Seminar Series of the Environmental and Occupational Health Institute, Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, Jan. 2000.

Health Effects of Global Environmental Change. Human Health and the Environment in the Twenty-first Century. Western North Carolina Tomorrow, Ashville, Jan. 2000.

Association of extreme rainfall and water-borne disease outbreaks. Energy Modeling Forum, Snowmass, July, 1999.

Session co-chair, Climate Change and Health, International Congress on Ecosystem Health, Davis, August, 1999.

Mesoscale climate modeling of air pollution in Baltimore under climate change scenarios. Society of Epidemiological Research, Baltimore, June, 1999.

Symposium on the Science of Global Climate Change. University of Iowa, Iowa City, March, 1999.

Integrated research approaches to climate variability & health studies. US Geological Survey, Reston, March 1999.

College of Sciences’ Distinguished Visitor Seminar, Old Dominion University & Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, February, 1999.

Integrated climate/health studies: Research in progress. American Meteorological Society, Special Session on Climate and Health, Dallas, Jan. 1999.

Co-presiding session with Dick Jackson (CDC), "Agricultural Waste and Water Quality," APHA, Washington, Nov, 1998.

Presiding session, "Climate Change, El Niño and Health: New Research Findings and Report from the Kyoto Protocol," APHA, Washington, Nov, 1998.

Co- presiding session, "The USGCRP National Assessment of Climate Variability and Change: Health Sectoral Asssessment," APHA, Washington, Nov, 1998.

Satellite Remote Sensing Applications to Public Health. NASA Workshop on Interdecadal Climate Variability, Williamsburg, Sept.1998.

New findings from research on public health effects of global climate change. Ecological Society of America, Baltimore, August, 1998.

Climate simulation modeling applied to public health. Energy Modeling Forum, Aspen, Aug., 1998.

Climate Variability / Health Research Update, Community Meeting on Integrated Assessment, Association of American Geographers, Washington, July, 1998.

National Research Council, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. Round table presentation for strategic planning of the National Assessment on Climate Change, Washington, June, 1998.

Climate & Health: the North American Perspective. European Centre for Environment and Health, WHO, Rome, May, 1998.

Co-Presider with Rita Colwell (NSF), "Climate, Pathogens & Health." American Society for Microbiology: 98th General Meeting, Atlanta, May, 1998.

Water-borne diseases and extreme precipitation: preliminary results (Poster Session). International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, March, 1998.

WHO/UNEP/MRC sponsored International Workshop on Climate Change Monitoring. "Monitoring for Vector-borne Diseases" (presentation and working paper), London, Dec., 1997.

Co-chair for the health impacts sector for the national assessment of the US Global Change Research Program, Washington, Nov, 1997.

Climate Change, Health and Environmental Policy: case study of air pollution in China. APHA, Indianapolis, Nov., 1997.

Presider for session on Global Climate Change and Vector-borne diseases. Second International Congress on Vector Ecology, Orlando, Oct., 1997.

White House Conference on Climate Change (invited participant). Luncheon meeting with Secretary of Health, Donna Shalala, Oct., 1997.

Impacts of Climate Change. Science Summit on Climate Change, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, September, 1997.

Chairman, human health working group , US EPA Regional Workshop on Climate Change Impacts in the Mid-Atlantic Region, Penn. State University, September, 1997.

Keynote address for NIEHS, NIAID, DOE, EPRI, NASA, Conference on Climate Change and Disease, Washington, Sept., 1997.

US-Mexico-Canada Research Development Workshop on Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases in North America (under venue of the NAFTA), NIH (Bethesda), September, 1997.

WHO/FAO/ IGBP (GCTE)/ IRI/ ICIPE: International Workshop on Global Change Impact Assessment Approaches for Vectors and Vector-borne Diseases, Nairobi, September, 1997.

Public health repercussions of climate and ecological change. Special Symposium: Technological Humans and Global Change. Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, August, 1997.

Co-chair, special colloquium on Global Climate Change and Infectious Disease, American Academy of Microbiology, Montego Bay, June,1997.

Co-chair, Conference on Climate Change: Implications for Occupational and Environmental Health. Society of Occupational and Environmental Health, NIH (Bethesda), March, 1997.

Global Climate Change and Pediatric Public Health (poster session). Children’s Environmental Health Network, Conference on Children’s Environmental Health, Washington, February, 1997.

Climate Change and Public Health: Implications for Latin America. 10th Anniversary Conference, Angeles Hospital, Mexico City, Dec., 1996.

Climate Change and Pediatric Diseases, Special Session on Emerging Environmental Health Issues in Children, APHA, New York, Nov., 1996.

Presider and organizer, Climate Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases. APHA, Nov.,1996.

Climate Change Impacts on Malaria and Dengue Fever: Analysis from Empiric Data and Mathematic Modeling. XIV International Scientific Meeting of the International Epidemiological Association, Nagoya, Japan, Aug., 1996.

Climate Change and the Spread of Dengue Fever: analysis from model simulations. Annual Conf Society of Ecosystem Health and Medicine, Copenhagen, Aug., 1996.

Climate Change, Human Health and Sustainability. Air and Waste Management Annual Conference, Nashville, June, 1996.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Natl Coucil International Health, Wash., DC, June 1996.

Climate Change and the spread of dengue fever and malaria. 7th International Conference on Global Warming, Vienna, Austria, April,1996.

Global Environmental Change and Public Health. Americam Society of Preventive Onchology, Washington, DC, March, 1996.

Global climate change: implications for sustainable health and development. Center for Environmental Information conference on, Sustainable Development and Global Climate Change. Washington, DC, Dec., 1995.

Global climate change: an inter-generational public health threat. APHA Special Session on Environment and Health: revisiting the linkages. San Diego, CA, Nov.,1995.

Co-chair of session, Implications for disease prevention, Conference on Human Health and Global Climate Change. National Academy of Science and the National Science and Technology Council, Washington, DC, Sept. 1995.

Health, Climate Change and Integrated Assessment. Energy Modelling Forum, Snowmass, CO, August, 1995,1996, 1997.

Health adaptations to climate change: a need for farsighted integrated approaches. The International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation Assessments, US Country Studies Program, St. Petersburg, Russia, May,1995.

Health/Ecosystem Linkages in an Integrated Assessment of Climate Change Impacts. Southeast Regional Workshop: Vulnerable Resources and Predictive Capabilities, US EPA, Charleston, SC, April, 1995.

African Regional Workshop on Climate Change and Health Vulnerabilities. US Country Studies Program, Harare, Zimbabwe, March,1995.

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases: Applications for Satellite Remote Sensing. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Cincinnati, OH, Nov.,1994.

Presider and organizer for plenary session, Global Environmental Change and Public Health: New Challenges and New Approaches. APHA annual meeting, Washington, DC, Oct., 1994.

International Research on Health and Climate Change: findings from a new WHO Database. 5th International Conference on Global Warming, San Francisco, April, 1994.

Environmental Health Education and Lead Poisoning. APHA annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, Oct., 1993.

Presider and organizer, Health Effects of Global Climate Change. APHA annual meeting, San Francisco, CA, Oct., 1993.

Environmental teratogens, Family Medicine Grand Rounds. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, Feb., 1990.

Health effects of low-level ionizing radiation, Family Medicine Grand Rounds. Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, April, 1990.

Biomarkers in cancer-strain mice. Surgical Forum Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct., 1983.

Exposure pathways of DDT in peregrine falcons, Dept. of Biology Special Seminar. Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 1980.

 

Invited Briefings

Briefing to EPA Administrator Carol Browner, "Climate Change and Public Health Risks, February 19, 1997.

US Senate Roundtable Discussion on Findings of the IPCC Second Assessment Report, Chaired by Senator Lieberman (invited to present health impacts), Washington, June, 1996.

 

Invited Seminars

Climate Neutral Project Speaker Series, Oberlin College Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin, OH, May, 2001 (Invited).

Health Research of Climate Variability –Review of past and ongoing studies for the Scientific Advisory Board of the Office of Global Programs, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Sept, 2000.

Climate, Ecological Change and Public Health: 2-part lecture series for the American Museum of Natural History, New York, Feb, 2000.

Hantavirus Risk and Climate/Ecological Variability. North Carolina Department of Public Health, Greensboro, NC, Feb, 2000.

Climate Change, El Niño and Human Health. Seminar Series of the Environmental and Occupational Health Institute, Rutgers/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, Jan. 2000.

Symposium on the Science of Global Climate Change. University of Iowa, Iowa City, March, 1999.

College of Sciences’ Distinguished Visitor Seminar, Old Dominion University & Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, February, 1999.

National Research Council, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate. Round table presentation for strategic planning of the National Assessment on Climate Change, Washington, June, 1998.

Climate & Health: the North American Perspective. European Centre for Environment and Health, WHO, Rome, May, 1998.

Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds. "El Niño, Climate Change and Infectious Disease." Invitation by Dr. Philip Landrigan, Chairman Community Medicine, Mt Sinai, New York, Jan., 1998.

"Climate Change and Infectious Disease." Center of Global Hydrology and Geography, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Nov. 1997.

Climate Change and Public Health: Overview and Research in Progress. Invitation by Dr. Richard Jackson, Director, National Center for Environmental Health, CDC, Atlanta, April, 1997.

Distinguished Lecture Series, " Climate Change, Health and Integrated Assessment." Global Change Program, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, Dec., 1996.

Global Change and the Americas, Earth Sciences Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Ctr., June, 1996.

Mayor's Special Environmental Lecture & Tulane Ctr Environmental Research Symposium, New Orleans, May, 1996.

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Dept Epidemiology Seminar, May, 1996.

Emerging Diseases & Climate Change, Occupational Med. Dept Seminar, U Maryland, Feb, 1996.

Climate Change and Health, Occupational Health and Environmental Medicine Divisional Seminar, JHU SHPH, Dec., 1995.

Climate Change and Vector-borne Diseases, Vector Biology Forum, MMI, Oct., 1995.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Personal statement of research objectives

A main objective of my research is to focus on population-wide, long-term global environmental health issues; these include global climate change, deforestation, and landuse and urbanization patterns that pose a threat to public health. I am collaborating with mathematical modelers, ecologists, climatologists, economists and a diversity of other public health experts. Integration of the basic sciences will be a significant portion of my risk assessment efforts. Another goal is to promote environmental health teaching in the field of global environmental change.

 

Keywords

Air Pollution
El Niño
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Global Climate Change
Greenhouse Warming
Family Medicine
Integrated Assessment
Internally Displaced Persons (or Environmental Refugees)
Microbiology
Modeling
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Preventive Medicine
Remote sensing
Vector-borne diseases
Water-borne Diseases

 

Personal References

Dr. Joel Scheraga, Director
Global Change Research Program
Office of Research and Development
US Environmental Protection Agency
(202) 564-3385

Professor Anthony McMichael
Department of Epidemiology and Population Science
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
44-171-927-2254

Dr. Dana Focks, Senior Scientist
Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology
US Department of Agriculture
(352) 374-5976

Dr. Rita Colwell, Director
National Science Foundation
(703) 306-1000

 

 

 

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