We spoke to Professor Jonathan Patz about the Tyler Prize Laureate 2022, Sir Andy Haines, who was awarded for his impactful work in Planetary Health, climate change and human health.
Jonathan Patz is a member of the Tyler Prize Executive Committee and Director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. For 15 years, he served as a lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (or IPCC). Jonathan Patz has written more than 200 scientific papers with more than 100 peer-reviewed, a textbook addressing the health effects of global environmental change and co‐edited the Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (2011).
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH
John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment
Vilas Distinguished Professor
Director, UW-Madison Planetary Health Scholars Program
Nelson Institute, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE)
& Department of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine & Public Health
University of Wisconsin
Member: National Academy of Medicine
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Transcript:
For a long time, health professionals and health scientists didn't understand the link between climate change and human health. Climate change was always viewed as an environmental issue that dealt with biodiversity and maybe water resources, but it was not mainstream to public health. It was Andy Haines who wrote the first papers that identified climate change as a serious risk for public health. It was not accepted for a long time, but now today we recognize that climate change is mainstream for public health and, in fact, an existential threat to our survival. So, we've gone full circle from climate change being at the margins, to climate change really being front and center in disease prevention and health promotion.
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