Amir H. Wolfe,^* Jonathan A. Patz<sup>**


*</sup>Amir H. Wolfe is currently a resident in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his AB degree from the University of Chicago, majoring in biology and economics, and attended Northwestern University Medical School on an US Navy scholarship, and served for 6 years as a Naval Flight Surgeon. He completed his MPH at Johns Hopkins University in 2001. His address: Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. awolfe@jhsph.edu
^**Jonathan A. Patz, MD (Case Western Reserve), MPH (Johns Hopkins), is board-certified in both occupational/environmental medicine and in family medicine, and serves as Director for the Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Assistant Professor in the school's Department of Environmental Health Sciences, with joint faculty appointments in the departments of Epidemiology, international Health, Microbiology, and Medicine. Since 1998, he has served as Co-chair of the Health Sector for the US National Assessment on Climate Variability and Change. Since 1994, he has been lead author on four United Nations assessment reports, including the Second and Third Assessment Reports of the intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and WHO monograph on climate change. He is also Co-Editor-in-Chief for Global Change and Human Health. From 1996–2000, he was principal investigator for the largest US multi-institutional study on climate change health risks, has published over 50 papers on the subject and has briefed the US Congress, Clinton Administration, and federal agency leaders. His areas of research investigation include effects of climate change on air pollution and water-and vector- borne diseases, as well as the link between deforestation and resurgent diseases in the Amazon. His address: Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Room W7517, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. jpatz@jhsph.edu