About the Authors

Jonathan A. Patz

patz@wisc.edu

Affiliations Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment (SAGE), Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America, Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

Madeleine C. Thomson

Affiliations International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), Columbia University, Palisades, New York, United States of America, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JAP and MCT served as guest editors on PLOS Medicine’s Special Issue on Climate Change and Health.