Ed Maibach, Ph.D., MPH, is a distinguished University Professor at George Mason University and Director of Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication (Mason 4C). He is a Principal Investigator of the Yale/George Mason Climate Change in the American Mind polling project, and a co-developer of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, an educational initiative that currently involves 52 national medical societies, and Climate Matters—a climate reporting resources program that supports TV weathercasters as local climate educators. In 2018, Dr. Maibach was appointed a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, he was awarded the Beck Family Presidential Medal of Excellence in Research and Scholarship—Mason’s top research honor—as well as the Stephen H. Schneider Award for Outstanding Climate Science Communication (with Anthony Leiserowitz). In 2021, news agency Thompson Reuters identified him as one of the world’s 10 most influential scientists working on climate change. He was elected as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2022, and as a Member of the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine in 2023. Dr. Maibach earned his PhD in communication science at Stanford University (1990), his MPH at San Diego State University (1983), and his BA at University of California, San Diego (1980). He previously has had the pleasure to serve as Associate Director of the National Cancer Institute, and Worldwide Director of Social Marketing at Porter Novelli, and he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Climate and Health Alliance.