Dr. Maibach is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at George Mason University and is the Founding Director Emeritus of Mason’s Center for Climate Change Communication. A Principal Investigator of the Yale/George Mason Climate Change in the American Mind polling project, Dr. Maibach also co-led the development of the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, and Climate Matters—a climate reporting resources program that supports TV weathercasters as local climate educators.
Dr. Maibach is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a Member of the both National Academy of Medicine and the Virginia Academy of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. 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.
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 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.