Faculty

Eyal Oren

Affiliate Professor, Epidemiology

619-594-0964

Education

BA Neurobiology & Behav., Cornell University, 1998
MS Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2004
PhD Epidemiology, University of Washington, 2010

Contact

619-594-0964

San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182
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Bio

Dr. Eyal Oren is the Director of the School of Public Health at San Diego State University. He is a tenured Professor of Epidemiology & Biostatistics. He is also a core-investigator at the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health with both research and practice experience. He is trained as an infectious disease, respiratory and social epidemiologist with particular expertise in respiratory health, and numerous projects in COVID-19, TB, flu, tobacco exposure and asthma. He has also worked at the interface of infectious etiologies and chronic disease outcomes, particularly cancers. He has published 120+ peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and holds an undergraduate degree in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell University and PhD and MS degrees in Epidemiology from the University of Washington. Prior to coming to SDSU, Dr. Oren was faculty in the College of Public Health at the University of Arizona from 2013-2017. He recently published the An Introduction to Infectious Disease Epidemiology: https://connect.springerpub.com/content/book/978-0-8261-5674-7-0#copy_link 

Research Interests

  • Infectious Disease Epidemiology
  • Respiratory Health
  • Surveillance systems
  • Climate Change
  • Pilot Studies
  • Epidemiology in public health practice
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
  • Social epidemiology and health disparities

Recent Publications (PubMed)

First Identification of Naturally Infected Paratriatoma hirsuta: A Vector for Trypanosoma cruzi and Implications for Chagas Disease Transmission.
(2026 Aug 27)
Am J Trop Med Hyg
Lenhart PA, Roachell W, Fathke R, Delgado B, Potter AM, Copeland I, Sanchez F, Solis M, Cline A, Ramnarace M, Lawrence GG, Oren E, Quintana PJ, McBride S, Kerwin C, Lujan IG, Morawo T, Tedrow RE, Pacheco G, Betancourt J, Granados PES

Smoking and vaping trends among active-duty U.S. Navy and Marine Corps personnel: results from the Annual Periodic Health Assessment, 2017-2021.
(2026 Aug 26)
Nicotine Tob Res
Romine JK, Dougherty AL, Oren E, Appolon G, MacGregor AJ

Risk of urologic cancers in patients with hospital-diagnosed recurrent cystitis: a nationwide population-based study.
(2026 Aug 19)
Br J Cancer
Mortensen KK, Søgaard KK, Farkas DK, Oren E, Nørgaard M, Sørensen HT

The Danish Infection Cohort: a resource for population based infectious disease epidemiology.
(2026 May)
Eur J Epidemiol 41(5): 681-691
Cocoros NM, Oren E, Darvalics B, Mortensen K, Jensen HAR, Eliasen MH, Pedersen L, Sørensen HT

Local Flavored Tobacco Bans and Youth Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems Use.
(2026 Apr 3)
JAMA Health Forum 7(4): e260631
Appolon G, Leas E, Pines HA, Strong D, Trinidad DR, Choi SW, Oren E

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