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 Areas

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)

Association of race, ethnicity, and housing stability with COVID-19 testing method by investigators in underserved populations 2020-2023.
(2025)
Front Public Health 13(): 1605167
Woodhouse EW, Veldman T, Lydon E, Wruck L, Petzold E, Drain P, Oren E, Kiene SM, McDaniels-Davidson C, Gwynn L, Perreira KM, Harper B, Tillekeratne LG, Naggie S, McClain MT, Woods CW
Health worker perspectives on, and health system-level facilitators and barriers to early infant male circumcision for HIV prevention in a traditionally non-circumcising community, Northeastern Uganda: a cross-sectional qualitative study.
(2025 Aug 18)
BMC Health Serv Res 25(1): 1099
Ediau M, Brodine S, Brouwer KC, Raj A, Oren E, Kiene SM
COVID Prevention Program: Rationale and methodology of a tailored behavioral intervention to prevent household and community spread of COVID-19 among Latinos.
(2025 Sep)
Contemp Clin Trials 156(): 108046
Crespo NC, Godino J, Behar A, Dionicio P, de la Torre CL, Fraga K, Santoscoy M, Elder JP, Oren E, Lin CD, Arredondo EM, Madanat H, Ramers CB
Diagnosis and Management of Community-acquired Pneumonia. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.
(2025 Jul 18)
Am J Respir Crit Care Med
Jones BE, Ramirez JA, Oren E, Soni NJ, Sullivan LR, Restrepo MI, Musher DM, Erstad BL, Pickens C, Vaughn VM, Helgeson SA, Crothers K, Metlay JP, Bissell Turpin BD, Cao B, Chalmers JD, Dela Cruz CS, Gendlina I, Hojat LS, Laguio-Vila M, Liang SY, Waterer GW, Paine M, Hawkins C, Wilson K
The relationship between living in poverty and youth COVID-19 testing in underserved populations.
(2025 Aug)
Ann Epidemiol 108(): 99-105
D'Agostino EM, Cyr DD, Wruck L, Victoria Ferraris M, Gwynn L, Coller RJ, Mast DK, Schuster JE, Goldman JL, McDaniels-Davidson C, Kiene SM, Oren E, Perreira KM
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