Description
Provides a comprehensive public health strategy for understanding and managing the spread of infectious diseases. The book offers an integrated approach that covers the important methods underlying the discipline of infectious disease epidemiology, while also illustrating key social and environmental factors.
Eyal Oren, PhD, MS is the director of the School of Public Health at San Diego State University. He is a tenured professor of epidemiology and a core-investigator at the Institute for Behavioral and Community Health, and for many years was a lead infectious disease epidemiologist in one of the largest metropolitan health departments in the United States. He is trained as an infectious disease and social epidemiologist, with expertise in respiratory infections, and has worked at the interface of infectious etiologies and chronic disease outcomes. He has taught infectious disease epidemiology at the undergraduate level and introduction to epidemiology and social epidemiology to graduate students. Heidi E. Brown, PhD, MPH is a tenured associate professor of public health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on environmental influences on vector-borne diseases and on infectious causes of cancer. In addition to a graduate level spatial epidemiology course and a data analysis and communication course, she has been teaching undergraduate epidemiology since 2013.