Omayra Ortega
Omayra Ortega
Professor Ortega is trained broadly with undergraduate degrees from Pomona College in Mathematics and Music, MS and PhD (2008) degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences from the University of Iowa, and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Iowa. She is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at Sonoma State University.
Topics covered
Professor Ortega’s research using statistical and mathematical tools to approach problems in epidemiology to mitigate emerging issues in healthcare. In particular, she is interested in equity issues across the public health spectrum, including in the US as well as in developing nations.
Relevant work
F. Agusto, A. Goldberg, O. Ortega, J. Ponce, S. Zaytseva, S. Sindi and S. Blower, How Do Interventions Impact Malaria Dynamics Between Neighboring Countries? A Case Study with Botswana and Zimbabwe. Using Mathematics to Understand Biological Complexity, 2020.
Agusto, F.B., Erovenko, I.V., Fulk, A., Qays, A., Romero-Alvarez, D., Ponce, J., Sindi, S., Ortega, O., Saint Onge, J., and Townsend Peterson, A. To isolate or not to isolate: the impact of changing behavior on COVID-19 transmission. BMC Public Health 2022.