Delta Omega Society

The Professional Society, Delta Omega, is the public health honorary society of accredited schools and programs of public health.  The purpose of the Society is to encourage excellence in student scholarship and research, to recognize academic and professional achievement in the field of public health, and to promote continued effort in public health.  Originally founded in 1924 at The Johns Hopkins University, Delta Omega has more than 31 local chapters in the USA and Puerto Rico.  Our chapter, The Rho Chapter, was founded in 1985.  We also honor our SPHHS charter members listed below.

Election to membership is intended to recognize merits and to encourage further excellence in public health.  There are three categories of nomination:  student, alumnus, faculty.  Besides the Amherst campus nomination for membership includes the MPH on-line program and the Worcester campus.

The Rho Chapter sponsors events on the Amherst campus during the academic year. At the end of March at the Top of the Campus Center, Research Day is featured. This juried poster session allows the graduate students to present their projects to a select faculty committee. The winning poster is then submitted to the annual APHA meeting in November for a national competition sponsored by the national Delta Omega Society and underwritten by the SPHHS. That committee selects the ten best entries for national presentation. For the last two years the SPHHS has been represented in the national competition. See the national web site for the ten posters of the latest year.

Nominations for induction into the society are solicited in the fall semester and reviewed at the annual meeting.  In May the Rho Chapter sponsors an induction ceremony at a luncheon at Stockbridge House, the historical faculty club.

More information can be reviewed on: http://www.deltaomega.org/ or Delta Omega, 1101 15th Street N.W. Suite 910, Washington DC 20005

Welcome to the Rho Chapter of the national Public Health  honor society, Delta Omega!

Sincerely,  Margaret, the President.

Delta Omega Rho Chapter Charter Members 1985
William A Darity, Ph.D., Dean Emeritus SPHHS
Howard A Peters, Ph.D., Emeritus Environmental Science
Robert W Tuthill, Ph.D., Emeritus Epidemiology

Chapter Officers 2007—2009
Margaret E McCarthy, President mem@schoolph.umass.edu
Martha Zorn, Secretary / Treasurer mzorn@schoolph.umass.edu