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Delta Omega is an international honorary society for studies in public health. It was founded in 1924 at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] The society has regular and honorary members.[2] Regular members include students, faculty, and alumni of institutions with chapters.[2] Honorary members are inducted by the national officers.[2] Following are some of Delta Omega's notable members.

Regular members

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Nation Chapter and initiation date Notability References
Mary Amdur Beta, 1953 Toxicologist and public health researcher who worked primarily on pollution [3]
Haroutune Armenian Alpha, 1985 President of the American University of Armenia [3]
Timothy D. Baker Alpha, 1975 Professor of international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [4][5]
Trevor Beard Zeta medical doctor, best known for his work in the 1960s to eradicate echinococcosis
Bertha C. Boschulte Delta, 1951 General Services Director of the Department of Health, Danish Virgin Islands [5]
Jane A. Cauley Omicron, 1990 Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and an associate dean for research at the University of Pittsburgh [6]
David Celentano Alpha, 1995 Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [6]
Raphael E. Cuomo Sigma, 2014 Biomedical scientist and associate professor at the University of California, San Diego [6]
Barbara Curbow Alpha, 1998 Professor and chair of the Department of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland [6][7]
Andrew Paul Feinberg Alpha, 1981 Director of the Center for Epigenetics and professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine [8]
Ralph R. Frerichs 1970 professor emeritus of epidemiology at the University of California, Los Angeles
Stephen Gange Alpha, 2002 professor of epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine [9][10]
Carol Garrison Theta President of the University of Alabama at Birmingham [9][11]
Helene D. Gayle Alpha, 1999 President of Spelman College and CEO of the Chicago Community Trust [9]
Maura L. Gillison Alpha, 2001 medical oncologist and molecular epidemiologist credited with establishing a connection between HPV and oral cancer [9]
Sherita Hill Golden Alpha, 2000 Professor of endocrinology and metabolism at Johns Hopkins University [9][12]
Céline Gounder Alpha, 2000 Physician and medical journalist who specializes in infectious diseases and global health [9][13]
Irva Hertz-Picciotto Theta, 1998 professor and chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of California, Davis [14]
Edgar Erskine Hume Alpha Physician and major general in the United States Army Medical Corps [14]
Elizabeth A. Hunt Alpha, 2002 Pediatric intensivist, critical-care specialist, and director of the Johns Hopkins Medicine Simulation Center [14]
Adnan Hyder Alpha, 1998 Professor of global health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health [14]
Ji Jiafu Alpha, 2022 Surgical oncologist and professor in gastrointestinal surgery at Peking University [15]
Renee M. Johnson Theta, 2005 Associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [16]
Kami Kandola Alpha, 1997 Chief Medical Officer for the Northwest Territories, Canada [17][18]
Brian King Gamma Lambda, 2014 Director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Tobacco Products [19]
Thomas D. Kirsch Alpha, 2006 professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Whiting School of Engineering [17]
Shiriki Kumanyika Alpha, 1984 Emeritus Professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine [17]
Lisa Morrissey LaVange Theta, 1998 Professor and chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health [20]
Ruth Link-Gelles Theta, 2016 Epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a commander in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. [20]
Beaufort Longest Omicron, 1995 Professor emeritus of health policy and management at the University of Pittsburgh [20]
Marie McCormick Alpha, 1995 Pediatrician and professor at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health [21]
Anne B. Newman Omicron, 2005 Chair of population health science at the University of Pittsburgh [22]
Adeiyewunmi Osinubi Tau, 2014 Documentary filmmaker and an emergency medicine resident physician at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine [23][24]
Jonas Salk Delta, 1947 Virologist and medical researcher who invented the polio vaccine [25][26]
Dale Sandler Alpha, 2012 Chief of the epidemiology branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [26]
Moyses Szklo Alpha, 1980 Professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins University and editor-in-chief emeritus of the American Journal of Epidemiology [26]
Daniel Webster Alpha, 2005 Health policy researcher at the Center for Gun Policy and Research [27]
Paul Whelton Alpha Physician and scientist who has contributed to the fields of hypertension and kidney disease epidemiology [27]
Calvin Zippin Zeta, 1954 Professor Emeritus in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the UCSF School of Medicine [28]

Honorary members

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Nation Chapter and initiation date Notability References
Sara Josephine Baker Honorary, 1924 Physician who contributed to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of New York City [29]
John M. Barry Honorary, 2009 author and professor at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine [29]
Regina Benjamin Honorary, 2011 Surgeon General of the United States [29]
Peter Buxtun Honorary, 2019 Epidemiologist with the United States Public Health Service who exposed Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment [29]
Charles V. Chapin Honorary, 1927 Superintendent of health for Providence, Rhode Island; professor at Brown University; and public health researcher [29]
Mandy Cohen Honorary, 2024 Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [29]
Hugh S. Cumming Honorary, 1929 Surgeon General of the United States [29]
Barbara Ann DeBuono Honorary, 2008 New York State Commissioner of Health and professional lecturer at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health [29]
Anthony Fauci Honorary, 2022 Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president [29]
Kristine Gebbie Honorary, 2010 public health official and professor at the Flinders University School of Nursing & Midwifery [29]
Mona Hanna Honorary, 2018 Pediatrician, professor, and public health advocate who exposed Flint water crisis [29]
Herbert Hoover Honorary, 1929 President of the United States [29]
Wilson Jameson Honorary medical doctor and the ninth Chief Medical Officer of England [29]
George Walter McCoy Honorary, 1930 medical doctor, international expert on leprosy, and director of the National Institute of Health [29]
Vivek Murthy Honorary, 2023 Vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States [29]
Arthur Newsholme Honorary, 1924 public health expert who promoted local health programs and the national health insurance in while the Medical Officer with the national Local Government Board for England and Wales [29]
William Hallock Park Honorary bacteriologist and laboratory director at the New York City Board of Health, Division of Pathology, Bacteriology, and Disinfection [29]
Thomas Parran Honorary, 1938 Surgeon General of the United States who oversaw the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment and Guatemala syphilis experiment [29]
John Edward Porter Honorary, 2000 United States House of Representatives [29]
Watson Smith Rankin Honorary, 1924 Dean of the School of Medicine at Wake Forest College and North Carolina’s first full-time state health officer [29][30][31]
Mazÿck P. Ravenel Honorary, 1931 Professor of preventive medicine at the University of Missouri and president of the American Public Health Association [29]
Frederick F. Russell Honorary, 1929 Brigadier General in the U.S. Army, physician, and virologist who perfected a typhoid vaccine [29]
David Satcher Honorary, 1998 Surgeon General of the United States [29]
Bryan Stevenson Honorary, 2021 Social justice activist, professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative [29]
Shannon Watts Honorary, 2019 Gun safety activist [29]
Gretchen Whitmer Honorary, 2020 Governor of Michigan [29]

References

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