Membership has its privileges

The UF is the latest school to establish a chapter of Delta Omega, the honorary society for graduate studies in public health. UF’s chapter joins 60 other chapters at public health-accredited schools and programs.

Membership offers several opportunities for schools and individuals, said UF’s Delta Omega chapter president Nabih Asal, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ department of epidemiology and biostatistics. The national office of Delta Omega sponsors faculty curricula awards, a student poster session at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, a mentorship network for students, and access to classic public health texts that are out of print or not widely available, including books by Florence Nightingale and John Snow, the father of epidemiology.