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What is Delta Omega?
The Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health was founded in 1924 at Johns Hopkins University within the School of Hygiene and Public Health to promote the graduate study of public health, and to recognize outstanding achievement in the new field. Click here for information on the history of Delta Omega.
Members are inducted to the chapter through a highly-selective process that assesses their outstanding performance and devotion to the field. To maintain the credibility of this prestigious society, chapters are limited in the number of members they may induct each year.
Chapter Officers 2022 -2024
Kelly Erickson, MPH
DO Title: President
Graduating Year: MPH in 2014
Kelly Erickson graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2009 with majors in Biology and French and a minor in Chemistry. In 2014, she graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health with a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. In the years after graduating with her MPH, she has been doing mostly pediatric clinical research in various areas, such as cardiology, infectious disease, radiology and others. Her newest project at work includes a nephrology study for atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS). Kelly really enjoys this research and believes it will have a positive impact on clinical outcomes for patients in the future.
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Ami Sedani
DO Title: Member at Large
Graduating Year: MPH in 2016
Ami Sedani is currently a doctoral candidate in epidemiology within the department of biostatistics and epidemiology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She earned her MPH with a concentration in epidemiology from UNMC in 2016. While completing her master’s degree, she was a nutrition educator for AmeriCorps in partnership with Nebraska Extension, interned at the Douglas County Health Department, and participated in the Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) program which allowed her to complete her capstone project in Tanzania. After completion of her MPH, she became a chronic disease epidemiologist at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services. Ami is expected to defend for dissertation in May 2023.
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Kelli Gribben, MPH
DO Title: Member at Large
Graduating Year: MPH in 2011, PhD in 2021
From a young age I knew I wanted to help people and I was interested in science and health. I stumbled upon epidemiology while taking a field epidemiology class as a biology major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I now credit that exposure to epidemiology as a defining moment where I saw how I could combine all my interests into a career path. As an MPH Epi student at the UNMC College of Public Health, I learned the fundamental concepts and skills I would need to be a successful epidemiologist in public health practice and learned about the research process. I went on to work as a CDC/CSTE Applied Epidemiology Fellow at the state health department in Denver, Colorado. Through this valuable experience I contributed to several programs under the mentorship of a CDC state-assigned epidemiologist and was exposed to several different topic areas, mainly chronic disease, and oral health epidemiology. I returned to Omaha and worked at a local research institution before returning to UNMC in 2017. I recently graduated with my doctorate in epidemiology and am currently pursuing an academic position.
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Leslie Scofield, MPH
DO Title: Member at Large
Graduating Year: MPH in 2014
Leslie Scofield is an Instructor at the College of Public Health and Director of First Responder Education for the Center for Preparedness Education located at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Additionally, she is the Director of Education and Outreach for the Public Health Emergency Preparedness Professionals Association (PHEPPA).
Leslie’s responsibilities involve serving as an instructor in the Department of Epidemiology at the College of Public Health, teaching Disaster Preparedness and Response courses. In her expanded roles, she in involved in identifying gaps in knowledge and training and creating educational solutions for Health Care, Public Health, Law Enforcement, EMS, Emergency Management and Fire personnel as well as targeted outreach to public health emergency preparedness professionals. In addition, Leslie the regional training center coordinator for the National Disaster Life Support™ regional training center at UNMC.
Leslie has served on the Board of Directors for the Public Health Association of Nebraska (PHAN) since 2018 and recently assumed the role as President of the Board in 2022. Leslie holds a bachelor’s degree in Non-Profit Management from University of Nebraska Omaha and a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Nebraska Medical Center. You may reach her by email at lsccofield@unmc.edu.
