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Delta Omega Scholarship Endowment and Competition

The Delta Omega Scholarship Endowment was established by members of the Alpha Chapter of the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society to promote outstanding scholarship and research by providing support to individual students whose research proposals demonstrate merit. Only currently registered students or postdoctoral fellows from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health can apply for up to $1,000 to defray all or part of the cost of a research project or scholarly activity.

Each year the Chapter accepts applications from the School's students or postdoctoral fellows. All applications are reviewed competitively by a panel of society members, who will assign priority scores based on a judgment of each project's feasibility, scientific or scholarly merit, and significance for public health. The scholarship application process opens each spring. Please check back in 2010 for more information.

The Scholarship Endowment is supported entirely by dues-paying members of the Chapter, which seeks to promote excellence in public health scholarship and research. In 1993, the Chapter created a Lifetime Member Category that generates funds for the Endowment each year. The Lifetime Member Category allows members the opportunity to waive their obligation of $50 for annual dues by paying a one-time fee of $500 that goes directly to the Endowment.

Questions regarding the Delta Omega Scholarship Endowment and Lifetime Member Category may be directed to the Office of External Affairs at 410-955-5194, or email Philippa Moore at pmoore@jhsph.edu

2010 Delta Omega Scholarship Competition

Competition Rules

Competition Application

2009 Scholarship Awardees

PRACTICE

• Brandon Brown--Acceptability of HPV vaccine in Female Sex Workers

APPLIED

• Kristen Gibson--Tangential Flow Ultrafiltration and Molecular Detection of Surrogates and Pathogens in Large-Volume Environmental Water Samples
• Raydel Valdes Salgado--Changes in intensity of daily tobacco consumption in the US. An application of multilevel and longitudinal analysis to the Tobacco Use Supplement of the Current Population Survey 1992-2007

MEASUREMENT

• Kyla Hayford--Using Oral Fluid Samples to Validate Immunization Coverage of Infants in Bangladesh: A Non-Invasive Approach to Identifying Measles Susceptible Children Missed by Conventional Surveillance
• Shegufta Shefa Sikder--Maternal Mortality in Rural Northwest Bangladesh - Dysfunction, delays and solutions: A critical evaluation of underlying pathways leading to death

2008 Awardees

The five Awardees below, in three categories, were chosen from 75 impressive submissions.

PRACTICE

• Pammie Crawford, Telehealth Providing Mental Health and Addiction Care for Native Populations:Best Practices Gleaned from the US and Canadian Experiences

APPLIED

• Beth Feingold, Using Satellite Remote Sensing to Map Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Developing a Ground-Truthed Tool for Exposure Assessment Studies
• Godfree Mlambo, Development of an animal model for pre-clinical evaluation of Pfs48/45 based transmission blocking vaccine.

MEASURED

• Jing Feng, Measuring the association between local food environment and childhood obesity
• Thoai Ngo, Investigating the Spread HIV-1 along Heroin Trafficking Routes in Northern Vietnam and Its Borders

2007 Awardees

The four Awardees below were chosen from 44 excellent submissions.

• Anitha Moorthy, MSc, PhD candidate in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology - Antiretroviral Chemoprophylaxis, Drug Resistance, and Immune Reconstitution in Subtype C HIV-1 Infected Children
• Konstantinos Tsilidis, RN, MPH, PhD candidate, MHS candidate in Epidemiology - Measuring colonic inflammation and epithelial damage: a novel histological score and correlated blood, dietary, and lifestyle biomarkers.
• Lori Uscher-Pines, MSc, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management - Health Impacts of Relocation Following Disaster: A Study of the Older Victims of Hurricane Katrina.
• Amanda L. Vogel, ScM, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management - Service-Learning Programs in Health Professions Education: What Contributes to their Sustainability and what is their Long-Term Impact?

2006 Awardees

The five Awardees below were chosen from 40submissions from 10 departments and 4 degree programs

• Xiadong Cai, PhD candidate in International Health - Impact of Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization in Vietnam
• Judith Easterbook, PhD candidate in Molec. Microbio. & Imm. - Regulatory T Cells Mediating Seoul Virus Persistence in Norway Rats
• Gabrielle Hunter, MHS candidate in International Health - Effects of Water Availability and Education on the Hygiene Behavior of Residents in a Peri-Urban Community in Lima, Peru
• Sang Kim, PhD candidate in Epidemiology - "Center Effect" in Kidney Transplantation: A New Look at an Old Problem
• Rachel Singer, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management - Mobilizing the Masses:Potential for Universal Coverage in Maryland

An abstract or summary for each of these awarded projects is available via the link in their titles above, and in the Delta Omega Archives.

2005 Awardees

Nhan Tran- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Visibility Enhancement Materials at Preventing Motorcycle Crashes in Malaysia
Elizabeth Edsall- Do the News Media Matter in Health Policy? Exploring the Construction of Print Media Coverage of Tobacco Excise Tax Initiatives in Six States and the Implications of Coverage for Policy Change
Ann Miller- Cluster Randomized Trial of a Tuberculosis Active Case Finidng Intervention in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

2004 Awardees

Keiko Asao- Genetic Variations in Three Transcription Factors and Two Insulin Resistance-related Phenotypes: Type 2 Diabetes among the General Population and Lipodystrophy among HIV-infected Women under Protease Inhibitor Use
Justine Kavle- Blood Loss at Delivery and Postpartum Iron Status in Zanzibari Women
Kristin Nicodemus- Based Transmission Disequilibrium Testing for Bipolar Disorder-Associated Haplotypes in Parent-Child Trios
Ilesh Patel- Near Vision Impairment in Tanzania
Bahie Mary Rassekh- Administering Gentamicin to Neonates with Sepsis in Bangladesh: Assessing Differences between Nurses and CHW's using Pre-filled Uniject versus a Standard Syringe and Needle

2003 Awardees

Julie Blum- Regulation of Estrogen Receptor Expression in Human Breast Cancer
   Anita Chandra- Exploring Factors that Influence Adolescent Mental Health Service Use
   Betty Doane- Covariate-Based Linkage Analysis and Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping in the HLA Region for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
   Mahoobeh Safaeian- Evaluating HPV Detection in Self-Collected Vaginal Swabs for Cervical Neoplasia Screening
   Erica Jane Sessle- Obstacles to HIV Testing Among Antenatal Clinic Attendees

2002 Awardees

David Chang-
Shih-Chen Chang-
Peyvand Khaleghian-
Sonia Singh-
Margaret Weden-

2001 Awardees

Rohit Chitale-
Alain Labrique-
Anne Rimoin-
Scott Shone-
Tien Wong-

2000 Awardees

Priya Duggal- Host Genetic Predispositions to HIV/AIDS
Denys Lau- Risk Factors and Health Consequences Associated with Inappropriate Drug Use Among Geriatric Nursing Home Residents
Nora Lee- Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Birth Weight in Beijing and Changchun, China
   Joshua Shinoff- Evaluating the Immune Response of Infants and Young Children to RSV F and G Glycoproteins and Its Application to the Development of a Safe and Effective RSV Vaccine
Halcyon Skinner- Pancreatic Cancer and Mutations in the Hereditary Hemochromatosis

1999 Awardees

Alison P. Klein- Genetic Epidemiology of Pancreas Cancer
Garrett L. Mehl- Short Term Impact of Sri Lanka's Complete Tobacco Advertising Ban
Thomas R. Ulrich- Endocarditis and Transmission of Bartonella elizabethae
   Brad C. Astor- Fibrinogen as a Risk Factor for Vascular Access Complications
   Katarzyna Piech- A Pilot study for an Iron and Zinc Supplementation Trial in Mexico City
   Tomlin J. Paul- Stroke and CVD Mortality and Infectious Disease in the Americas
   Hanh H. La- Do Steroid Hormones Prolong Oncogenic HPV Infection?