Cindy Prins, PHD, MPH, CIC, CPH, is a clinical associate professor of Epidemiology in the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions. Dr. Prins received her PhD in Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Molecular Biology from Penn State University in 2000, where she studied replication of JC virus. She completed her post-doctoral training at the University of Florida, focusing on regulation of vaccinia virus transcription elongation. Concurrently, she earned her MPH in the Epidemiology concentration from the College of Public Health and Health Professions at UF in the fall of 2006. After this she worked in Infection Prevention and Control at UF Health Shands Hospital.

Dr. Prins joined the Epidemiology faculty in the fall of 2010. Her research interests include the prevention of healthcare-associated infections, including those caused by multi-drug resistant organisms, and compliance with vaccine recommendations. Dr. Prins is Board Certified in Infection Control (CIC) and Public Health (CPH). She was inducted as an alumni member of the Beta Upsilon chapter of Delta Omega in 2011.

Dr. Michael Thompson is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Public Health Sciences at UNC Charlotte.  He directs its CAHME-accredited and nationally ranked Master of Health Administration (MHA) Program and its Health Informatics and Analytics programs. He has over 20 years’ experience in actively developing, leading, and seeing accredited public health and health administration programs domestically and internationally.

Dr. Thompson earned his doctorate in public health (DrPH) in 2002 from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, specializing in Health Services Research and Evaluation.  His professional practice focuses on competency-based workforce development and assessment as well as community-driven programmatic interventions. He currently serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Health and external advisory board member at the American University of Armenia, Past efforts include supporting public health and health administration program development in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Lebanon, among other locations.

In 2002, Dr. Thompson was inducted into the Delta Omega Alpha Chapter as a student.  Dr. Thompson was among the faculty to found UNC Charlotte’s Beta Phi Chapter immediately after its initial CEPH accreditation in 2009.  He has served as the Chapter’s Delegate and been active in Delta Omega national efforts since.

Keith J. Zullig is Professor and Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Associate Dean for Departmental Affairs at the West Virginia University (WVU) School of Public Health. He earned his M.S.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health and a B.A. from SUNY Plattsburgh. His research has been supported by the USDOE, SAMHSA, CDC, and NIH. He has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Zullig is a Fellow of the American School Health Association and American Academy of Health Behavior. He presently serves as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Applied Research in Quality of Life, American Journal of Health Behavior, and Health Behavior Research in addition to the Board of Health for the Monongalia County, West Virginia Health Department. Dr. Zullig is a member of Delta Omega Mu Chapter and serves as the founding faculty mentor for the WVU Gamma Mu Chapter.

Alex Reibstein is a dual degree MD/MPH student at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. In 2011, he graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. He later completed a post-baccalaureate in pre-medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He plans to pursue a medical/public health career within the field of Internal Medicine and anticipates graduation in May 2024.

During the height of COVID, Alex served as co-regional team leader for Connect for COVID Philadelphia. They raised approximately $5,500 and distributed 200 new and used video-enabled smart devices to 35 different hospitals and healthcare facilities in the Philadelphia area to help connect COVID patients with loved ones and healthcare services during the lockdown. He is also involved in research addressing implicit bias in his medical school curriculum. His primary interests in public health include expanding access to care for minority and disadvantaged populations and preventative and lifestyle medicine. He is interested in policy and advocacy and is passionate about incorporating public health education into medical education.

Mitchel A. Rosen, PhD, CHES is Director of the Center for Public Health Workforce Development and Associate Professor in the Rutgers School of Public Health, Urban and Global Public Health Department.  Dr. Rosen’s interests include workforce development issues for public health professionals, specifically in the concentrations of occupational health and safety, public health capacity development, and emergency preparedness.  Dr. Rosen develops capacity for vulnerable populations to provide safety and health education in their native language. Dr. Rosen focuses his research on impact of training on workplace practice.

Dr. Rosen has been active in the leadership of the Alpha Omega Chapter since 2016, and served as Chapter President since 2018.

Jeanelle Sugimoto-Matsuda, DrPH, MS, is an Associate Professor at the Office of Public Health Studies, in the Thompson School of Social Work and Public Health, at the University of Hawaiʽi at Mānoa (UHM).  She is also adjunct faculty with the Department of Psychiatry, in the John A. Burns School of Medicine at UHM.  Dr. Sugimoto-Matsuda received her Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) in Community Based Translational Research from UHM, and concurrently completed a Certificate in Public Policy Studies.  She was inducted into the Gamma Chapter of Delta Omega at UHM upon graduation in 2013, and became Chapter President in 2019.

Dr. Sugimoto-Matsuda‘s research interests focus on mental and behavioral health, including suicide prevention, bullying and violence prevention, and health policy/advocacy and systems-building.  She is part of the Steering (Leadership) Committee of the Prevent Suicide Hawaiʻi Taskforce, the State’s network of agencies and community members leading suicide prevention, intervention, and post-vention work.  She is also a Board Member of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Hawaiʻi Chapter.  Dr. Sugimoto-Matsuda is currently Principal Investigator of the Hawaii’s Caring Systems Initiative to Prevent Youth Suicide (funded through SAMHSA’s GLS Program), and also Director of Hawaii’s Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training network.