Members are inducted by chapters 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.
There is a one-time induction fee of $50 to join Delta Omega and that covers the person’s lifetime membership in the society.
If you are interested in joining the Delta Omega Honorary Society, please contact the leadership of your local chapter. If your CEPH-accredited school or program does not have a chapter, then click here to see how you can establish one.
The national guidelines for yearly inductions are as follows:
Students 
- Each chapter may induct no more than twenty percent (20%) of eligible graduate candidates and 20% of eligible undergraduate candidates in a given calendar year. The selection committee will give particular attention to academic excellence and shall take into consideration commitment to the public health profession.
- In order to be eligible for regular membership in the Society, a student shall:
- intend, so far as can be ascertained, to follow a career in public health AND
- have completed more than half of their program credits (graduate level students) or completed more than half of their upper division credits (undergraduate students)
Faculty
Each year chapter may induct up to the greater of 2 faculty or the equivalent of 3% of faculty FTE (sum of FTEs in CEPH Tables E1 (primary instructional) and E2 (other instructional)) most recently reported to CEPH (self-study or annual report).
Even though the limits are based on faculty numbers reported to CEPH, chapters may consider induction of all categories of faculty associated with the unit of accreditation, including adjunct and part-time.
Each chapter shall establish selection criteria consistent with its institutional criteria for the recognition and promotion of its faculty.
Alumni
Each chapter may induct graduates of the school or program of public health whose work in the practice of public health would serve as a model for future graduates
Chapters may induct graduate alumni members in an amount not to exceed half of the number of graduate student inductees.
Chapters may induct undergraduate alumni members in an amount not to exceed half the number of undergraduate student inductees each year.
Honorary
The first year that a chapter is active it may induct three honorary members. However, every year after the chapter may only induct one honorary member. Honorary membership should only be conferred upon persons possessing exceptional qualifications and those who have attained meritorious distinction in the field of public health.