Black Health Innovations
By the Numbers
Black Health Firsts
"N"spirations
Potpourri
100
Dr. Charles Drew was key in the development of "banks" for this type of substance, key in minimizing deaths in WWII
What is Blood
100
This is the number of patents that Otis Boykon obtained, including one that improved the efficacy of the pace maker. Its also the prefix to a popular set of horror movies set in England after a virus outbreak
What is 28
100
Black Men in this city created the first paramedic service
Where is Pittsburgh?
100
Dr. Myra Logan became the first Black woman to perform open heart surgery, doing so in this city's Harlem Hospital
What is NYC
100
Pitt's Dr. Bennet Omalu looked into the brains of deceased Steelers player's to detect this condition
What is CTE
200
The first Black Woman to get a PhD in Chemistry, Dr Marie Daly, made techniques to visualize these proteins that DNA are wound around
What are Histones
200
In this year, the year JFK was assassinated, Dr. Ruth Ella Moore became the first black woman to investigate the gut microbiome's properties, specifically of cockroaches.
What is 1963
(She also was Howard's first ever female dean, and the first black woman to get a natural sciences PhD)
200
Dr Daniel Hale Williams is regarded as the first black person to perform this type of operation?
What is the first open heart surgery (pericardium wound repair)
200
Dr. WEB DuBois, the famed sociologist and early Black public health advocate, helped to found this organization to achieve his goals
What is the NAACP
200
George Washington Carver tried to use a mixture creosote (tar residue) and peanuts to attempt to cure this common respiratory disease, often called consumption
What is Tuberculosis
300
Enslaved populations in Boston utilized a technique called variolation (rubbing infected scabs onto healthy people to inoculate them), to minimize casualties from an outbreak of what disease in 1708
what is smallpox
300
In this year of the battle of the bulge, and FDR's final election, Dr Viven Thomas became the first to perform his namesake shunt in a child, in order to cure the tetraology of fallot
What is 1944
300
Dr. Jane Cook Wright became the first black woman to lead this society, after conducting research on using human tissue to test chemotherapy drugs
What is the American Cancer society
300
Dr. Mae Jemision became the first black physician (and woman) to go to space with this organization
Who is NASA
300
Dr Alma Hayden, the first black woman to work at the FDA, investigated and disproved Krebiozen's role as this type of drug in the wake of the thalilomide controversey
What is a cancer cure/ anti carcinogen
400
Dr Percy Julian was noted for using stigmasterol and sitosterol to synthesize these type of hormones
What are human reproductive hormones (testosterone and progesterone)
400
Dr Samuel L Kountz perfromed this many kidney transplants, a record at the time of his death in 1981. Its also the number of stocks on the Standard and Poors S and P index
What is 500
400
Bill Clinton appointed this woman, the former Arkansas Health Director, to become the first Black Surgeon General, where she focused on reproductive health
Who is Dr. Jocelyn Elders
400
Dr. Joseph Nriagu, a graduate of this country's University of Ibadan, has researched environmental polliution injustice, and has theorized that lead poisoning caused the downfall of the Roman Empire
What is Nigeria
400
Dr Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman to receive a medical degree, worked with this government agency in order to help alleviate the plight of the newly emancipated slaves
What is the freedmens bureau?
500
Dr. Ernest Just discovered the "fast block" to this process in fertilized zygotes. If this process is not blocked, a zygote could become a triploid and become unviable
What is polyspermy (or more than one sperm fertilizing an egg)
500
This is the year that Dr. Bill Jenkins first tried to halt the Tuskegee experiment after hearing about its pernicious effects. It was also the year that RFK was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan
what is 1968
500
This man was the first Black Surgeon in the US Army during the Civil War, and became the first Black Medical faculty member at Howard University. He also cofounded omega psi phi
Who is Dr Alexander Augusta
500
This ancient Sudanese civilization used fermented grain from streptomyces filled soil, to make an antibiotic beer filled with tetracycline
Who are the Nubians
500
Nurses given this "holy" nickname, came from the south came to Sea View Hospital Staten Island in 1929 to help mitigate TB outbreaks. In 1951 they served as data collectors for the trial proving isoniazid's efficacy in curing the disease.
Who are the Black Angels