Public Health Pioneers
This legendary physician removed the handle off the Broad Street pump in 1854, stopping a cholera outbreak and proving that water could transmit disease.
Who is John Snow?
In this animated Disney movie, a lovable, inflated healthcare companion robot named Baymax helps a young robotics prodigy save the city of San Fransokyo.
What is Big Hero 6?
This body of water forms Evanston's eastern border and is a popular scenic running and walking spot.
What is Lake Michigan?
Pulling all-nighters in this campus library impairs working memory consolidation and prefrontal cortex function faster than procedural memory.
What is Mudd?
Your parents were wrong: going out into cold weather with wet hair does not give you this common viral infection, which is actually caused by rhinoviruses.
What is the common cold?
This famous French chemist developed the process of heating liquids to kill harmful bacteria, revolutionizing food safety and germ theory.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital frequently tackles real-world bioethics cases, such as managing organ allocation queues governed by this national transplant network.
What is UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing)?
This historic dividing line and major thoroughfare in Evanston historically reflects stark disparities in life expectancy and median household income.
What is Main Street (or Dodge Ave)?
This student-run service provides free, confidential late-night rides across the Evanston campus.
What is SafeRide?
Swallowing this sticky, favorite childhood sweet does not mean it stays trapped in your digestive tract for seven years; your body processes and eliminates it just like any other food.
What is chewing gum?
Known as the mother of modern nursing, she radically improved sanitary conditions and mortality rates at military hospitals during the Crimean War.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This dystopian TV series based on a Margaret Atwood novel features a totalitarian regime built entirely around severe environmental fertility collapse.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
Local community health centers in the area rely heavily on this federal designation to provide comprehensive primary care regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
What is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC)?
Located on the Chicago campus, this historic hospital partner hosts major clinical rotations and medical research facilities for Northwestern students.
What is Northwestern Memorial Hospital?
Eating these dark-colored root vegetables can temporarily turn your urine pink or red, a harmless physiological condition known clinically as beeturia.
What are beets?
This pioneering physician and chemist developed one of the world's first successful polio vaccines in the 1950s and famously refused to patent it so it could be widely distributed.
Who is Jonas Salk?
In the TV show House, Dr. House almost always rules out this rare autoimmune mimicker first before diagnosing his patients.
What is lupus?
This major local hospital system partners extensively with the area and operates immediate care and medical facilities right in Evanston.
What is NorthShore University HealthSystem/Endeavor Health?
This campus wellness center, located in the Segal Visitors Center building, offers student mental health services, workshops, and confidential support.
What is CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services)?
Cracking your knuckles does not cause this chronic joint deterioration disease, though it may temporarily reduce grip strength.
This Scottish physician discovered penicillin in 1928, launching the modern antibiotic era that transformed medicine.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
This award-winning Netflix documentary series explores the mental health journeys, athletic pressures, and public scrutiny faced by elite professional tennis players.
What is Break Point?
The City of Evanston made national history by establishing the nation's first municipal program providing reparations specifically targeted at addressing historical housing inequities for this group.
Who are Black/African American residents?
This student-led undergraduate organization, originally founded under the name All In in Spring 2024, focuses on local health advocacy and education.
What is Health Equity at Northwestern (HEN)?
The old wives' tale that humans only use this small fraction of their brains is entirely false; functional neuroimaging shows almost all areas active over a 24-hour cycle.
What is 10%?