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Lessons learned from past research mistakes

Click on a link below to learn about past mistakes and present improvements to protect study participants:

• CDC: How Tuskeegee Changed Research Practices
• NIH: Research Ethics Timeline
• Smithsonian: Henrietta Lacks’ “Immortal” Cells

Participant protection

Click on a link below to read what the government and researchers do to protect participants:

• Belmont Report on Research Ethics
• Northwestern University Research Ethics
• Office for Human Research Protections

Trust and clinical trials in the media

Click on a link below to see what the media says about trusting clinical trials:

• Clinical Trials: What Patients and Volunteers Need to Know
• CPL Health & Medicine Online Resources

At Chicago Public Library

Click on a link below to see resources at Chicago Public Library:

• Clinical Trials: What Patients and Volunteers Need to Know
• Health & Medicine Online Resources

Find a clinical trial

Find a trial at Northwestern University here

Call a clinical trials recruitment nurse at Northwestern: (312)-695-1102

Find trials throughout Chicago and the US here

From the Chicago Department of Public Health

Connect to services and programs around Chicago

Chicago Health Atlas – for data to better understand health in Chicago and identify opportunities to improve health and well-being

CDPH’s Healthy Chicago 2.0 initiative

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