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Importance of Healthy Participants

Click on a link below to learn more about why healthy volunteers are vital for clinical trials and how you can participate:

• NIH: Purpose and Impact of Healthy Participants
• Mayo Clinic: How to find Trials

Pros and Cons of Being a Healthy Participant

Click on a link below to learn more about how you may benefit as a healthy participant:

• NIH: Program for Healthy Volunteers
• Personal stories:
•  The Life of a Professional Guinea Pig– The Atlantic
• NIH: Melanie’s general experience as a healthy participant
• NIH: Lisa’s story as a healthy participant in a study about menopause

At Chicago Public Library

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

• Book: Clinical Trials—What Patients and Volunteers Need to Know
• Book: Human Trials—Scientists, Investors, and Patients in the Quest for a Cure
• Resource List: 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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