The Northwestern Public Health Review is a student-run organization
founded in 2013 to share and stimulate multi-disciplinary conversations about current public health issues. Through our print issues, blog, and campus events, we hope to help the Northwestern and broader Chicago community achieve greater health equity.
NPHR Blog
The NPHR Blog is an extension of our journal and serves as a platform for discussing the latest news and stories in public health.
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In 1854, during one of London’s cholera outbreaks, Dr. John Snow began surveying local residents and soon traced the source of cholera to contaminated water from the Broad Street Pump. At the time, cholera was widely thought to be caused by miasmas and “bad air.” He persuaded a skeptical local council to shut down the Broad Street pump and within a few days, the outbreak subsided. Thus began the development of urban water and sewage systems, along with the beginning of modern public health and epidemiologic study. This journal is inspired by Dr. Snow’s legacy and endeavors to continue the work to improve the health of our communities.
NPHR logo design by Ashley Ceniceros.
