Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) offered by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is a collaborative program with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The HELP course offers humanitarian workers an intensive course in humanitarian assistance, public health principles and disaster epidemiology. The course will be held at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Instruction will take place from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for the duration of the course.
Winter Intersession : *this session has closed* (held jointly with the Institute for Johns Hopkins, Nursing) *No scholarships are awarded for the winter course
Summer Institute: July 9-27, 2012
* All J-1 Visa requests must be received with all required supporting documents by May 28, 2012. If possible, please submit completed documents for processing earlier than May 28th. Please note that no requests will be accepted after May 28th.

Johns Hopkins helps support Japanese Red Cross in offering the HELP course in Japan. Dr. Burnham recently taught in the 2009 course at the Red Cross International College of Nursing in Fukuoka. The course attracts students from East and Central Asia.
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