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Health Emergencies in Large Populations
Summer Institute: July 7-25, 2008

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The H.E.L.P. Summer Institute offered by JHSPH is a collaborative program with the International Committee of the Red Cross. The H.E.L.P. 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 9am - 5pm, Monday through Friday for the duration of the course.

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Refugee: According to the 1951 UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, signed by 127 nations, a refugee is someone who has left his or her country because of a "well-founded fear" of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, social group or political opinion.