By HQ Press staff<\/p>\n
Multimedia by Lee Colon<\/p>\n
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut \u2014 As temperatures climbed into the mid-40s, about 3,000 runners filled the streets of the East Rock neighborhood Sunday morning to raise funds for Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services<\/a>. <\/p>\n The Run for Refugees 5-kilometer run, which is held each year on the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, raises tens of thousands of dollars for the non-profit and draws local and state politicians. <\/p>\n About eighty Quinnipiac University students and faculty joined a yellow-clad team representing the Global Public Health programs. <\/p>\n Wendy Sewack, assistant director of global public health, helped organize the team.<\/p>\n \u201cEspecially because we work in global public health, this is something all our future health care practitioners are going to need to see and be a part of, so we wanted to show our support,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n Sewack said 2019\u2019s IRIS Run for Refugees is the third time QU Global Public Health has sponsored a team.<\/p>\n \n