In 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through large areas of the American South, decimating homes, businesses and hospitals, and leaving thousands of people across Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi in despair. Native Mississippian John Roberts, in college at the time, volunteered to help local communities recover. What he saw there inspired him to become an emergency- and …
International Medical Corps mourns the passing of our beloved friend and longtime supporter, Richard Riordan, one of International Medical Corps’ earliest board members. In the mid-1980s, as a Los Angeles-based humanitarian organization with one program at that time in Afghanistan, International Medical Corps was fortunate to have Riordan join our Board of Directors at an …
International Medical Corps mourns the passing of our beloved friend and longtime supporter, Richard Riordan, one of International Medical Corps’ earliest board members. In the mid-1980s, as a Los Angeles-based humanitarian organization with one program at that time in Afghanistan, International Medical Corps was fortunate to have Riordan join our Board of Directors at an …
A band of severe weather, including more than 50 tornadoes, swept through the central United States during the evening of March 31 and into the morning of April 1, killing more than 30 people, hospitalizing dozens and devastating homes, businesses and critical infrastructure. Search-and-rescue efforts are underway in response to reports of people trapped in …
International Medical Corps President and CEO Nancy Aossey is profiled in this list of inspiring women in the Los Angeles area.
Dr. Zawar Ali and Shiromi Perera examine how International Medical Corps conducted surveys where it operates to better understand vaccine hesitancy.
Erica Tavares talks about her role leading International Medical Corps’ US programs, and how the country faces the same challenges found elsewhere.
International Medical Corps has always placed a special priority on training since our founding. Training young Afghan men in the mid-1980s as paramedics was at the heart of our very first program nearly four decades ago. In the years since, almost every operational program we have undertaken has included a training component—but throughout those years …
