A First Responder Since 1984
A preeminent first responder, International Medical Corps provides emergency relief to those struck by conflict, disaster and disease—no matter where they are, no matter what the conditions—working with them to recover, rebuild and gain the skills and tools required for self-reliance. After the emergency has passed and our disaster-relief effort has ended, we shift from emergency medical response to long-term medical support and training. We provide resources and training to help local staff provide a range of services—including healthcare, food, water and sanitation support—to their communities.
Learn more about our missionOur Rich History
Medical Training in Afghanistan
Unable to stand by and watch an entire people deprived of basic healthcare, International Medical Corps is born with a pioneering approach: train Afghan civilians as advanced medics, then support and supply them as they return to Soviet-occupied Afghanistan to treat residents in their home communities. The unprecedented program succeeds, establishing our work and the important role of medical training and emergency response in humanitarian assistance.
Medical Care and Hunger Relief in Somalia
As the first American non-governmental organization in the country, we braved civil war to deliver desperately needed war-related surgery to civilians injured in the capital, Mogadishu, then follow up with a nutrition program for those caught up in an ensuing famine that grips vast areas of central Somalia. The speed and reach of our emergency response furthered our reputation as an organization of first responders prepared to go where we are needed most, no matter where, no matter what the conditions.
Responding to Ebola
As one of the few international NGOs to treat patients afflicted with the virus at the source of the 2014 outbreak in West Africa, today we provide healthcare and psychosocial support to Ebola survivors and work to strengthen local healthcare systems, as part of longer-term emergency preparedness and response measures to prevent future outbreaks of Ebola and other infectious disease with epidemic potential, such as COVID-19.
"International Medical Corps is on the frontlines of all of the world’s crises, going to the most difficult places, healing people’s wounds, training locals to carry on that work, staying as long as it takes…” Sienna Miller, Global Ambassador
