IMC works internationally through cooperation: it connects medical capacity, institutions and local actors across borders, together with the network of the World Organization for Peace (WOFP).
IMC is not organized by region. It relies on international cooperation and on WOFP’s institutional network to take its medical response where it is needed.
Reach, for the committee, is not a number of places on a map. It is the ability to work with others across borders, bringing together medical capacity, institutional networks and local knowledge.
The globe illustrates international cooperation. It does not show where IMC operates.
IMC’s main institutional network is that of the World Organization for Peace. On its official website, WOFP lists national representatives, including secretaries general for different countries.
That network belongs to WOFP, and its existence does not mean that IMC carries out medical work in those countries. What it offers is a channel for contact and coordination with local actors when humanitarian health needs arise.
Coordination is the core of IMC’s international work: working with health authorities, agencies and local organizations, organizing medical supplies and transport in a crisis, and fitting medical support to the health services already in place.
The full response model is set out under humanitarian medical response.
Health crises rarely stop at borders. Displacement, outbreaks and large disasters can affect several countries at once, and the response depends on institutions and professionals from different places working together.
Health professionals who want to contribute to the committee’s medical work can express their interest through its institutional channels.
Agencies, governments and partner organizations can work with IMC and WOFP on joint humanitarian health programs.
IMC lists partnerships on this site only once they have been formally established and their publication authorized. That is why no partner institutions appear here yet.
Organizations interested in cooperating can write to the institutional team.
IMC describes its capacity by what it can bring together, not in figures:
Health professionals who can join a response once an emergency is declared.
Coordination of medical supplies and transport for work in crisis settings.
Joint work with health authorities and local organizations in each intervention.
Coordination with the humanitarian network of the World Organization for Peace.
For how this applies in practice, see emergency medical response and community health.
How IMC organizes its medical response, and its areas of work.
