International Medical Crisis Response Alliance
International Medical Crisis Response Alliance (IMCRA):
Providing Educational Resources to Healthcare Professionals for Medical Crises & Natural Disasters
We are a UN-affiliated nonprofit,
formed by and for medical professionals. We strive to fill critical gaps during global crises through the use of an innovative and comprehensive educational telemedicine platform that enables under-equipped medical professionals working with vulnerable populations.
On July 31, 2016, IMCRA held its 4th major colloquium/workshop in Japan titled,"The Long-Term Caregiver Experience: Patients, Providers, Pragmatics". The need for this event became especially pressing after the Kumamoto earthquake. Because there is still little easily-accessible practice data on the long-term medical/psychological pitfalls of disaster recovery we have begun to update our professional guide modules for families and healthcare providers in both regions of Japan
Our Community Cyberspace project will provide expert psychosocial training to first-line providers (family members, clergymen, primary care physicians) so that they can best help Veterans living with PTSD. These providers will have 24/7 access to IMCRA resources developed by the very best practitioners of post-traumatic psychology. Our system allows for complete anonymity and is available in multiple languages.
Over 4,000,000 persons are now in squalid refugee camps and 800,000 more have moved into a Europe which is increasingly reluctant and incapable of handling their medical and psychological needs. IMCRA offers a unique and effective solution by providing free access to the world's greatest concentration of Arabic and Urdu-speaking specialists in medicine, psychology and the psychosocial sciences outside of the Middle East.
On July 31, 2016, IMCRA held its 4th major colloquium/workshop in Japan titled,"The Long-Term Caregiver Experience: Patients, Providers, Pragmatics". The need for this event became especially pressing after the Kumamoto earthquake. Because there is still little easily-accessible practice data on the long-term medical/psychological pitfalls of disaster recovery we have begun to update our professional guide modules for families and healthcare providers in both regions of Japan
The Latest at IMCRA
On August 12th 2022, the International Medical Crisis Response Alliance officially became a consultative NGO for the United Nations under the aegis of ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the UN). Since that time our activities have expanded considerably to include ECOSOC missions such has the health of oceanic ecosystems and the populations dependent on them. In addition, we have continued with our humanitarian mission to provide native language medical remediation to populations aflicted by both manmade and natural disasters. Currently our focus has been the Israel-Gaza conflict with Arabic-language modules prepared in several different therapeutic areas. IMCRA is a wholly non-political entity and services are provided as needed. Thus we are also preparing English and Hebrew-language modules for those afflicted by PTSD in the wake of the October 7th 2023 horrors.
Most recently our Japan representatives attended a colloquium in Sapporo sponsored by the Hokkaido Child Care Center and hosted by Hokkaido University which explored how 21st century schoolchildren raised in an atmosphere of virtual reality perceived the actuality of conflict and war in locations such as the Ukraine and Israel-Gaza. Not surprisingly there was general agreement on reduced sensitivity to the realities of suffering and conflict elsewhere in the world.
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