Virginia Medical Reserve Corps

Volunteers Protecting Virginia's Health

Virginia Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) units are teams of local volunteer medical, public health professionals, and community members who volunteer to contribute their skills, expertise, and time to support ongoing public health initiatives and public health emergencies in localities across Virginia. 

During a large-scale public health event, such as a pandemic influenza outbreak or bioterrorism attack, public health staffing resources will be quickly utilized beyond their capacity.  The success of our response efforts will be tied to how quickly and effectively we can mobilize MRC volunteers.

MRC units throughout the state actively improve and protect their community’s public health by participating in:

• Public health prevention education and health screenings
• Efforts to provide medical services to low-income and at-risk populations
• The public health response to communicable disease outbreaks
• Community emergency preparedness education and outreach activities
• Volunteer emergency preparedness training and exercises
• The response to local, state, and national terrorism attacks and disasters by supporting medical services, emergency shelters, mental health outreach, dispensing sites for mass dosing of medications and vaccinations, disease investigations and environmental health efforts for food and human safety.
  

Join your local MRC unit TODAY!