Virginia Medical Reserve Corps

You Never Know
When Your Community Might Need You.

The success of our response to a large-scale public health event, such as a pandemic or bioterrorism attack, depends on how quickly and effectively we can mobilize MRC volunteers.

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

• Health education and preventative health screenings.
• Efforts to provide medical services to at-risk populations.
• Communicable disease outbreak response.
• Volunteer emergency preparedness training and exercises.
• Local, state and national response to terrorism attacks and disasters; providing staffing support for medical services, emergency shelters, mental health outreach, dispensing sites for medications and vaccinations, disease investigations and environmental health efforts for food and human safety.