Direct Relief recognizes that disaster response requires rapid mobilization, but the help must be of the right type. That's why Direct Relief’s efforts are fast, yet always in direct response to specific requests from local partners and are coordinated with relief organizations and public agencies to ensure the efficient use of emergency resources.

Direct Relief is supporting medical facilities in the U.S. and throughout the world with protective gear to safeguard health care workers.

Direct Relief responds each hurricane season before disaster strikes by staging emergency medicine with health facilities in hurricane-prone regions of the Gulf Coast and Caribbean.