International Expert on Disaster Relief to Speak at Ursinus College

Rabih Torbay, Vice President for International Operations,
International Medical Corps (IMC) will speak on campus February 19. An
experienced disaster relief manager and program design specialist, Torbay has
15 years of experience working in developing countries. He has implemented
projects in complex emergency settings on three continents and worked in all
phases of NGO disaster response management.

In 2003, Torbay led the Emergency Response Team and served
as Acting Country Director for IMC’s comprehensive relief and development
initiative in Iraq. IMC was the first non-governmental organization to enter
southern Iraq in April 2003 as well as one of the first agencies to enter
Baghdad after the war. Currently, IMC has more than 400 staff operating
programs in 16 of 18 governed regions throughout the country.

Torbay spearheaded a comprehensive, multi-sectoral relief
program throughout Iraq. Hi efforts included primary health services, basic
medical supplies and drugs, emergency feeding programs for the most vulnerable,
water and sanitation activities, hospital and clinic rehabilitation, and
hands-on training for Iraqi medical counterparts. He was invited to speak by
Ambassador (Ret.) Joseph H. Melrose Jr., who first met him in Sierra Leone.

Torbay’s lecture will take place at 7 p.m. in Musser
Auditorium in Pfahler Hall.