Islamic Medical Association of North America - IMANA

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IMANA fosters health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance in communities around the world through direct patient care, health programs, and advocacy. We wish to engage our community of supporters in dialogue regarding healthcare policies and advocacy, as well as mobilize supporters to support our many global medical relief missions.

Today is World Humanitarian Day.So here's something worth understanding about how our missions actually work: most of th...
08/19/2026

Today is World Humanitarian Day.

So here's something worth understanding about how our missions actually work: most of the people on them are not full-time aid workers.

They're surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses, dentists, pharmacists with clinics and mortgages and children. They take annual leave. They arrange cover. They pay to be there. Then they fly home on a Sunday and are back at work on Monday.

No salary. No title. Often no photographs of the hardest parts.

To every IMANA volunteer who has done this — in Aden, in Cox's Bazar, in Amman, in Gaza, in Swat: thank you. You are the organization. Everything else is logistics.

Tag someone who's done a mission. 👇

It's National Nonprofit Day, which feels like the right moment to say something plainly.You should not have to take our ...
08/17/2026

It's National Nonprofit Day, which feels like the right moment to say something plainly.

You should not have to take our word for any of this.

IMANA is a registered 501(c)(3). We hold a Candid Platinum Seal, and we're rated on Charity Navigator. We hold consultative recognition with the United Nations and the OIC, and we're a member of InterAction and a charter member of FIMA.

We publish annual reports. They're on the site, and they are not a highlight reel.

We say this because trust in charity is earned through documents, not adjectives — and because the people who give to us are frequently the same people who work eighty-hour weeks to earn it.

Read our annual reports: imana.org/annual-reports/

We are a medical association, and we don't often post about faith directly. But it is the reason most of our volunteers ...
08/16/2026

We are a medical association, and we don't often post about faith directly. But it is the reason most of our volunteers are on the plane.

There's a hadith our founders would have known well: for every disease Allah sent down, He also sent down its cure. (Bukhari)

Read it as a physician and it becomes an instruction. It means the cure exists. It means looking for it is worship. It means giving up on a patient is not a neutral act.

As Rabi al-Awwal begins, that's the part of the Prophetic example we sit with — not as decoration on our work, but as its actual foundation. Mercy that shows up as competence.

Seek the cure. Then go find the people who can't reach it.

Learn about our values: imana.org/about

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. 💉Here's the part people underestimate: the hard part of immunisation is...
08/14/2026

August is National Immunization Awareness Month. 💉

Here's the part people underestimate: the hard part of immunisation isn't the vaccine. It's everything around it.

Keeping it cold on a road that isn't a road. Finding the child again for the second dose. Records that survive a camp, a move, a monsoon.

Where health systems are strong, vaccination feels routine. Where they're weak — in displacement camps, in rural districts — routine is exactly what's missing, and preventable disease walks straight back in.

Routine care is not boring. In the places we work, it's the whole fight.

Support our medical relief teams in the field: imana.org/donate

It's International Youth Day.Every mission team we send has someone on it who's early in their career — a resident, a st...
08/12/2026

It's International Youth Day.

Every mission team we send has someone on it who's early in their career — a resident, a student, someone doing this for the first time and finding out what they're capable of.

That isn't sentimental. It's succession planning. The physicians who founded IMANA in 1967 were once the young ones too.

We run a Students & Residents committee, a mentorship programme, and annual scholarships for students in medicine, pharmacy, dentistry and allied health — because a career in this field is hard to navigate alone, and harder to fund.

If you're a student wondering whether there's a place for you in this work: there is, and we'd like to hear from you.

Explore mentorship & scholarships: imana.org/committees/imana-students-residents

08/11/2026

August is National Eye Exam Month and Children's Eye Health & Safety Month — a good moment to talk about one of the quietest injustices in global health.

Cataract surgery is among the most cost-effective operations in all of medicine. It is also, for millions of people, completely out of reach.

So someone stops working. Stops cooking. Stops recognising faces. A child is pulled out of school to guide a grandparent. One untreated condition reorganises an entire household.

IMANA runs free cataract surgeries in remote parts of Bangladesh with local partners, and since 2017 has worked with an ophthalmology team across Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir — free eye exams, cataract surgery, minor procedures.

The operation is short. The wait is the tragedy.

Support this work: imana.org

In the autumn of 1967, at a student association meeting in Columbus, Ohio, a few Muslim physicians decided their profess...
08/10/2026

In the autumn of 1967, at a student association meeting in Columbus, Ohio, a few Muslim physicians decided their profession needed something that didn't exist yet.

Dr. Mobin Akhtar. Dr. Amjad Ali. A handful of others. No offices, no funding, no missions.

What they had was an idea: that Muslim healthcare professionals in North America needed a forum — and that the same group should be doing humanitarian relief. That second part was there from the very beginning.

Fifty-nine years later, that's still the arrangement. A professional association that also shows up in Aden, Cox's Bazar, Amman, and Gaza.

Everything since has been built on a conversation at a student meeting.

Read our history: imana.org/imana-history

Millions of people worldwide are affected by hepatitis, often without knowing it. Early testing, vaccination, and educat...
07/28/2026

Millions of people worldwide are affected by hepatitis, often without knowing it. Early testing, vaccination, and education play a critical role in prevention.

This World Hepatitis Day, learn more about protecting your health and supporting healthier communities.

Learn More: imana.org

Even during crisis, healthcare workers continue serving patients under incredibly difficult conditions. Through Aid Gaza...
07/27/2026

Even during crisis, healthcare workers continue serving patients under incredibly difficult conditions. Through Aid Gaza, IMANA supports efforts to strengthen healthcare delivery and provide critical relief where it's needed most.

Support the effort: imana.org/imr/aid-gaza

Through ServePakistan, IMANA volunteers continue reaching communities with limited healthcare access. From patient scree...
07/24/2026

Through ServePakistan, IMANA volunteers continue reaching communities with limited healthcare access. From patient screenings to medical consultations, every visit helps strengthen healthier futures.

Support the Mission: imana.org/imr/donate-pakistan

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9681 Main Street, Suite B
Fairfax, VA
22031

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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