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Crystal Wells

Roving Communications Officer, International Medical Corps

Crystal Wells is a roving communications officer with International Medical Corps, a global humanitarian organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through emergency health care services and training. She has worked in the NGO sector for 10 years and has traveled extensively to cover needs on the grounds and responses to wars, natural disasters, and disease outbreaks. This includes conflicts in Iraq, Central African Republic, Somalia, and South Sudan; the refugee crisis in the Middle East and Europe; earthquakes in Haiti, Nepal, and Japan; Ebola in West Africa; flooding in southern Africa; and cholera in Haiti. She has also reported on longer-term programming from Tanzania, Rwanda, Mozambique, Kenya, and Sierra Leone. She has bachelors degrees in both business administration and communications from Boston University and lives in New York City.

April 6, 2017

After the Islamic State: Restoring Mosuls Shattered Health Care System
March 7, 2017

If you had to flee, what would you carry?
December 6, 2017

'Everyone You See Here Fled'
December 6, 2017

The Baghdad Boil: Fighting a Painful Flesh Parasite Affecting Iraq's Displaced

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December 6, 2017

Stories of Refugees on the Long Road to Europe
December 6, 2017

The Orphans We Are Left With
December 6, 2017

The Morning Shift on Lesvos
December 6, 2017

"As Long as You Have Life, You Have Hope:" A Village in Liberia Tries to Find Hope and Healing after Ebola
December 6, 2017

In Guinea, Disbelief Around Ebola as Stubborn as the Virus Itself
December 6, 2017

'I Thought I Would Never See Again': After Surviving Ebola, Health Complications Persist for Many
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