“Innovating Mobility: A Step Towards Accessible Prosthetics” Expert Panel Discussion from June 8th.

 Dr. Ons Alkhadra is the Senior Director for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Affairs at International Medical Corps. In this role, Dr. Alkhadra works on business development with GCC governments, humanitarian agencies in the GCC, and philanthropists. Since assuming her role in 2014, she has initiated relationships with new partners and donors and raised over $60 million to support relief projects. Dr. Alkhadra has worked with program teams on project selection, design, and implementation to respond to humanitarian needs worldwide, including the Ukraine War, the COVID-19 pandemic, the crises in Gaza, Yemen, and Syria—including providing support to Syrian refugees in the Middle East—and the Nepal earthquake in 2015. In 2015, Dr. Alkhadra successfully negotiated with the GCC coalition to allow International Medical Corps to charter aid to Yemen during the blockade in April of that year. In addition, she successfully established a strategic relationship with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, the United Arab Emirates, and the government of Kuwait. Previously, Dr. Alkhadra supported the office of the Vice President for International Operations on the Middle East and Global Projects team. During that time, Dr. AlKhadra’s work focused on supporting International Medical Corps’ responses in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. She also supported the response to Typhoons Haiyan and Yolanda in the Philippines. In previous years, Dr. Alkhadra worked as an advisor at the Saudi Cultural Mission in the US, where she focused on capacity building of the dental workforce and creating collaborative agreements between the Saudi Ministry of Higher Education and academic institutions in the US. Dr. Alkhadra has a dental degree from King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia and has an M.P.H. with a concentration in Global Health from George Mason University in the US. She was born and raised in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and lives with her husband and children in Amman, Jordan.