Twenty years in the field,
under one command structure.
CDRS Health draws on the leadership team that has run Comprehensive Disaster Response Services since the 2005 Pakistan earthquake — the same people who built and staffed permanent clinics, cleared customs on emergency medical shipments, and stood up field hospitals across three continents.
Timothy Todd Shea
Todd Shea responded to the September 11 attacks in New York, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the Indian Ocean tsunami in Sri Lanka before arriving in Pakistan after the catastrophic 2005 earthquake — and staying. What began as an emergency deployment became a twenty-year commitment: a network of health facilities in Azad Jammu & Kashmir, a permanent Mother & Child Health Center in Swat, and disaster medical missions from Haiti to the Philippines.
Since 2015 he and the CDRS team have extended that logistics capability well beyond emergency medicine — nearly 900 clean drinking water projects, construction for schools and family enterprises, three House of Blessings facilities supporting widows and orphans, a nationwide animal welfare program, and a youth community service network spanning 25 chapters.
That operational history is the foundation CDRS Health is built on: the organization already knows how to move medical equipment across borders, place it in a functioning clinic, and keep it running for a decade.
The team accountable for placement, operations and reporting.
Equipment donors deal with a named chain of responsibility — the officers of CDRS, accountable for logistics, finance, governance and field operations.
Syed Hassan Raza
Syed Hassan Raza brings more than fifteen years of international experience across supply chain, logistics, pharmaceuticals, e-commerce and technology, spanning the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the CIS region and South Asia.
He has held leadership and C-suite roles at FedEx, GSK, Procter & Gamble, Alibaba and Shipfro, and is the founder of Meditech USA. As Vice President and a board member of CDRS, he brings that logistics and procurement background directly to the movement, clearance and placement of donated medical equipment.
- MBA — Durham University Business School, UK
Timothy Justin Shea
Timothy Justin Shea has spent more than a decade on the front lines of humanitarian response and disaster relief. He served as Assistant CEO of CDRS from 2013 to 2025 and was a founding member of the CDRS Youth Volunteer Corps.
His field work spans Pakistan's mountains, deserts and megacities, island communities in the Maldives, hurricane disaster zones across the United States, typhoon-hit regions of the Philippines and flood-affected districts of northern Pakistan — including relief after Hurricanes Maria and Harvey, Typhoon Haiyan, famine relief in rural Pakistan, and earthquake rehabilitation in Azad Kashmir.
- Founding member — CDRS Youth Volunteer Corps
Reza Hassan
Oversees financial stewardship and reporting for CDRS, including the accounting of donated equipment and the records that sit behind every patient-contact and placement figure published here.
Medical oversight of equipment placement.
Rehabilitation and recovery equipment is only useful if the receiving facility can operate it safely. CDRS Health applies a clinical review at three points.
Suitability review
Country Director and facility clinical leadership assess whether a proposed donation matches the patient population, power and space requirements, and available staff competency before acceptance.
Commissioning and training
Installation is paired with staff orientation, and where the donor manufacturer provides it, direct training. Facilities confirm operational readiness in writing before the placement is closed out.
Utilization review
Receiving facilities report patient throughput and equipment uptime on a periodic basis. Underutilized equipment is reviewed and, where appropriate, redeployed within the network.
Governance credentials.
U.S. 501(c)(3) status
CDRS is a tax-exempt non-profit registered with the Internal Revenue Service for humanitarian relief, development and social welfare (Federal EIN 47-3837240). Donations are tax-deductible for U.S. taxpayers.
Registered in Pakistan
CDRS is registered as a trust with the Government of Pakistan and certified as a trusted charity by the Pakistan Centre for Philanthropy.
Documented patient reporting
CDRS maintains facility-level patient contact records spanning March 2006 to the present, disaggregated by facility, mission, sex and age band — the basis for the figures published on this site.
Published reports
Program documentation and annual reporting are published by the parent organization and available to donors and their advisors on request.