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EHA has responded to disasters for over the past decade both in India and internationally. EHA's crisis response in the disaster areas have led to sustainable change in the community. Some of the areas where EHA intervened are:
1991 Uttarkashi Earthquake - 1993 Latur Earthquake: Following the devastating Latur Earthquake in Central India (25,000 dead), EHA was able to build and run a new 30-bed hospital with a community health and development program in thirty villages. The work has now expanded to include AIDS awareness programme with a special focus on HIV +ve women.
- 1999 Orissa Super Cyclone: Medical teams working in the aftermath of the mega-cyclone in Orissa (1999) identified numbers of widows and young women, no longer with marriage prospects, drifting towards prostitution in Calcutta and other cities. EHA focused on women's development with grass-roots health care training, functional literacy, income generation skills and women's self-help cooperatives.
- 1999 Kosovo: EHA sent teams of doctors and health workers to work in Albania in 1999, caring for Kosovan refugees. Their contribution in both the camps and government hospitals were highly commended by both the Albanian Government and the United Nations (UNHCR).
- 2001 Gujarat Earthquake: Following the earthquake that hit Gujarat in Jan 2001, EHA participated in the relief work in Jamnagar area. The work expanded to a community health and development project with activities including formation of Community Organization, Self-help Groups and adolescent groups in the villages, Literacy, Health clinics, Skill development training, Micro-enterprise development and Disaster preparedness, amongst communities where no other agencies were undertaking a Rehabilitation phase.
- 2002 Gujarat refugee camps following communal violence
- 2004 Tsunami Andaman & Nicobar Islands, South India
- 2005 South Asia Earthquake
- 2005 Karbi Anglong Conflict in North-East India
- 2005 Banda Flood
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Disaster Relief 
