Joyce Hood

Joyce Hood is a New Zealand nurse. In her work with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement she has served in areas of armed conflict and natural disaster, and received a number of medals recognising her service.

Biography Hood is from Britain and completed her nursing training there in around 1961. She emigrated to New Zealand in 1965, settling in Auckland. In 1998 she became an aid worker for the International Red Cross. Her first assignment was to Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1999. She has also served in Kenya, Timor Leste, Libya, Iraq and South Ossetia.