In 2013, Corona was deployed to the Philippines as part of an aid team in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan,[6] and he headed Muhammadiyah's medical response team (Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center/MDMC) to the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.[7] During the Rohingya refugee crisis in 2017, Corona was appointed to lead Muhammadiyah's team of eleven medical practitioners ("Muhammadiyah Aid") to Cox's Bazar, itself under a larger group of Indonesian aid to the refugees of which Corona was coordinator.[8][9] The aid team encountered a diphteria outbreak in the refugee camps.[10]