PA Elizabeth Sheehan, of Dover, Mass., has spent a long time working among some of the most medically underserved people in the world. Now, she has an ambitious but simple plan to improve the health of women and children globally by converting shipping container into primary health care clinics.

Sheehan's new nonprofit Containers 2 Clinics, or C2C, was recently profiled in lengthy feature story in The Boston Globe. She told the newspaper that she was "thumbing through Foreign Affairs magazine last year when an article and photo caught her eye. The story, headlined "The Global Health Burden,'' addressed the failure to deliver rural health care in developing countries. The photo of a prototype clinic was intriguing. [She] peered more closely: Could it really be one of those ugly metal shipping containers that litter ports everywhere?"
 
According to C2C's website, the clinics will be staffed by local health professionals in-country. C2C's approach to rural medical care is designed to strengthen the entire health care system of a country from the bottom up by building capacity to treat illness locally. C2C clinics will focus on improving the lives of women and children through vaccinations, safe pregnancy and delivery and health education. C2C's model allows for standard design and operations and for replication across regions.

Read the story here.

For more information, go to the Containers 2 Clinics website.