Best of the New 2010: People and Ideas
Doctor in a Box

The Boston Globe, boston.com
by Bill Greene, February 3, 2010
"Discarded shipping containers have been transformed into everything from houses and hotels to office buildings and shops. But Dover’s Elizabeth Sheehan might have come up with the most innovative idea yet. Her nonprofit, Containers to Clinics, is turning the metal boxes into modular heath clinics outfitted with everything needed to provide primary and preventive care to women and kids in underserved areas of the world."

Managing Disasters with Small Steps

New York Times
by Henry Fountain, January 18, 2010
"Then, last Tuesday, a magnitude 7 earthquake struck the Dominican Republic’s neighbor, Haiti. Hospitals in the capital, Port-au-Prince, were destroyed or damaged, and basic medical care was practically nonexistent. Ms. Sheehan said her donors immediately started calling her. “They all said, ‘Why don’t you send it there?’ ” she said."

Environmental Journal: Container-turned-clinic set for Haiti

The Providence Journal
by Peter Lord, January 17, 2010
"Elizabeth Sheehan, founder of Containers to Clinics, originally intended to ship the new clinic to the Dominican Republic this month for use by a local health agency, but that plan fell through. Ever since Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, she has been talking to aid agencies to see how the clinic could be put to use."

Recycled shipping containers finding new life as mobile medical clinics in rural communities worldwide

USA Today, Kindness: New ways we give and volunteer
by Christie Garton, November 24, 2009
"With Containers to Clinics (C2C), a nonprofit in Dover, M.A., that she launched just 16 months ago, Sheehan aims to recycle the 20 million shipping metal boxes 'left rotting around the world' into medical clinics to help the poor in developing countries."

Containers to Clinics

WBUR.org, Here and Now
November 23, 2009
"Can an old shipping container get new life as a health clinic? Elizabeth Sheehan of Dover, Massachusetts says yes."

Containers2Clinics launched: modular, recycled health centers for mothers

Maternova, maternova.net
November 17, 2009
"A maternal health professional may look inside a midwifery kit or to a list of essential drugs for the keys to saving mothers' lives. One social entrepreneur has a different vision."

C2C - From Containers to Health Clinics (video)

NECN, necn.com
by Ally Donnelly, November 16, 2009
"She is spearheading an effort to turn the wasted metal into desperately needed health clinics to be shipped to underdeveloped countries. The first clinic is being unveiled tonight."

Elizabeth Sheehan has a radical yet simple plan to bring healthcare to the Third World

The Boston Globe, boston.com
by Bella English, November 3, 2009
"Elizabeth Sheehan has spent a long time working among the world’s poorest people. Now she has an ambitious but simple plan to help the worst off."

Containers to Clinics Launch Event at the ICA

Misstropolis.com
by Misstropolis Special, October 30, 2009
"Celebrating the launch of their pilot health clinic in the Dominican Republic, Containers to Clinics is throwing a party at a very intriguing venue, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art."

Shipping Container Health Clinics for Developing Countries

Inhabitat: design will save the world
by Bridgette Meinhold, October 30, 2009
"...a new non-profit initiative called Containers 2 Clinics is creating modular health care clinics for developing countries."

Old Containers Reused as Health Clinics

Jetson Green
by Preston Koerner, October 22, 2009
"C2C is a start-up non-profit that's retrofitting shipping containers for use as health clinics that cater to women and children's needs in the developing world."