Our People

Elizabeth Sheehan, Founder and President
Allison Howard, Director of Operations
Kathleen Fleming, Program Director

Elizabeth Sheehan
Founder and President
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Elizabeth has two decades of experience delivering medical care in the US and abroad. She began her career in healthcare working in emergency rooms throughout the US as a Physician Assistant. After a year-long journey to 19 developing countries to investigate health care delivery systems, Elizabeth became the medical director of The HALO Trust, an organization committed to village-based mine clearance. With HALO, Elizabeth designed and implemented emergency care protocols for deminers and expatriate staff in Cambodia and Mozambique. After earning her Master’s in public health in London, she worked for USAID on a primary health care reconstruction project in post war Mozambique. Later, she worked as a clinician in the Maputo Central Hospital teaching triage protocols and assisting the delivery of emergency care. After Mozambique, Elizabeth moved to Tanzania, where as part of the British High Commission she volunteered her medical skills and public health knowledge in orphanages, shelters and women’s groups.

For the past 15 years, Elizabeth served as director and trustee of a family foundation, for which she designed granting strategies and evaluation tools. To date, the foundation has granted over 12 million dollars.

Elizabeth is a graduate of Holy Cross College, Duke University Medical Center’s Physician Assistant Program and The London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene jointly with the London School of Economics. In 2010, Duke's PA Program selected Elizabeth as its Alumnus of the Year. She founded Containers to Clinics in 2008.

Allison Howard
Director of Operations
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Allison is an international development project manager with 9 years of experience in NGO programming and governance in Africa. Most recently, Allison worked for the Clinton Foundation in Ethiopia as a Regional Director for the Hospital Management Initiative. She mentored hospital and medical facility directors to achieve improved management systems and patient care and worked in partnership with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health.

Allison was a Peace Corps Volunteer in northeastern South Africa where she worked for two years at a rural development NGO, Tsogang Water & Sanitation. In 2004, she co-founded the Kgwale le Mollo Foundation (KLM), a charitable organization that provides leadership development opportunities and scholarships for South African children from disadvantaged communities. Allison serves on the Board of Directors of KLM both in South Africa and in the United States.

Allison has a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.A. in International Development from the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. She joined C2C as Program Director in August 2008.

Kathleen Fleming
Program Director
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Kathleen graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2008 with a B.A. in International Relations. She spent the summers after her junior and senior years in Ethiopia with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative, working first with the Pediatric HIV Initiative and later with the Laboratory Services team. While in Ethiopia during Summer 2008, Kathleen also consulted for Chemonics International’s bid for USAID’s Food By Prescription program. During her senior year at Brown, Kathleen worked in the Dominican Republic with the Brown Sustainable Community Development Project, which empowers youth in the Dominican Republic to become future leaders of their own communities by improving local healthcare, education and economic opportunities.

Prior to joining C2C, Kathleen worked with SolarCycle, a start-up company testing solar thermal water pasteurizers on unimproved community water sources in the developing world. Kathleen planned and implemented SolarCycle's pilot project in Mozambique during Summer 2009.