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Elizabeth Sheehan 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's Assistant. After a year-long journey to 19 developing countries to investigate health care delivery systems, She became the medical director of The HALO Trust, an organization committed to village-based mine clearance. With HALO, she 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 workedfor 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, Ms. Sheehan 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, she 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. Ms. Sheehan is a graduate of Holy Cross College, Duke University Medical Center's Physician's Assistant Program and The London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene jointly with the London School of Economics. She founded Containers to Clinics in 2008.