We focus on the people behind health statistics by centering compassion and ethics in global health practice.
Where Compassion Meets Ethics
Compassion inspires and sustains our work. Ethics helps us understand what to do and how to do it.
Compassion enables us to see a whole person or community, not just the parts relevant to a given intervention. This deep experience of shared humanity and solidarity is needed to grasp the importance of ethical decision-making. We look to principles of social justice, human rights, and equity to shape our ethical frameworks in global health.
What can we do better?
How can we better understand a community’s needs?
How can we positively impact the communities we engage?
We have been working to develop a compassion narrative for the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Join our social media campaign to reposition compassion as a central driver to achieve the SDGs.