Seeing the FACES
of global health
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 work to raise awareness, generate evidence, and provide support & build capacity, across diverse projects with partners around the world.
These are a few of our many projects:
Global Health Compassion Rounds
FACE and the WHO engage the global health community in a webinar series to share experiences, challenge ideas, and spark thinking.
Measuring Compassion
Our January 2020 Epidemiology of Compassion & Love meeting served as a springboard into many new exciting projects related to measuring compassion.
Compassion & Primary Health Care
FACE and the WHO have launched a new collaboration on compassion as the engine for primary health care.
Compassion & the SDGs
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.
