Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
2) she loves football So it’s entirely fitting that we met during the 2014 World Cup Summer, in the online launch of Lifebox Offside: ‘the beautiful game’ reimagined as competitive global health. Since then, Lauren’s joined Lifebox…
Medical students are the future of global surgery. Chronology, multiplied by epidemiology, to the power of social media – it’s a fierce equation that looks to balance the inequity in surgical and anaesthetic access, safety, participation and voice. Last month…
In 1980, the WHO Director-General made that speech. In 2015, after decades of work, surgery and anaesthesia reached the World Health Assembly agenda for the first time – and got a resolution. Lifebox was…
NGOs work best when they work together – and we’ve been working with Smile Train for as long as we can remember. From our earliest days to our fifth birthday, we’ve teamed…
We know exactly where the time goes. In the last five years we’ve made surgery and anaesthesia safer for 10 million people, across 100 countries worldwide. We’ve worked with extraordinary individuals and organisations, committed to safer care for their patients and…
We’re back in West Africa for #SaferSurgeryBurkinaFaso – and our trusty team is keeping us up to date on the latest! Tune in below as Dr Angela Enright reports from behind the scenes of our life-saving safe anaesthesia…
(c) Leprosy Mission We met volunteer nurse Erin Horn through friends at Mercy Ships. The name Anandaban, she told us, literally means ‘forest of joy,’ and the hospital is ‘a sanctuary for those affected by…
This spring we announced our second technical stream of work, in collaboration with the GE Foundation and local partners: reduction of surgical site infection. Led by Lifebox trustee and global surgery expert Tom Weiser, this…
This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide…
All super teams have origin stories, and Lifebox is no different. If you read the history you’ll see that before we were us, we were many other things. Consulting on development of the WHO Surgical Safety…
