Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
In 2007, I embarked on a transformative journey as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia, assigned to monitor and evaluate HIV/AIDS services for a government office. Little did I know that this seemingly random assignment would blossom into a 17-year…
At Lifebox, we recognize that safer surgery saves lives—and that women are a vital part of this mission. Women play a significant role in surgical teams worldwide, whether as surgeons and anesthesiologists performing life-saving procedures, or nurses providing essential…
Clean cut in Honduras
Dr Andrew Hill – The outgoing Society President of ISS/SIC and World Congress of Surgery President 2019 – on WCS 2019 and supporting Lifebox Dr Kathleen Casey Surgeon and Secretary, Executive Committee The G4 Alliance, outgoing President of…
1.) Why should people invest in safer surgery and anesthesia? In countries with advanced healthcare systems, we are very privileged and sheltered from the reality of most of the world’s population, who still don’t have access to safe surgery and…
Lifebox works with in-country and international volunteers around the world to make our work possible. Daniela Rebollo Salazar, a student at New York University’s (NYU) medical school, has just returned from Ethiopia, where she carried out…
With a population of over 60 million people, Tanzania is one of the largest countries in East Africa and has one of the lowest rates of anesthesia providers in the world. A dearth of trained clinicians, coupled with…
Tell us a bit about yourself – what’s your background? Myles leads a simulation at the workshop at KCMC. ©Lifebox 2019 I am a graduate of the National University of Ireland, Galway and after training…
As in previous years, I had the privilege of representing Lifebox at the WHA as a member of the delegation sent by our founding partner, the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA). …
Ethiopia has one of the lowest measured rates of surgery in the world. As a result, surgical teams face a number of challenges on a daily basis, which can put patients at risk. In 2016,…
The Clean Cut program encourages teamwork from all hospital personnel, how do you fit in to this? Ever since the beginning of the program, I have been assisting with data collection, analysis, and the presentation of our results…
How I came to be involved in Clean Cut I arrived on the ground in Ethiopia with Lifebox last summer to a program that was clicking and running in full force. The Clean Cut program, with support from the…
We kicked off our safer surgery work in Burundi in partnership with ATSARPS (Agora des Techniciens Supérieurs Anesthésistes Réanimateurs pour la Promotion de la Santé), the Burundian anesthesia society, to organize a pulse oximetry training workshop in Bujumbura, at…
