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Lifebox Students for Global Health – looking for new representatives
It’s an exciting opportunity for UK-based medical students, or students from other disciplines with a passion for global health, to develop their professional experience and leadership – while raising awareness of this critical, emerging field. Apply to be a Lifebox-SfGH…
Lifebox and the Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust (SPECT) Launch Partnership to Improve Surgical Instrument Sterilization Globally
Lifebox, the international non-profit dedicated to improving the safety of surgery and anesthesia around the world and SPECT, the Canadian-based non-profit established to improve instrument decontamination and sterilization processes in resource-constrained countries, are piloting the training course in…
It all comes down to teamwork
“If one of us can’t make it to the top, the other has to finish it.” At the end of August, Dr Ed Fitzgerald and I fundraised for Lifebox through our climb up Mt Kilimanjaro. We had been…
Lifebox Light in JAMA Surgery
In this month’s leading article on surgical innovation from JAMA Surgery, Lifebox Special Advisor and former trustee Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH, along with former Ethiopia Safe Surgery Fellow Jared Forrester, MD and our Global CEO Kris Torgeson, MSc, MPhil, delved…
Admin superstar needed
If you’re keen to learn about global health and have 2-3 days available per week in the coming months, please consider applying for this exciting fixed-term post. PURPOSE OF ROLE To support the various administrative needs of our…
Lifebox Welcomes Three New Global Governance Council Members
Founded in 2011 by four leading global health organizations and chaired by Dr. Atul Gawande, the organization utilizes tools, training, and partnerships to help improve the delivery of safe surgery globally. Lifebox’s flagship program developed a low-cost and low-resource-adapted pulse…
Lifebox is recruiting for a Finance Manager
This is an exciting role whose purpose is to make sure Lifebox has the appropriate financial infrastructure in place to support our 3-year strategic vision and our mission. You will oversee the management and operation of our global finances and…
Meet Nichole – Lifebox’s new Safe Surgery Fellow
Tell us a bit about yourself – what’s your background, and why did you join the Lifebox team? I’m currently a general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. After graduating from college and earning my Masters in…
Summiting Kilimanjaro to Support Safer Surgery
How did you become passionate about promoting safe surgery and anesthesia? [EF] Five years ago this month I was fortunate start a Fellowship with the Lifebox Foundation, working to improve patient safety in global surgery and anesthesia…
Exciting opportunity in sterile processing training
Lifebox and our partner SPECT are looking for a volunteer to assist with an educational development project to support surgical instrument processing practices. The project involves developing teaching tools for inclusion in a modular toolkit for individuals in low and middle income countries,…
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