Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
November 12, 2025 – Lifebox, the global non-profit making surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide, has been announced as one of 80+ organizations that were awarded funding through Action for Women’s Health, a $250 million global open call,…
October 23, 2025 – In a new chapter for global surgical safety, Lifebox, the global safer surgery and anesthesia nonprofit, elected two leading voices in global health, Professor Thomas G. Weiser and…
Every year, SARANF, aka the Societies of Anaesthesia of Francophone Africa, hosts an Annual Congress bringing together anaesthesia providers from across the region to share local expertise and experiences in advancing anaesthesia capacity. Lifebox has a long…
An avid cyclist and the first Indian to win the world’s toughest endurance race, he’s the president of the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA) Maharashtra chapter and an associate professor at NDMVP Medical College, Nashik. Happily…
No better example than our WHO Surgical Safety Checklist implementation work in Tanzania, presented this week at the Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET)’s Annual Conference. When it comes to fostering health partnerships, THET…
Many thanks to safe anaesthesia champion Dr Kateryna Belka, who helped organise a Lifebox stand for the congress exhibition, delivered a pulse oximetry workshop, and hosted a screening of The Checklist Effect. We caught up with her…
From a 180% improvement in the use of appropriate hand hygiene to a 92% improvement in the proper timing of prophylactic antibiotics, Clean Cut’s potential to prevent life-threatening infections is evident – and urgent. Post-operative infection is one…
Offering students with a passion for global surgery opportunities to engage and lead in this critical and emerging field. Through hosting and attending events, spreading the word on campus and raising funds to support Lifebox’s safer surgery work around the…
With extensive international experience and being fluent in English, French and Spanish, Violeta is well placed to support Lifebox’s global reach. So we couldn’t wait to learn more… What interested you about Lifebox as an organization and as a…
Lifebox has a long history of working with partners across the Francophone world, most recently in Burkina Faso to Guinea and Niger. Local leadership, expertise – and of course a common…
I started my very engaging and interesting trip to India from Hyderabad, a city in Telangana, where Lifebox donated pulse oximeters for the very first SAFE Paediatric course to take place in India. From Hyderabad I quickly…
Boston holds a special place in our hearts as our co-founders Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, along with so many of our council members and…
