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…
As the first country affected by the Ebola virus in 2014, the Republic of Guinea’s weakened public health infrastructure is still recovering from the devastating impact of this epidemic. Today, the country has less than…
As a final year at medical school in the UK, one of the required reflections for my surgical rotation is on the use of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. I observed the Checklist’s use in theatre…
Here we learn more about his mission – “safe anaesthesia equals safer surgery.” Can you talk about some of the challenges that anaesthesia providers face in delivering safe surgical care in your region? If you see today’s…
Last month we… Welcomed Mansi Tara to the Lifebox team – she’ll be leading our work in South Asia, with a particular focus on India. Interviewed Joon Yoo, our ServiceCorps fellow and second-newest Lifebox team member. Participated…
Over the last few months, I have been volunteering for Lifebox to map the distribution of their lifesaving piece of equipment – the pulse oximeter. Their new interactive map plots…
But numbers at that scale are academic. What does 77,000 mean to the individual patient or anaesthesia provider? And more to the point: where in the world are there? Over the last six years, Lifebox has met thousands of…
What is Corbis’s mission? Corbis Sussex is a student-faculty multidisciplinary group comprising individuals with global health interests based in Brighton. Our objective is to foster the growth of a cohesive, multi-disciplinary, global health community at the University of Sussex,…
The 2017 Maternal Health Campaign from Mediaplanet shares powerful perspectives on a devastating truth: that in many parts of the world, having a child remains one of the most dangerous things…
And as Project Manager for the South Asia region, with a particular focus on India, she’ll bring her professional and personal experience to bear on some critical safer anaesthesia and surgery programmes. Here’s the plan! Welcome to Lifebox! Could you…
He also single-handedly organised the first ever Lifebox workshop in India. And with his mantra of “Safe anaesthesia, Safe Surgery, Safe Patient” it’s hard to resist his enthusiasm and can-do attitude when it comes to all things…
