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
We’re delighted to share an example of our recent partnership with European NGO Médecins Sans Vacances with all our French-speakers – and grateful to our friends for their support. “Pendant toutes les missions de Médecins Sans Vacances, nos…
Kris is passionate about humanitarian action, with a career spanning New York, Geneva, Monrovia and beyond. She saw the scale of the global surgery and anaesthesia crisis – and the critical need to address it – long before she knew…
Kris is a former Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) International based in Switzerland where she led an extensive governance reform process, while ensuring coordination of all facets of MSF’s worldwide humanitarian operations. Following…
My name is Emma Spencer and I’m a final year medical student at the University of Bristol in the UK. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend a month last year at Kitovu Hospital in…
It’s seen screens from London to Mombasa and beyond, but we’re counting on you to bring The Checklist Effect to your university, your hospital, your community – your living room? Download the screening kit below, and see how easy it is to host your own…
What’s a ‘Masterclass’? It’s a chance for AAGBI members to learn more about the global anaesthesia activities of their friends and colleagues. How do you teach the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in Madagascar? What…
…who have just won an ABPCO Excellence Award, for best event by an in-house conference organiser. BeyondBORDERS introduced more than 300 new and future clinicians to the opportunities and challenges of this urgent, emerging field. “As a leading voice of…
We spoke to designer Brenda Roberts Costa, who runs digital creative agency Synchroma, about her experience bringing the Lifebox oximeter ‘how to’ to life. The video needed to translate technical concepts into simple…
Education is a key component of Lifebox’s work, because we know that equipment alone isn’t the solution – lives are saved by the team that knows how to use it. So our materials are designed to help in-country and visiting healthcare providers get the…
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