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
A longstanding champion of Lifebox’s work in the Western Pacific, we’re honoured to have been part of their National Scientific Congress Gala Dinner. And, thanks to the auction of a diamond pendant to mark their jubilee, very grateful for the incredible contribution…
From our recent visit to the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa’s (COSECSA) AGM and Scientific Conference in Kenya – with oximeter donation, consultation and premiere of our new surgical instruments video – to…
Access to safe surgery is essential for reducing maternal mortality – but as in many low-resource countries, surgery and anaesthesia can all too often become unsafe. So we teamed up with International Medical Corps (IMC) earlier this year to support anaesthesia providers…
The risk is high: an invisible threat to patients who’ve given everything they’ve got to get to a hospital, reversing the life-saving work of surgical teams striving to save them. Our Clean Cut programme, piloting in Ethiopia, aims to develop…
What has it been like, shifting from student to junior doctor? I remember the first time I did a Caesarean section by myself. I walked in and paused at the door – because obviously I’d assisted, but I had now…
Last month we… Premiered our documentary, The Checklist Effect, on the big screen at the Barbican as part of the Global Health Film Festival! Launched LifeboxSquared, a fundraising…
We met one such organisation recently at the World Congress of Anaesthesiologists (WCA). Citizens of the World Foundation is a charity that works to support anaesthesia providers at Justinian University Hospital in Haiti,…
Lifebox investors (aka incredible donors) aren’t looking for financial returns. They know our currency is safer surgery and anaesthesia, and that we measure ourselves against a different gold standard. How many pulse oximeters have we distributed this year? How…
What motivated you to apply for the Lifebox Fellowship? Working in a low-resource setting has been a long-standing ambition of mine, but I wanted to ensure I had the technical skills, maturity and support to deal with the complex challenges…
To mark World Pneumonia Day on 12 November we’re delighted to share an interview with consultant anaesthetist and Lifebox Research Fellow, Dr Nick Boyd, who is part of a team working to enhance the Lifebox oximeter and neonatal probe…
