Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
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…
We are excited to share that Lifebox’s work has been featured in the latest edition of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) Bulletin. The article shines a powerful light on the strength and resilience of surgical…
Clean cut in Honduras
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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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…
