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…
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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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…
