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
Event Director and Founder, Nicholas Rutherford tells us more about this innovative event below. What is the concept behind AidEx, and why was the conference launched six years ago? AidEx was launched in 2011 to help the international…
The first ever global guidelines focused exclusively on the prevention of surgical site infection were published by the World Health Organization on 3 November 2016. Designed to address the increasing burden of healthcare-associated infections on both patients and systems…
Last month we… Joined President Barack Obama for a conversation about the future of medicine (well – sort of. Our co-founder and chair, Atul Gawande did!) Went back to Chicago for our…
Access to healthcare is limited by a lack of resources and staff with only 0.7 physicians and 1.1 nurses per 1,000 population. Of its 15,500 operating rooms, over 7,000 lack pulse oximetry – leaving millions of people to undergo surgery…
Join us in London for the U.K. premiere of this important film, inspired by Lifebox founder, surgeon and author Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto. The Global Health Film initiative is a partnership between the Royal…
What does the Ellison Pierce lecture mean to you, and what will you be speaking about? The Ellison Pierce lecture is not only an opportunity for me to recognize one of my mentors and giants in anesthesia safety but to…
Can you join us? Earlier this year we were privileged to receive a three-year grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation to help spearhead our work into India, where the safe surgery crisis is acute. We’ll be delivering…
And thanks to a longstanding relationship with the Zambian Ministry of Health, Lifebox co-founder the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) and the Zambian Anaesthesia Development Project through the Tropical Health and Education Trust (…
Although your Lifebox Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre is just beginning, you could say your relationship with the hospital goes way back… Yes – it came about in a strange way! I read about KCMC when I was 16. …
What was your first experience of anesthesia in a low-resource setting? I spent two months in the Solomon Islands, at the end of medical school. It was totally eye-opening because I’d done all my training around the South East of…
