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
Tackling antibiotic overuse in surgery with an antibiotic stewardship program to support safer surgical care in low-resource settings
The 2022 annual report covers Lifebox's work improving anesthesia safety, surgical teamwork, and infection reduction
Smile Train-Lifebox holds holds first capnography workshop in Ethiopia to improve anesthesia safety for surgical patients
Lifebox 2022 milestones: A year in review making surgery and anesthesia safer in 2022
“Your donation held us in good stead during the daunting struggle with COVID-19.” The impact of a donation of pulse oximeters to Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH) in Tanzania during the peak of the pandemic.
Lifebox is delighted to announce the appointment of Andreu Maldonado to its Global Governance Council. Andreu has extensive experience in nonprofit finance, management, and operations and currently serves as Deputy to the Secretary General of…
Anesthesia provider, William Baraka, on patient safety and pulse oximetry in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the impact of a Lifebox pulse oximeter
Professor Zoumenous tells us that today, no operation takes place in Benin without a pulse oximeter, and this is thanks to Lifebox.
My name is Belinda Karimi and I am a clinical nurse at the Agakhan Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, and a trainer for the Team CLEFT workshop – a professional working group of multidisciplinary health professionals, including surgeons, anesthesiologists, and…
Team CLEFT is a new workshop by Smile Train and Lifbox designed for nurses, anesthesia providers and surgeons which supports Cleft teams to learn together.
