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
We’re so excited to attend this event because Lifebox works closely with nurse anaesthetists on the front line of anaesthesia care worldwide. Colleagues have championed our work and helped raise funds to support hospital…
We’ve heard a lot of stories of complication, injury and even death in surgery over the last five years – but not a single one begins with an operating room team saying: “Today we’re going to do unsafe surgery.” Even…
NGOs work best when they work together – and we’ve been working with Smile Train for as long as we can remember. From our earliest days to our fifth birthday, we’ve teamed…
Lifebox is excited to offer a Fellowship in Tanzania for a UK anaesthetic trainee (ST4 or above) or consultant anaesthetist (current or retired) keen to make a significant contribution to anaesthesia care in a low-resource setting. We…
Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery is a broad area of specialization that cuts across race, tribe and gender. But the impact of the surgical revolution on the outcome of breast cancer – the most…
In the developing countries we are facing a massive surgical disease burden – and women are affected severely. From ever increasing trauma to obstetrics and gynecological issues and female cancers like breast cancer. Access to safe and timely surgery are…
We know exactly where the time goes. In the last five years we’ve made surgery and anaesthesia safer for 10 million people, across 100 countries worldwide. We’ve worked with extraordinary individuals and organisations, committed to safer care for their patients and…
Sometimes progress is quiet – and sometimes it goes beep! Like a pulse oximeter, the most essential monitoring device in modern anaesthesia. Providers all over the world tell us what vital information and comfort they take from the sound of…
Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery is important in women’s health because women are a fundamental part of the society we live in. Surgery can prevent a large number of deaths from cancers of the…
Why is surgery such an important aspect of women’s health? Surgery offers an extraordinary healthcare intervention: delving into a patients’ vital organs with the knife, with benevolent intent. But the surgeon’s impact is holistic: our work goes beyond the operative…
