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
Happy new year! We got a lot of beautiful cards and messages of season’s greetings from around the world as 2016 approached – but two of our favourite notes arrived from Uganda, just before the festive season. Thanks to…
But we know there’s more work to be done, in surgery – and other fields where a pulse oximeter can make the difference between life and death. Thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we…
If you know what we’re talking about, then you’re already a fan of our founder and chair Atul Gawande. And if you don’t, you should definitely click the links above! As a New York Times bestseller and…
Saturday 12 December is Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC), a rallying call to action to ensure global access to affordable and quality health care services for all when needed. Health for all? We say: yes! So do…
(c) Leprosy Mission We met volunteer nurse Erin Horn through friends at Mercy Ships. The name Anandaban, she told us, literally means ‘forest of joy,’ and the hospital is ‘a sanctuary for those affected by…
All roads lead to Zambia this week, as we co-host the 4th Lifebox and SAFE Obstetric Anaesthesia course in Ndola, the third-largest city. We are so proud to be collaborating with our co-founders the Association of Anaesthetists of…
This spring we announced our second technical stream of work, in collaboration with the GE Foundation and local partners: reduction of surgical site infection. Led by Lifebox trustee and global surgery expert Tom Weiser, this…
Lifebox® was invited to attend the very first World Airway Management Meeting (WAMM), hosted by the Difficult Airway Society (DAS) and the Society for Airway Management (SAM) in Dublin from 12 to…
Getting to know the anaesthesia community over the last few years is just one of the privileges we’ve had, as we work towards safer surgery and anaesthesia worldwide. It’s a wide-ranging, dynamic – and generous! – group. …
Lifebox was selected as of the Nominet Trust’s 100 organisations using tech for good, and we know our way around social media. But there’s something special about seeing our name in fresh, inky, smudgeable print…
