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…
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…
When pulse oximeters were first introduced to hospitals in the 1980s, they were expensive, heavy, and scarce. Clinicians used to run, not walk, to the OR every morning – they wanted that life-saving device for their patient. Today, pulse…
ORD -> IAD -> SFO -> MSY -> SAN: Lifebox and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) go way back. And forth. And…
On October 16th, 1846, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston proved it was possible for patients to undergo surgery without the pain – the torture – that an operation had previously entailed. Nearly 170 years later,…
This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide…
In May 2015, we took on one of our biggest collaborations to date: safer surgery in every government hospital in Niger. Our super team: the Nigerien anaesthesia community, the Nigerien Ministry of Public Health and…
