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
(c) African Mission In 2010 we sent him our first pulse oximeter. Lifebox wasn’t even Lifebox back then – it was the Global Pulse Oximetry Project, fresh from a worldwide tendering process led by…
We’ve had an incredible year, and our 2014 Annual Review celebrates by taking to the skies. Inspired by the countries we’ve visited, the people we’ve met, and the fascinating link between aviation and surgical safety, this is an ‘inflight magazine’…
Since you’re reading this online, you’re obviously a tech-savvy sort – so are we! Lifebox has been recognised in the 2014 Nominet Trust 100: a list of the world’s most inspiring ventures that use digital technology as a tool…
The 70,000 global pulse oximeter gap keeps us busy. Not a day goes by without a Lifebox oximeter winging its way across earth and sea and sky to anaesthesia providers in the most remote hospitals worldwide, delivering…
Put the 2016 Olympics in your global health calendar – we’re going to Rio! Or at least we’re going to #Lifeboxes4Rio, as our co-founders at Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI) launch a…
This is a map of where to find fish in Lake Malawi. The 3 million year old basin lapping against the ‘The Warm Heart of Africa”s eastern border has a unique biodiversity of cold-blooded residents.
Global anaesthesia starts at home, and ASA members have a wealth of experience to share. That’s why GHO and Lifebox are delighted to announce a series of masterclasses taking place at ANESTHESIOLOGY 2014. What’s the one…
Summer is winding down but AAGBI members are turning up the gears on their carbon frame bikes! They’re getting ready to pedal off this weekend for the Annual Congress in Harrogate – breaking a sweat, raising money and saving…
Not every comic is meant to be funny. While the Scottish city of Dundee’s classic troublemaker Dennis the Menace always lunged for the elbow, one of its newer residents has gone for the incision.
