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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…
The Mersey School of Anaesthesia is a stalwart supporter of Lifebox®, putting hands in pocket to raise more than £15,000 in personal contributions and core funds the last four years. We’re enormously grateful for the support – and pleased to…
Lifebox® and ESA in Uzbekistan: safer anaesthesia training workshop Lifebox® Foundation is proud to be working in partnership with the European Society of Anaesthesia (ESA) and the Uzbekistan Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care (…
As Dr Rebecca Jacob makes clear in her interview for International Women’s Day, unsafe surgery in India isn’t a case of unwillingness – it’s context that can kill. We’ve worked with hospitals across the country to put pulse oximeters in…
Anaesthesia providers in Uganda lack access to almost everything that we take for granted in high-resource setting practice: basic drugs, monitoring equipment, support staff, continuous learning. And every week they treat a nightmare caseload: ruptured uteruses, road traffic accidents, severe…
In August 2014, Lifebox trustee Dr Isabeau Walker travelled with long-time Lifebox friend and president of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland (COI) Dr Ellen O’Sullivan to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, in the south of the country. Last…
(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…
