Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
Lifebox, the international non-profit dedicated to improving the safety of surgery and anesthesia around the world and SPECT, the Canadian-based non-profit established to improve instrument decontamination and sterilization processes in resource-constrained countries, are piloting the training course in…
“If one of us can’t make it to the top, the other has to finish it.” At the end of August, Dr Ed Fitzgerald and I fundraised for Lifebox through our climb up Mt Kilimanjaro. We had been…
In this month’s leading article on surgical innovation from JAMA Surgery, Lifebox Special Advisor and former trustee Thomas Weiser, MD, MPH, along with former Ethiopia Safe Surgery Fellow Jared Forrester, MD and our Global CEO Kris Torgeson, MSc, MPhil, delved…
Founded in 2011 by four leading global health organizations and chaired by Dr. Atul Gawande, the organization utilizes tools, training, and partnerships to help improve the delivery of safe surgery globally. Lifebox’s flagship program developed a low-cost and low-resource-adapted pulse…
Tell us a bit about yourself – what’s your background, and why did you join the Lifebox team? I’m currently a general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. After graduating from college and earning my Masters in…
How did you become passionate about promoting safe surgery and anesthesia? [EF] Five years ago this month I was fortunate start a Fellowship with the Lifebox Foundation, working to improve patient safety in global surgery and anesthesia…
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health University Representatives scheme is a unique opportunity for UK-based medical students to gain insight into the critical field of global surgery and health. I decided to join the programme to…
Cycling from London to China is a huge task, what inspired you to undertake such a challenge? Simon and I met in London three years ago. One of my earliest memories, is him telling me he was cycling from London…
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health scheme is about inspiring and leading medical students in educating others on the wider global surgery issues that may not be covered in their medical curriculums. As part of this, a group of reps from…
Hello everyone, This is my first blog as a student representative for Lifebox! How did I get involved with Lifebox – and why? My interest in global surgery and anaesthesia and…
