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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…
Lifebox improves the quality and safety of surgical care in low-resource settings through the provision of pulse oximeters and training in the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. While the impact of the Checklist to reduce surgical morbidity and mortality has been…
We are thrilled to announce that Lifebox has been selected as the British Medical Journal’s holiday charity of 2012. Following the enormous success of last year‘s appeal, which raised more than £30,000…
It started with this photo: October 2011: Dr Jerry Cohen, ASA president elect and University of Florida associate professor, presents Lifebox chairman Atul Gawande with a GIANT CHEQUE. Actually that’s not true. It started with…
This is the road leading up to the Outpatient Department at Bungoma District Hospital, in Western Kenya, not far from the border with Uganda: And this is the queue of patients trying to…
The role We are looking for a committed volunteer to take on a number of administrative projects within Lifebox Foundation HQ in London. Ideally this would involve one full day or two half day’s commitment each week for a minimum…
(c) This Sweet Love Photography We might just find it annoying, if people in love weren’t so beautifully generous in their joy! Three happy couples, six friends of Lifebox, have taken a day that is supposed to…
Following our special session at Anesthesiology 2012 in Washington D.C. today, we are delighted to make available our new manual for how to deliver Lifebox training in the field. This draws on lessons learned from work across Africa, South East…
Well, in the 18 months since we got this global pulse oximetry gap in our sights and set out to Make It 0, we’ve knocked more than 3000 off the target! Thanks to the generosity…
The road from Gondar to Lalibela – beautiful but long.(c) Hailebet If you can’t get to hospital, you can’t get an emergency caesarian section, or life-saving surgery after a road traffic accident. If…
Back in May, we got a tantalizing email from Dr Faye Evans, assistant professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine, about the upcoming Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists (GSA) meeting.
