
Lifebox’s Top Achievements of 2024
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
Lifebox’s biggest achievements this past year for safer surgery and anesthesia
A coalition of global health organizations have united to address a critical gap in anesthesia safety: the lack of capnography in low-resource settings, a situation that is putting countless lives at risk.
Global health organizations partner to urge health care systems globally, to include a capnograph as an essential anesthesia monitor for safer surgery in a capnography action letter.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ADDIS ABABA/LONDON/NEW YORK: November 3, 2021 – Safe surgery non-profit Lifebox announced today results on the lasting impact of its surgical infection reduction program, Clean Cut. Published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery,…
"The most devastation came from the uncertainty that was associated with being on the frontline." Dr. Igaga talks about protecting the anesthesia workforce in Uganda.
Dr. Takuo Aoyagi’s invention of the pulse oximeter has saved the lives of millions of people across the globe.
Get raising funds for safer anesthesia and surgery worlwide with the ASA Resident Challenge for Lifebox. Resident programs all over the United States compete to fundraise for Lifebox. An appointed resident leader can visit the campaign website and sign up their team to begin building a custom landing page.
Lifebox is delighted to welcome two new members to its Global Governance Council: Dr. Susana del Carmen Abrego Tobar and Dr. Rob McDougall.
Discussing patient safety in Ethiopia and improving surgical teamwork with Lifebox Global Clinical Director Dr. Negussie and Global CEO Kris Torgeson
Lifebox co-signs letter to the UK government highlighting the need for vaccine equity across the world.
Lifebox is strongly committed to addressing inequities both within our organization and in the global surgery community. We have set ambitious goals for investing in staff, leadership, and innovation in the regions where we work to reduce our footprint in high-income countries.
As cases of COVID-19 surged in India, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) provided a rapid-response grant towards Lifebox’s India COVID-19 emergency efforts.
Lifebox congratulates Dr. Atul Gawande on his nomination by President Biden to the United States Agency for International Development.