Why did you choose to apply for and work with Lifebox for your residency fellowship? For my residency research time, I really wanted to work with an academic global surgery group that would give me the opportunity to live and work on the ground. Lifebox’s approach is very much about building local partnerships, and […]
“I have just returned from a visit to the Children’s Heart Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with the charity Chain of Hope, two organizations dedicated to helping children with congenital heart disease in low-income countries. Chain of Hope has introduced the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist as a quality standard for all their missions, and we […]
When you were growing up what did you want to be? When I was growing up I wanted to be doctor. Just like any child, I wanted to be doctor but didn’t know the reason, as time went by, my reasons got clearer and clearer. What motivated you to become an anaesthesiologist? I never planned […]
That’s why Lifebox® is committed to working directly with professional communities – like the Ethiopian Society of Anesthesiologists Professional Association (ESAPA). ESAPA members make an incredible difference to patients across Ethiopia – and we were very proud to support their 8th Annual Conference, earlier this month in Addis Ababa! A presentation by Dr Jared Forrester, […]
In January this year we had the opportunity to sit down with our first Lifebox fellows to discuss their upcoming placements in Ethiopia and Uganda. In collaboration with the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI), the Difficult Airway Society (DAS), the Royal College of Anaesthetists (RCoA) and World Anaesthesia Society (WAS), two senior anaesthetic trainees […]
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 oximeter for monitoring patients during anesthesia and has now put the Lifebox pulse oximeter in […]
We will post these interviews as quickly as we can to raise awareness about what partners face as they care for patients in already resource-constrained contexts. We are paying special attention to the work of anesthesia providers who in addition to being essential for surgery, also manage critical and intensive care units in many parts […]
Lifebox looks at our top milestones from 2021 making surgery and anesthesia safer through tools, training, and partnerships.
Lifebox appoints five new roles to the leadership of its global Lifebox team.
The Global Governance Council oversees the Lifebox team and safer surgery vision
