Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
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…
In the leading article of this month’s British Journal of Surgery, Dr Tom Weiser and Dr Alex Haynes, authors of the landmark Checklist pilot study, explore how this seemingly-simple piece of paper has been proven to reduce surgical…
The Checklist is at the heart of Lifebox’s work to make surgery and anaesthesia safer in low-resource settings – and while uptake and impact can be extremely challenging, the Checklist’s transformational role in the global safe surgery…
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…
“We wanted to bring information and knowledge to the world-wide readership of A&A about anesthesia issues in LMICs,” explained Dr Enright. “Many people would have no idea about the challenges nor about what is being done…
What kind of surgical safety challenges do colleagues and their patients face in low-resource settings? Being Iraqi-British and having lived and worked in Baghdad during the mid-nineties after the second Gulf War, when most…
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The Oromia Regional Health Bureau (RHB) took a significant next step in its drive to make surgery and anaesthesia safer for tens of thousands of patients in the region, expanding the Clean…
We asked Daniel Berman. Daniel’s the Lead of the Global Health Team at Nesta, charged with taking the brilliant idea of a Surgical Equity Prize and bringing it to life.
At Lifebox, we’re determined to make safe surgery for every patient a right, not a privilege – and we’re expanding our team to meet the challenge. You’ll support the delivery of our programmes worldwide, with an emphasis on…
What difference can it make? We asked Joseph Nibigira and Muvunyi Pamphile, two nurse anaesthetists from Burundi, who attended a small Lifebox® workshop in Kibuye. Read on to hear from Joseph in English below. What…
Quelle différence cela peut-il faire? Nous avons posé quelques questions à Joseph Nibigira et Muvunyi Pamphile, deux infirmiers anesthésistes Burundais, qui ont suivi la formation Lifebox à Kibuye. Lisez la suite pour Muvunyi en français, et Joseph en…
