Updates

Comrade Bunmi, pediatric nurse with over 20 years of nursing experience, discussed the challenges and barriers that nurses often face in leadership and her work advocating the role of nursing to shift the tide and build stronger, more inclusive healthcare systems.

Professor Miliard Derbew announced as Global Ambassador of the Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative.

A study, published in Annals of Surgery, calls for the protection of the healthcare workforce during COVID-19.

Lifebox looks at our top milestones from 2021 making surgery and anesthesia safer through tools, training, and partnerships.  

Lifebox congratulates its Chair and Co-Founder – Dr. Atul Gawande – on his confirmation today as the Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Lifebox partners with two hospitals in Liberia to launch its surgical infection reduction program – Clean Cut.

"You want to make sure that the surgery you are performing is safe for your patient so that no complications arise." OB-GYN Dr. Kezelebah Goyah discusses providing safe maternal healthcare in Liberia. 

Smile Train and Lifebox launch work for a capnography device specifically designed for low-resource settings to improve anesthesia safety for children around the world.

New Research Shows Lasting Impact of Lifebox Clean Cut Program - published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Surgery.

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,…