Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
Tell us a bit about yourself – what’s your background, and why did you join the Lifebox team? I’m currently a general surgery resident at the University of California, San Francisco. After graduating from college and earning my Masters in…
How did you become passionate about promoting safe surgery and anesthesia? [EF] Five years ago this month I was fortunate start a Fellowship with the Lifebox Foundation, working to improve patient safety in global surgery and anesthesia…
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health University Representatives scheme is a unique opportunity for UK-based medical students to gain insight into the critical field of global surgery and health. I decided to join the programme to…
Cycling from London to China is a huge task, what inspired you to undertake such a challenge? Simon and I met in London three years ago. One of my earliest memories, is him telling me he was cycling from London…
The Lifebox-Students for Global Health scheme is about inspiring and leading medical students in educating others on the wider global surgery issues that may not be covered in their medical curriculums. As part of this, a group of reps from…
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…
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.
The provision of surgery has been an essential component of comprehensive healthcare delivery worldwide for over a century. Nevertheless, 5 billion people worldwide are still affected by lack of access to safe surgical care. The issue remains a global health…
