Kris is passionate about humanitarian action, with a career spanning New York, Geneva, Monrovia and beyond. She saw the scale of the global surgery and anaesthesia crisis – and the critical need to address it – long before she knew Lifebox, and we’re utterly delighted that she’ll be leading the team. Time to get to […]
Lifebox sent an oximeter and the hospital found funding to buy some additional units. But Benson told us some very difficult stories about his anaesthesia practice, and we knew that these few units wouldn’t be enough to keep patients safely monitored in the operating rooms across the region. That was back in October. Coming on for […]
Lifebox investors (aka incredible donors) aren’t looking for financial returns. They know our currency is safer surgery and anaesthesia, and that we measure ourselves against a different gold standard. How many pulse oximeters have we distributed this year? How many partnerships did we create? What percentage of healthcare workers leave a Lifebox training workshop more […]
This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide project put training and a pulse oximeter into every government hospital and recovery setting. To celebrate this milestone, and thank the […]
Lifebox is a global non-profit tackling the global crisis of unsafe surgery. Through tools, training, and partnerships, we make surgery and anesthesia safer worldwide.
But how do you find yourself lead author on the latest research to prove it so? Lifebox spoke with Dr Vanessa Albert, junior doctor (and medical student at the time of research) about her experiences bridging implementation and academia. You’re lead author on a paper about the impact of Lifebox oximeter distribution in Malawi. Can you sum up […]
Distributing pulse oximeters across Afghanistan for essential monitoring of COVID-19 patients in rural areas.
An avid cyclist and the first Indian to win the world’s toughest endurance race, he’s the president of the Indian Society of Anaesthesiologists (ISA) Maharashtra chapter and an associate professor at NDMVP Medical College, Nashik. Happily for us, he’s also a member of the Lifebox training faculty in India – with some stories to tell. Tell […]
What is Clean Cut for Cleft and how will it make surgery for children with cleft safer? Clean Cut for Cleft is a new program – launched today by Smile Train and Lifebox – to tackle one of the greatest risks to surgical patients: infection.
Lifebox partners with two hospitals in Liberia to launch its surgical infection reduction program – Clean Cut.
