It’s Friday 10th of February and for the first time this year I didn’t wake up in Bristol to a cold, dark world of dustbin men and frozen windscreens. Instead I woke up to the sound of the mosque at 5am, to dogs barking outside my window, and to unfamiliar birdsong. If thousands of miles […]
What global surgery experience did you have before starting your Lifebox Fellowship? At the end of my medical school training I wanted to see what surgery was like elsewhere – my experience had only been in the United States. I spent time at a couple hospitals in Nepal, which was incredibly eye-opening. I took call […]
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 across a number of low-income countries. This was a unique opportunity to learn about the gap in safe […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards a Grand Challenges initiative to Lifebox to improve the safety of cesarean-sections in Ethiopia.
Lifebox events at WCA addressing global access to capnography with Smile Train and WFSA
Medical students are the future of global surgery. Chronology, multiplied by epidemiology, to the power of social media – it’s a fierce equation that looks to balance the inequity in surgical and anaesthetic access, safety, participation and voice. Last month we saw the future in action, as Lifebox teamed up with the Medsin National Global Surgical Working Group […]
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 […]
A pulse oximeter is an essential piece of monitoring equipment that keeps patients safe during surgery. Lifebox has distributed 35,000 pulse oximeters worldwide
When you were growing up what did you want to be? There were many things I wanted to become while I was growing up and it kept on changing with what inspired or influenced me. I guess when I was small being a doctor was the most inspiring profession than all. But when the time […]
Event Director and Founder, Nicholas Rutherford tells us more about this innovative event below. What is the concept behind AidEx, and why was the conference launched six years ago? AidEx was launched in 2011 to help the international aid and development community engage with the private sector and network with fellow professionals. There was […]
