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Dr. Atul Gawande Co-founded Lifebox and served as Chair of the organization for its first ten years. As Chair, he oversaw Lifebox’s global work to improve the safety of surgery and anesthesia worldwide.

Here we learn more about his mission – “safe anaesthesia equals safer surgery.” Can you talk about some of the challenges that anaesthesia providers face in delivering safe surgical care in your region? If you see today’s newspaper in India you will find a story: “Death of 36 children because of lack of oxygen in […]

Although your Lifebox Fellowship at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre is just beginning, you could say your relationship with the hospital goes way back… Yes – it came about in a strange way!  I read about KCMC when I was 16.  There were two books that I found so inspirational – one called Half the Sky, […]

I was born and raised in Zimbabwe, specifically in Bulawayo the second largest city in the country affectionately known as ‘The City of Kings.’ For half my life I lived in this beautiful city, with its wide roads, tree lined boulevards and beautiful parks. Bulawayo was once the country’s industrial hub and is still called, […]

  This spring we announced our second technical stream of work, in collaboration with the GE Foundation and local partners: reduction of surgical site infection. Led by Lifebox trustee and global surgery expert Tom Weiser, this 18 month project will be piloted in Ethiopia, and focusing on systematic ways to combat this devastating complication for surgical […]

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 […]

With extensive international experience and being fluent in English, French and Spanish, Violeta is well placed to support Lifebox’s global reach. So we couldn’t wait to learn more… What interested you about Lifebox as an organization and as a cause? As the leading NGO making surgery and anaesthesia safer, the first time I heard about […]

Not every comic is meant to be funny. While the Scottish city of Dundee’s classic troublemaker Dennis the Menace always lunged for the elbow, one of its newer residents has gone for the incision. Handiwork: surgery in sequential art, by Emmanouil Kapazoglou, adapts the comic strip format to tell a serious story that is both […]

When we first heard about the Boston Lifebox Challenge earlier this year, we knew better than to get caught in the crossfire!  We watched as ideas, enthusiasm and events ricocheted across the city, and are thrilled to duck and share, with our thanks, the below article  straight from the website of one of the challengers: “When […]

Take, for instance, the recent collaboration between the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and the Mongolian Society of Anesthesiologists (MSA) to deliver the first Lifebox training and distribution project in Mongolia. Dr Simon Hendel, an Australian anaesthetist who wrote about Lifebox last year for the Global Health […]