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

This is a map of where to find fish in Lake Malawi. The 3 million year old basin lapping against the ‘The Warm Heart of Africa”s eastern border has a unique biodiversity of cold-blooded residents. This is a map of the voter breakdown during Malawi’s fourth multi-party election, in 1993. And this is a map showing the start […]

NEW YORK – July 11, 2022 – Smile Train, the world’s largest cleft organization, today launches a new venture with Lifebox, the global nonprofit organization that makes surgery safer in low-resource settings, to distribute 11,000 pulse oximeters to 20 countries. This distribution, a key milestone of the Smile Train-Lifebox Safe Surgery and Anesthesia Initiative, will […]

Watch the video on the VIA home page, which focuses on Vanderbilt’s relationship with the Kijabe Hospital, in Kenya.  Panning down crowded hospital corridors, the images are stark and the voices are shocked. “What do you do with a girl that needs a caesarean section?” VIA director Dr Mark Newton recalls asking a clinician at […]

Founded in 2011 by four leading global health organizations and chaired by Dr. Atul Gawande, the organization utilizes tools, training, and partnerships to help improve the delivery of safe surgery globally. Lifebox’s flagship program developed a low-cost and low-resource-adapted pulse oximeter for monitoring patients during anesthesia and has now put the Lifebox pulse oximeter in […]

“We have a couple of monitors from the US.  Lovely, lovely multi-parameter monitors – but they only work with a battery.  And they didn’t send the battery.” “People send things with the best of intentions, but they’re not thinking about where these things are going to be used,” explained Dr Eva Manciles-Robert, when she visited […]

A sincere thank you to the students and faculty at South University for hosting another successful fundraiser for Lifebox! Our work is only possible because of our supporters – and around the world, lives are saved because of it. We are also thankful to the staff, sponsors, and donors for helping anesthesia providers receive the […]

Lifebox works with in-country and international volunteers around the world to make our work possible.  Daniela Rebollo Salazar, a student at New York University’s (NYU) medical school, has just returned from Ethiopia, where she carried out a pulse oximeter needs assessment for Lifebox. In this interview, Daniela shares her experiences and thoughts on the oximetry […]

When you were growing up what did you want to be? Interestingly, up to after my O-levels, I wanted to be a doctor, specifically a gynaecologist. Well, I guess I got the easier way into medicine by working with medics, if this counts. What motivated you to get involved with Kenya Society of Anaesthesiologists? I […]

We might just find it annoying, if people in love weren’t so beautifully generous in their joy! Three happy couples, six friends of Lifebox, have taken a day that is supposed to be all about them and made it about the difference they can make to other people, by putting the Lifebox surgical safety mission […]