At Lifebox, we’re determined to make safe surgery for every patient a right, not a privilege – and we’re expanding our team to meet the challenge. You’ll support the delivery of our programmes worldwide, with an emphasis on finance. Based in central London but with the possibility of occasional travel to project sites in Africa, […]
If you’re keen to learn about global health and have 2-3 days available per week in the coming months, please consider applying for this exciting fixed-term post. PURPOSE OF ROLE To support the various administrative needs of our operations, ranging from support to seasonal giving campaigns and events, to travel bookings and the organizing of […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards a Grand Challenges initiative to Lifebox to improve the safety of cesarean-sections in Ethiopia.
Dr. Yifru on working where equipment is limited and the difference a capnograph makes for patients
On October 16th, 1846, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston proved it was possible for patients to undergo surgery without the pain – the torture – that an operation had previously entailed. Nearly 170 years later, and 5 billion people around the world are still waiting to feel the benefits. For too many people, […]
The South African Society of Anaesthesiologists (SASA) is the latest organization to join the Make It 0 campaign – and they don’t hang about. You can read all about SASA’s enthusiastic support for Lifebox in a letter to the editor in the most recent issue of the Southern African Journal of Anaesthesia and Analgesia (SAJAA) […]
The latest and greatest news from our project with the Kenya Society of Anaesthesiologists (KSA) and WPP-Scangroup Limited is a sign of more than just a successful partnership: it’s a model for sustainable, life-saving change across a whole country. On 20th June, in the central region of Embu, 30 anaesthesia providers from 14 facilities joined together for training in pulse […]
Aoyagi did not receive that honor in his lifetime but, this year, the ASA posthumously bestows its highest honor for a nonmember in recognition of work that has truly transformed not only the practice of anesthesiology but all of health care, and in doing so has touched the lives of billions. Author: Alexander Hannenberg, MD
Dr. Takuo Aoyagi’s invention of the pulse oximeter has saved the lives of millions of people across the globe.
Global Surgery: The Road Less Traveled and How to Get Back on Track
