Faye Evans: Hi guys, thanks for coming. Thanks for letting me interview you, I really appreciate it. Do I have permission to record you? Just to make sure that’s OK with both of you? Danai Marange and Tsitsi Chimhundu: Yes, that’s fine. Faye: I’m Faye Evans. I’m a member of the global council at Lifebox. […]
As Lifebox chairman, surgeon, author and casual time traveler Atul Gawande (bodily in Boston and telegenically in London) explained by video, “the global health landscape is changing. For the first time in history, you’re more likely to be killed by a surgically-treatable condition than a communicable disease.” The struggle to activate a response to this […]
“We’re here today to talk about surgery,” said Lord Bernard Ribeiro, vice chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Global Health, as he welcomed the audience to the Houses of Parliament yesterday. “Not as a luxury, but as something that changes lives.” Past the policemen, across Westminster Hall and over the commemorative plaques […]
Kris is a former Secretary General of Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) International based in Switzerland where she led an extensive governance reform process, while ensuring coordination of all facets of MSF’s worldwide humanitarian operations. Following nearly fifteen years with MSF, including a field deployment as part of MSF’s Ebola response team in Liberia, […]
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 […]
It’s an impressive site, as a referral hospital for more than 2 million people needs to be. But you don’t travel all this way just to lark around with the birds, so let’s take a look at life on the ground. Originally set up by a Norwegian civil society organisation, the hospital is now […]
Back in the late 1990s, an Ethiopian doctor was working with a Norwegian institution to fund a plastic surgery unit at his hospital. When he wanted to speak to them by phone, he’d stay at his mother’s house to use the landline. When they needed to email him he’d go to the university library, ask […]
Lifebox congratulates its Chair and Co-Founder – Dr. Atul Gawande – on his confirmation today as the Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Lifebox partners with two hospitals in Liberia to launch its surgical infection reduction program – Clean Cut.
