EECC Global is a non-profit organization promoting EECC for all critically ill patients worldwide

Tim Baker is an Associate Professor, Critical Care Physician and Anesthesiologist with positions at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and LSHTM and QMUL in the UK. Tim has 20 years’ experience of global critical care research, programmatic and clinical work and has worked with WHO, World Bank, UNICEF, USAID, PATH, WFSA, and the Centre for Global Development. Tim conducts consultancies and leads global collaborative research and capacity building programs, focusing on health systems innovations and strategies for ensuring the provision of foundational, cost-effective care to critically ill patients.

Karima Khalid is a Lecturer and Senior Consultant at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences and Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute with over 15 years of experience in critical care, anaesthesia, health systems research and policy engagement. She is a leading critical care expert in Tanzania and has extensive experience in capacity building and educational projects. She is engaged in various global critical care initiatives and has numerous publications in EECC and critical care. She serves in the WFSA’s Critical Care Committee, CANECSA’s Education and Scientific Committee and is one of the regional directors of VAST. She is currently leading the UNICEF supported implementation of EECC in Tanzania.

Raphael is a dedicated Nurse Midwife and practiced Critical Care Nurse with a Master's degree in Epidemiology. He has a diverse background, including 4 years of clinical practice in the Intensive Care Unit at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, 2 years of clinical education at Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, 4 years of clinical research at the College of Medicine, and 3 years of project management at PATH. Currently, Raphael leads PATH in Malawi as the Country Representative, where he spearheads the implementation of medical devices and sustainable oxygen access projects, driving impactful healthcare improvements across the country.

Fatima Diaban is an Adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine. She is a Critical Care and Neurocritical Care physician and also Trained in Emergency Medicine. Fatima has a passion for Global health and conducted a small self-led project during the Covid-19 pandemic to help increase oxygen access in her native country Senegal. Fatima thrives to increase access to critical care in various parts of the world where resources are constrained by also helping train healthcare workers in Fundamentals of Critical Care course and point of care ultrasound (POCUS).

Carl Otto Schell is a senior consultant physician and a researcher in global critical care at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. He has many years clinical experience in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Emergency and Critical Care. His research projects in Tanzania, Malawi, Sri Lanka and Sweden focus on the potential of effective, feasible, low-cost actions in health care that are often overlooked in policy, research and medical practice. His work involves collaborations with universities around the world and with UNICEF, WHO and the World Bank.

Inspired by the experience of large unmet needs of fundamental critical care across different settings world-wide, Carl Otto co-invented EECC in 2018, led the subsequent global consensus and initiated the EECC Network.

Ryan is an anaesthetist currently based in The Royal London Hospital, UK, and works within the Perioperative and Critical Care Research department. He has experience working in the UK, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania. As well as activities within the EECC Leadership Council, he is a member of the APPRISE (African Partnership for Perioperative and Critical Care Research) and current President of GASOC (Global Anaesthesia, Obstetric and Surgery Collaboration). He has worked with several WFSA associated education programmes, including SAFE and VAST courses.

Board certified in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, Ana founded the Division of Global Health Equity within the Department of Anesthesiology at Stanford University School of Medicine in the USA. She is now their Director of Global Engagement Strategy. Ana serves on multiple committees at the local, state, national and international levels and also serves as an advisor to several international organizations. Creator and Editor-in-Chief of the Global Anesthesia and Critical Care Learning Resource Center ("the LRC"), this open-access education platform reached over 8000 learners from 145 countries during COVID-19. Ana helps to lead many of the training efforts for the Essential Emergency and Critical Care Network.

Alexandra Wharton-Smith is a technical advisor who works with academic institutions, governments, donors, UN agencies and NGOs. She holds an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases and a PhD in Health Services Research from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Alexandra has extensive experience in research and implementation across diverse health settings. She co-led the global consensus work on Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) and currently lectures on global health. 

Rodrigo (MD MPH PhD) is a Cardiovascular anaesthesiologist from Chile. He has a Master's degree in Public Health, a PhD in Biomedical Ethics and Law and is completing a PhD on Public Policies. After working in academia for a number of years, he became involved with the humanitarian sector, having missions in the DRC, Chad, Somaliland, and Sudan, among other countries.

Anna is a medical doctor and dedicated EECC researcher and capacity builder, currently perusing her PhD at Karolinska Institute (SE) and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (TZ). She has been involved in global EECC research for more than 10 years and worked clinically in Sweden for five years. Since 2024, she is fully engaged in EECC as part of the Tanzanian EECC hub - where she continues researching bottlenecks to EECC provision, has gained technical experience in EECC implementation and coordinated the development of the on-site EECC training course.

Rodwell is a Malawian critical care nurse and Senior Lecturer at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHeS). He holds a PhD in Nursing from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and recently completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students at KUHeS and at universities beyond Malawi.

He serves on the Editorial Board of Curationis and is the current President of the Critical Care Nurses Association of Malawi.

Godfrey Barabona is an experienced health systems and infectious disease researcher and clinician. He holds a PhD from Kumamoto University, Japan, and a Doctor of Medicine (MD) from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Tanzania. He serves as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Kumamoto University and an Adjunct Lecturer at MUHAS. Dr. Barabona leads the research team in Tanzania, where he is dedicated to building evidence and implementing Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC).

Emily Tegnell (MD), is an anesthetist and intensivist at Sahlgrenska Hospital, Göteborg, in Sweden. She finished her residency in 2021. She is an EECC champion, an ambassador of World Federation of Intensive and Critical Care, and vice president of Nordic Network for Global Surgery and Anesthesia. She has global medical experience with Doctors without borders in DR Congo, Rotary Doctors in Kenya and Scandinavian Doctors in Zambia. Furthermore she’s active as an APLS instructor and Yoga teacher.

Richard is a UK Critical Care Physician and Anesthesiologist who has supported medical education in several countries in Sub Saharan Africa since 2005. His research interests include electronic early warning systems to detect critical illness, and prognostic prediction models. His enthusiasm for EECC began with contributing to the global consensus & since then has been actively involved in the development of EECC educational resources.

Jonna is a researcher and senior consultant at the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive care at Västervik Hospital. Since 2006 Jonna has been engaged in collaborative research between Linköping University and Gondar University, Ethiopia. Initially in the field of tuberculosis and since 2018 in anaesthesia, critical care, patient safety and simulation based education.

Jonna is the chair of SESAC, Swedish Ethiopian Surgery and Anaesthesia Cooperation, a member of the Swedish Hub of EECC and an ambassador for EECC Global.