EECC Global is a non-profit working to promote EECC for all critically ill patients worldwide
Critically ill patients are neglected
We want to change the way that critical care is understood and provided. We have created a unifying approach to managing critically ill patients that is feasible, simple and cost-effective and has the potential to save 1 million lives globally each year
Our Board
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Tim Baker - Founder & President
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.
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Karima Khalid - Founder & Board Member
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.
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Raph Kazidule - Founder
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.
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Fatima Diaban - Treasurer
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).
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Carl Otto Schell - Founder & Vice President
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.
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Ryan Ellis - Board Member
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.
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Ana Maria Crawford - Board Member
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.
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Alexandra Wharton-Smith - Secretary
Alexandra Wharton-Smith is a global health technical advisor for donors, academic institutions, governments, UN agencies and NGOs. Alexandra holds a BA Hons in International Relations, an MSc in Control of Infectious Diseases and is a PhD Candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Alexandra co-led the global consensus Delphi on EECC treatments and actions and has been helping coordinate the EECC Network since it began. Alexandra serves as Secretary for EECC Global.