Tim Baker

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institutet and a Consultant Physician in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care. I am Honorary Lecturer at Muhimbili University of Health & Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

I have a long-standing interest in evaluating and improving global health services and health systems, primarily in the area of emergency and critical care, focusing on the provision of good quality care to acutely ill patients in low-resource settings. I have developed the concept of Essential
Emergency and Critical Care [1] and am Principle Investigator on the Provision of Essential Treatments in Critical Illness project. I have had consultancies with WHO, UNICEF, World Bank, USAID and PATH, am founder of the NGOs EECC Global [2] and Life Support Foundation [3] and am a member of several international research groups and collaborations.

From 2016-2019 I lived and worked in Blantyre, Malawi and from 2019 to 2026 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 

I received the Lancet-Elsevier Foundation Evidence To Impact Award in July 2026 and was profiled in The Lancet in September 2026. [3]

[1] https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2219-2

[2] www.eeccglobal.org
[3] https://www.lifesupportfoundation.org/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)01823-4/abstract?dgcid=twitter_organic_globalhealth_blue_lancet