We are excited to share GEC's crisp, new look with you. Thanks to the excellent work and a generous donation of their time and expertise from Created for the People, a strategic branding and identity design firm, we have overhauled our…
Happy Spring! As you know, GECC is a small nonprofit doing big things. We've been hard at work in 2017 growing the ECP Training Program and prerparing to launch the new class of ECP students at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.…
'd like to congratulate Dr. Joseph Kalanzi, a long-time GECC partner, on his newly published research in the Annals of Emergency Medicine. The research, entitled, Getting It Right the First Time: Defining Regionally Relevant Training Curricula and Provider Core Competencies for…
I am excited to announce a new partnership between GECC, LifeNet International, and the AllPeopleBeHappy Foundation. As co-collaborators, GECC and LifeNet International were recently awarded a Challenge Grant from the AllPeopleBeHappy Foundation for a program to transform emergency care in the Masaka District of…
We are very excited to introduce our new Program Directors at Masaka and Nyakibale: Rashidah Nambaziira and Kioske Tobias. Rashidah Nambaziira is GECC's new Program Director at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital where she has been working very hard to prepare…
Written By: Dr. Brad Dreifuss, GECC Board Member Those who know me know I loathe “hallmark holidays”. But, when asked to write a blog post about Father’s Day, immediately, the suggestion struck a cord and I knew what story I…
As a mother of two young children, ages 3 and 4, the arrival of Mother’s Day has prompted me to pause and reflect on how lucky I am to be a mother and how lucky my children are to have…
March 8th is International Women’s Day. This year the global theme is Make it Happen, encouraging effective action for advancing and recognizing women. Around the world, organizations, governments, and women’s groups come together to mark the past, present, and future…
Global Emergency Care Collaborative would like to extend a warm and gracious welcome to Ben McIsaac, our new Uganda Program Director. Ben has already been hard at work at Nyakibale since December and we are lucky to have him. We…
One brisk “ring” and then silence. I jolt from a deep, and too short, sleep into the darkness of the Nyakibale guest house in rural Uganda. Confused at first, I listen to the drops of rain on the metal roof…