Division of Critical Care

The Division of Critical Care is a department in the School of Clinical Medicine in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Its publications show research strengths in critical care and intensive care medicine, with work on sepsis, acute respiratory distress syndrome and acute liver failure. Studies also address transplant infectious disease, HIV-associated critical illness and COVID-19 outcomes, alongside interests in genomic medicine and molecular regulation.

Further themes include paediatric intensive care, pragmatic clinical trials and multicentre collaboration, with attention to critical illness in high-burden settings and resource constraints. The research is focused on South Africa and draws on national surveillance analyses.