About EHHI University
The educational arm of the Essential Health For All Foundation — training health and agriculture professionals to close the gap between urban and rural Africa.
Rooted in a decade of rural health work
Essential Health Higher Institute (EHHI) is the official educational arm of the Essential Health For All Foundation (EHFAF), a non-governmental, non-political, non-religious, and non-racial/ethnic charity founded in 2009 by Ntogwiachu Daniel, a critical care nurse.
EHHI was established to address the health disparities between urban and rural Africa by training highly skilled, compassionate healthcare professionals and agricultural experts — people who can hold a patient's airway and a community's harvest.
History & Milestones
From a single founder's mission to a campus training hundreds of students a year.
EHFAF founded
Ntogwiachu Daniel founds the Essential Health For All Foundation to fill critical gaps in rural healthcare.
Ministry authorization
The Ministry of Public Health grants authorization for a permanent health facility.
First community health center
EHFAF's first community health center opens in Noon Division, in August 2022.
Ged Williams Campus inaugurated
The Ged Williams Education Campus opens, and EHHI holds its first matriculation ceremony — new students take the nursing pledge by lamplight, in the tradition of Florence Nightingale.
Partnership with the University of Bamenda
EHHI officially signs a partnership agreement with the University of Bamenda, formalising academic collaboration between the two institutions.
First cohort defends their research
Our first degree candidates in Nursing and Agricultural Production Technology successfully defend their research projects.
Ged Williams Education Campus — Foumbot, Cameroon
Located on CIMENCAM Street, left after Cimencam on the road to Bangante, our campus puts clinical and agricultural training side by side.
- State-of-the-art Medical Imagery Center with modern X-ray and mammography systems
- EHHI University Teaching Fish Farm for hands-on aquaculture training
- Health Center Model Gardens teaching sustainable agriculture and nutrition
- Simulation labs for clinical skills, emergency care and anesthesia training
Who leads EHHI
A team of clinicians and academics who split their time between the lecture hall and the field.
Ntogwiachu Daniel
Prof. Ged Williams
Prof. Kevin
Petrunela
Prof. Isabel Coetzee
Representing EHHI on the international stage
EHHI's anesthesia and critical-care faculty regularly join international gatherings alongside partner institutions — here, at an Interprofessional Emergency, Anesthesia & Critical Care collaboration hosted with the University of Rwanda in October 2025, building capacity while honouring colleagues lost in the line of duty.
From our students and board
I am so proud to be in EHHI and I can testify that I learned a lot from the training. Big thank you to Prof. Isabel and the director of EHHI for such opportunity.
It's a privilege to have recently joined the EHFA board. I live in Melbourne, Australia, and can tell you I can feel the excitement from here. Well done to all those involved.
Moments from EHHI
Come see the campus for yourself.
Applications for the 2026/2027 academic year are open. Early registration closes 31 August 2026.