Established: 1994
Affiliation: University of Ghana School of Public Health, Accra

Director: Dr. Fred K. Wurapa
Tel: +233-21-50-72-00
Mail: wurapaf@gmail.com


Overview

The University of Ghana School of Public Health was established in 1994. Its primary objectives are to respond to the professional manpower needs of the Ministry of Health and to address the numerous existing and emerging healthcare challenges facing the country, through the conduct of research and the training of a wide range of skills in various public health disciplines.

The school has five departments:

1. Epidemiology
2. Biostatistics
3. Population, Family and Reproductive Health
4. Biological Basis of Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
5. Social and Behavioural Science
6. Health Policy, Planning and Management

The school's 35 teaching staff is headed by a director and deputy director, with heads of each of the departments serving under them.

The school manages the following grants:

1. School-Age child project grant from Edna McConnel Clark Foundation
2. The Health of Women in Accra by The National Population Council
3. Teaching Hospitals Autonomy Study with Harvard School of Public Health
4. Development of malaria immunity in a rural Ghanaian community by WHO/TDR
5. Two grants from Gates for the Ghana Malaria Centre, and the Gates Population, Family and Reproductive Health Foundation

Previous granters include the Rockefeller Foundation, DANIDA, UNFPA, and UNICEF.