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Germany inaugurates academic centre at the University of Ghana

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The German government has inaugurated a Centre for Development Studies and Health Research at the University of Ghana, Legon in Accra Tuesday June 16, 2009.

The inauguration of the Ghanaian-German Center for Development Studies and Health Research was done jointly by the Secretary General of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dr. Christian Bode, and its Director,  Dr. Helmut Blumbach.

The Centre is one of five African Centers of Excellence funded under the African Excellence Program of the German Foreign Office and facilitated by the DAAD.

According to a press release issued from the German Embassy in Accra and copied to ghanabusinessnews.com, the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana, Legon and the Center for Development Research (ZEF), at the University of Bonn, Germany will establish the Centre that will provide Ghanaian and other African PhD students in the field of development studies with advanced theoretical, methodological and leadership training.

The Centre will also offer a joint PhD teaching programme “ACBRIDGE – Bridging academic institutions” at the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, “interdisciplinary working groups” will cooperate on specific regionally relevant research foci from different angles (public health, social sciences, epidemiology, clinical sciences, biosciences).

The PhD programme will be supported by University Hospital Heidelberg (Section Clinical Tropical Medicine); University of Bielefeld (School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology & International Public Health); Swiss Tropical Institute (Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology), it added.

By Emmanuel K. Dogbevi



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  1. Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis says:
    July 7, 2009 at 12:54 am

    The cooperation between the University of Ghana and Germany in establishng a Centre for Development Studies and Health Research at University of Ghana, Legon is a welcome advancement.

    It is hoped that the Centre offers sustainable research and cooperation with the many underserved and rural communities throughout Ghana. Within the context of access to medical care, treatment and laboratory facilities, evidence based practice and treatment in Ghana, reflect significant disparities amongst rural, urban and underserved communities. Regional differences also contribute to these demographic patterns. It is hoped that the work of the Centre will introduce methods for eliminating many of these disparities thereby contributing to the full security of Ghana.

    Thank you for the opportunity to comment.

    Dr. I.M. Spence-Lewis; Board Member
    Community Directed Development Foundation (Ghana)

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