ABOUT G-WAC
Background
The German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC) is a research and training Centre hosted by the College of Health Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana. The Centre collaborates with the Technical University of Berlin, Charité- University of Medicine Berlin, the University of Bonn, and the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
G-WAC is in its second funding phase with the strategic aim to strengthen passive, integrated epidemic One Health surveillance systems using low-cost, scalable methods suitable for low- and middle-income countries.
G-WAC is funded through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) using funding from the German Federal Foreign Office for the establishment of the Global Health and Pandemic Prevention centre at KNUST.