Excellent news: Germany will support launch of a new German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention. It will be located in Ghana, and be part of 8 new centers worldwide to fight global challenges.

The G-WAC draws on experience and expertise of at least three schools within the College of Health Sciences (i.e. School of Public Health, School of Allied Health Sciences, School of Medicine and Dentistry and School of Veterinary Medicine), and of two main German partners: the Berlin School of Public Health – (including Technische Universität Berlin [TUB] and Charité Universitätsmedizin – Berlin), and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB).

With our combined capacity to address the challenges of pandemic preparedness, expanding our institutional remit to establish a centre of excellence as a dedicated effort to advance state-of-the-art research and practice in Global Health with a focus on pandemic preparedness is both timely and of potentially great impact not only for Ghana but the rest of Africa.