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Background of the School (Brief background, purpose and relevance)

 

The Fred N. Binka School of Public Health of the University of Health and Allied Sciences started in September 2013 to offer courses leading to the award of degrees in Public Health. In September 2021, the School was renamed Fred N. Binka School of Public Health. The Fred N. Binka School of Public Health (FNSPH) is located on the Hohoe Campus, using as incubating facilities of the former Onchocerciasis Chemotherapy Research Centre (OCRC) and Hohoe Municipal Hospital (now Volta Regional Hospital). The School’s student enrollment as at the 2024/2025 academic year stands at 2,312. This includes undergraduate regular, undergraduate sandwich, Master of Public Health (Regular and weekend), MPhil Applied Epidemiology (regular and weekend) and Doctor of Public Health. FNBSPH provides education and training to learners who are ‘health systems’ ready to transform the health of Ghanaians and other nationals.

 

ACADEMIC STRUCTURE

The Fred N. Binka School of Public Health is currently organized into four main departments:

  • Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

  • Department of Family and Community Health.

  • Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management.

  • Department of Population and Behavioural Sciences.

 

Together, the four departments run programmes leading to the award of various public health degrees.

Each department is dedicated to providing leadership to achieve the highest standards of education and research, for our undergraduate students. The departments are also mandated to train both scholars and practitioners: scholars whose research will shed light on basic social determinants of health and who will identify and test innovative

social policy and service interventions; practitioners who are skilled in designing, implementing and evaluating health-enhancing interventions in action settings.