Inauguration Ceremony of the Ghanaian-German Center for Development Studies and Health Research at the University of Ghana.

The Secretary General of the DAAD, Dr. Christian Bode, and the DAAD Director of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Dr. Helmut Blumbach inaugurated today the Ghanaian-German Center for Development Studies and Health Research at the University of Ghana.
The Ghanaian-German Center for Development Studies and Health Research is one of the five African Centers of Excellence funded under the African Excellence Program of the German Foreign Office and facilitated by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
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 a Center for Development Studies that provides Ghanaian and other African PhD-students in the field of development studies with advanced theoretical, methodological and leadership training. In the 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 Parasitological and Infection Biology).