Welcome to KHRC
Kintampo Health Research Centre is a well-established, African-based, research centre. The African identity of KHRC is important as it emphasises African solutions to African health challenges. KHRC is one of three field research centres of the Health Research Unit of Ghana Health Service established in 1994. KHRC is situated in the middle belt of Ghana in the Brong Ahafo Region. However the work of KHRC has implications for health policy and practice throughout Ghana and Africa.
News/Update
KHRC donates medical equipment to the Techiman Municipal Health Directorate.
The Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) has been collaborating with some district and municipal health directorates in the Brong Ahafo Region since its inception. To maintain and strengthen this collaboration, the KHRC has donated fifteen (15) different types of weighing scales to the Techiman Municipal Health Directorate (MHD) of the Ghana Health Service. Speaking at a brief presentation ceremony which took place at the premises of the Municipal Health Directorate in Techiman on ...»
Director of Public Health visits KHRC
The Director of Public Health of the Ghana Health Service, Dr. Joseph Amankwa paid a working visit to the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) as part of the strategies to strengthen the surveillance of cerebrospinal meningitis in the Kintampo Municipality and other adjoining districts. During his visit, Dr.Amankwa toured the Clinical Laboratory of KHRC with the aim of assessing the capacity of the laboratory in ...»
KHDSS hosts INDEPTH Methodology workshop on data linkage.
Linking demographic surveillance data with health facility data provides enormous opportunities for expanding the usefulness of HDSS data for health policy and research. The INDEPTH Network, realising the need for this critical area of research activity, organised a three- day workshop on data linkage from health facilities and the Health and Demographic Surveillance Systems (HDSSs). This was held at the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) in Ghana from the 6th to 8th February, 2012. Ten INDEPTH Network member centres participated in the ...»
KHRC wins a WHO Fellowship Award
The World Health Organization (WHO) Jacques Parisot foundation fellowship for 2009 was awarded to Ms. Livesy Naafoe Abokyi, a Public Health Research Fellow in KHRC at an eventful ceremony at the WHO country office in Accra on 12th December, 2011. The award consists of a bronze medal and an amount of five thousand US dollars ($5000). The amount received earlier was used to support TB research work in KHRC. The bronze medal was presented at the...»
Priority Research Areas
- Communicable diseases (CDs), particularly Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS
- Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health
- Mental Health
- Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension and cancer Health Systems
- Using the DSS to track progress towards MDGs using indicators such as mortality levels, patterns and trends
The Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC) has always been strategic for its own continual existence as well as being a lot more relevant in its research activities, not only to Ghana as a country, but to the international community as a whole. The drive to build on new initiatives and the urge to sustain a centre of excellence took the best part of our focus in the year 2010 as
