The German-West African Center for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention (G-WAC) began receiving funding in May 2021 as part of the DAAD program Global Centers for Climate and Environment with the financial support of Germany’s Federal Foreign Office. 

The German-West African Centre for Global Health and Pandemic Prevention, established at the College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, will address the existential threat that global pandemics pose to people’s health and welfare. At the center, transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects use One Health approaches to examine both the main drivers of pandemics (e.g., health impact of wild habitat encroachment, extensive agriculture and climate change, spillover of pathogens from wild animals to humans) and the key pillars of resilient health systems as outlined by the World Health Organization’s framework (e.g., effective governance, sustainable financing mechanisms, appropriate human resource capacity, availability of essential medicines and technology, reliable health information, and responsive health service delivery). 

Partner country: Ghana

Institutions: Berlin School of Public Health (Technische Universität Berlin and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin) and University of Bonn

Partner: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and others

https://g-wac.org/

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