Partners
Ghana: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH)
Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Ghana: Kintampo Rural Health Training School
Ghana: Regional Hospital - Sunyani
Ghana: Local District Assemblies
Ghana: Ministry of Health
India: Shakti Krupa Charity Hospital
China: Hainan Medical College (HMC)
Utah: Refugee Services
Kenya: Indiana University - Moi Partnership
Armenia: American University of Armenia (AUA)
Ghana: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH)
The Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana, is the second-largest hospital in the country and the only tertiary health institution in the Ashanti Region. It is the main referral hospital for the Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. The hospital was built in 1954 as the Kumasi Central Hospital. It was later named Komfo Anokye Hospital. It was converted into a teaching hospital in 1975 affiliated to the medical school of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. The hospital is also accredited for postgraduate training by the West African College of Surgeons in surgery, obstetrics and ophthalmology and radiology. The hospital currently has about 1000 beds, up from the initial 500 when first built. MORE...
Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)
Proudly one of Ghana's leading University and seeking to maintain academic excellence- one of our hallmarks, KNUST offers and continually upgrades her Undergraduate, Postgraduate and distance learning courses. With carefully categorized academic departments into sic colleges, a state of the art library complex housing a modern Information and Communication Technology Centre, several educational resource centres, modern laboratories, research facilities and a host of other facilities. MORE...
Ghana: Kintampo Rural Health Training School
The Kintampo Rural Health Training School became fully established in 1969 by the Ministry of Health, Ghana. It has the mandate to turn out quality multi-purpose health personnel for the provision of quality health care throughout the country. The Motto is “Educating For Service” with a guiding principle of producing human resource capable of providing health services, that is:
- Simple in operation
- Extensive in scope
- Economic in cost and yet
- Efficient in quality.
Since its inception, the school has lived with this principle and turned out hundreds of Medical Assistants, Technical Officers and Field Technicians who have strived to and continue to make immense contributions to the reduction of disability and suffering, morbidity and mortality particularly among marginalized population groups in Ghana. More...
Ghana: Regional Hospital - Sunyani
Established on 11th May 1927 by the then Colonial Masters as a Hospital for the people of Western Ashanti, the Regional Hospital has seen the population of Sunyani and Brong Ahafo increase more than 10 fold since 1927. The Hospital had undergone a long transformation and expansion from the time the Brong Ahafo Region was calved out of the Ashanti Region 45 years ago. On the 4th of August 2003 the hospital moved its services from the 79 years old facility into an ultramodern hospital with the state of art medical equipment and diagnostic facilities. More...
Ghana: Local District Assemblies
Ghana’s ten administrative regions are subdivided into 138 distinctive metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies. These divisions have their administrative capitals and political heads who are the Chief Executives. MORE...
Ghana: Ministry of Health
As a critical Sector of the economy, the Ministry of Health seeks to improve the health status of all people living in Ghana thereby contributing to Government's vision of transforming Ghana into a middle-income country by 2015. The Ministry of Health, working in partnership with its agencies and stakeholders aims at improving the human capital thus "creating wealth through health" through the development and implementation of proactive policies that will ensure improved health and vitality among Ghanaians. These policies and strategies are human centered and aim at contributing to the socio economic development of the country by ensuring access to quality health, population and nutrition services for all people living in Ghana and by promoting the development of the local health industry. MORE...
India: Shakti Krupa Charity Hospital
"When I saw what the Utah Global Health Initiative has done in Ghana, I knew that they were the right group to come to Vadodara and help us there. The need is so great in rural India - we had to find an organization with a track record of success." - Dinesh Patel, Ph.D. Patron, Shakti Krupa Charity Hospital and School, village of Mota Fofalla, near Vadodara, India.
With a profound love and affection towards the poor and weaker sections of the society as well as the people residing in an around Sinor Taluka, the founding father of the Trust thought it proper to set up a hospital with modern facilities for providing proper treatment to patients for nominal charges. The aim of establishing the hospital was to help out the rural people and avoid them from moving on to urban areas for medical treatment and also to assist the poor to provide medical facilities, free of cost. With excellent management and effective administration, the health centre has been recognized as Gujarat 's first 'Grant-in-Aid' Community Health Centre.
The hospital building is surrounded by greenery on all sides providing natural elegance and thus the patients can sit it the garden and enjoy fresh air and spend some time to enjoy the natural beauty.
The hospital has 50 beds and its services are supported by Laboratory, four operation theatres, X-ray, Diagnostic Sonography, Dispensary, Emergency rooms, etc. The eye department is well equipped with modern computerized instruments. The main hospital building covers a built-up area of 20000 Sq.ft. having ground floor utilized for register patients and the first floor for out patient department. MORE...
China: Hainan Medical College (HMC)
Presently on staff there are 1579 doctors, faculty or research staff members, among whom are 100 professors and 263 associate professors, 71 of whom have doctoral degrees; 309 have Master’s Degrees, 32 are advisers for Master Degrees in Medicine and 3 are adviser for doctoral degrees in medicine. The college is also implementing a series of preferential polices to attract outstanding experts from both home and abroad to joint its mission. HMC has been committing to its mission----serve local social and economic development. Most of the programs it offers to its students are targeting at the needs of health human resource in Hainan province, including clinical medicine, preventive medicine, TCM, nursery science and pharmacy etc. HMC has distinguished itself in the development of competent and leading medical workers and in the promotion of medical teaching reform based on modern technology. MORE...
Utah: Refugee Services
The Utah Refugee Services Office (RSO provides information to refugees and the services available to them. Their services are meant to be useful to refugees, service providers, public and private partners, and the community at large. Governor Jon M. Huntsman, Jr. established the RSO in 2008. The RSO resides within the Department of Workforce Services. This office provides leadership in service coordination, policy review, accountability, advocacy and resource development and management for essential services to refugees in the State of Utah. The mission of the Utah Refugee Services Office is to maximize the quality and pace of refugee integration, coordinate all services for refugees and manage Federal funding. The GHI has partnered with the RSO by providing medical services through a number of clinics in Salt Lake. MORE...
Kenya: Indiana University - Moi Partnership
In 1989, Indiana University School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya agreed to join together to develop leaders in health care for both the U.S. and Africa. That mission inspired this team to provide invaluable training to future generations of health care providers on both continents. At the turn of the century, in the face of the deadliest pandemic in human history, IU and Moi responded by creating one of Africa's largest, most comprehensive and effective HIV/AIDS control systems. The Indiana-Kenya Partnership responded to the resulting program called AMPATH: the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare. AMPATH treats over 100,000 HIV-positive patients at 23 sites in both urban and rural Kenya. MORE...
Armenia: American University of Armenia
By providing teaching, research and public service, AUA seeks to serve Armenia and the region and to provide a positive model in the transition to a market economy and democratic style of government. The University aims to prepare graduates who will play a constructive role in the social and economic development of Armenia and the region. The use of English as the language of instruction is intended to facilitate communication between graduates of AUA and their colleagues throughout the world and to attract an international faculty cadre and student body. AUA faculty members are invited to promote learning and knowledge by teaching and conducting research. The exchange between faculty members and students is based on intellectual openness. Students are encouraged to formulate, critically and creatively, their individual paths of understanding and to pursue diversity in knowledge. MORE...
