Head of Department’s Welcome Message

On behalf of our Faculty and Staff, I am pleased to welcome you to the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health (PFRH) and to our website. As one of the key departments of the school, our services to students cut across the various areas in maternal and child health, reproductive health, nutrition, population, adolescent and family.  Our programmes have an established, long history of providing public health professionals of "choice" to the districts, regions, and national health care workforce. 

The department hosts the World Health Organisation/Human Reproduction Alliance hub for Anglophone Africa as well as the HIV Comorbidity Research collaboration between the University of Ghana School of Public Health and Yale University School of Medicine. The department also serves as the African partner for the delivery of online MSc in Reproductive Health Policies and programmes with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

We are extremely proud of our highly experienced and committed 12 faculty members, who breathe life and excitement into our courses. Our faculty pursue scholarly research in a myriad of areas in Maternal and Child Health, Nutrition, HIV and Sexual and Reproductive Health.

Currently, there are 74 students enrolled in our three categories: PhD, MPH (Regular/Weekend) of graduate programmes. Our students are also encouraged to select courses in the other departments within the school to enhance diversity in their studies. You will find our faculty to be highly focused on students’ success. They are dedicated to bringing real life experiences into the classroom setting, to enhance the learning outcomes of the students. 

We welcome you to this Department and with the firm belief that your stay with us will be both academically and professionally rewarding.