UHAS appoints Prof John Owusu Gyapong as Vice Chancellor

Prof Gyapong will succeed the first VC of the institution whose term of office comes to an end on July 31, 2016.

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A press statement signed by the Registrar of UHAS Dr Cynthia Sena Kpeglo made this known. The statement said Prof Gyapong’s was appointed on July 15, 2016, at a meeting of the Univeristy’s Council.

“The UHAS Governing Council looks forward to welcoming Professor John Owusu Gyapong and his wife, Dr. (Mrs) Margaret Gyapong and their children, to the University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho,” said the release.

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About Professor John Owusu Gyapong

Prof John Owusu Gyapong obtained an MB ChB degree from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in 1987.  He did his postgraduate studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London, England where he earned an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries in 1993, and later a PhD in Epidemiology, 1997.

He is a Fellow of the Ghana College of Physicians, the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Professor Gyapong has to his credit 108 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, authored one book, contributed chapters in 8 books, over 50 Technical Reports, and made over 300 presentations at Scientific Conferences.

Prof John Owusu Gyapong is a Professor of Epidemiology. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research Innovation and Development, University of Ghana, in August 2011. A position he still occupies in the University.

Before he joined the University of Ghana, Professor Gyapong worked in several capacities at the Ghana Health Service.  He was the Project Clinician for the Ghana Vitamin A Supplementation Trials and an Epidemiologist of the Navorongo Health Research Centre.  He rose through the Ghana Health Service career system to become the Director, Research and Development, Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service from 2000 to 2010, led the process of defining the Health Research agenda for the health sector and supervised three Research Centres in Navorongo, Kintampo and Dodowa.

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He is also the Chairman of the Ghana Food and Drugs Authority Clinical Trials Technical Committee and a member of the Governing Council of Trinity Theological Seminary.

Outside the University, Professor Gyapong has had a wide and varied international experience and exposure.  He has provided expert service as Technical Advisor to several national and international organisations and institutions some of which he chaired.  These include: The World Bank; World Health Organisation and the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP).These several roles over the last two decades culminated in Professor Gyapong’s appointment as a Commissioner to the Lancet-University of Oslo Commission on the Global Governance for Health, an independent academic research initiative managed in collaboration with the Harvard Global Health Institute.

Professor Gyapong is an excellent scholar who has over the years established an enviable international reputation as a researcher, practitioner and mentor in his area of specialisation.  He is dynamic, a visionary and an effective leader capable of consolidating the gains of the last four years in achieving the ultimate goal of transforming the University of Health and Allied Sciences into a pre-eminent research and practically oriented health educational institution dedicated to community service.

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