Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC)

🎄✨ Season’s Greetings from Navrongo Health Research Centre! ✨🎄 As we celebrate this joyous season, we extend our warmest wishes to our incredible staff, valued collaborators, and dedicated partners. Your unwavering commitment to advancing health research and improving lives inspires us every day. Together, we’ve made a lasting impact, and we look forward to achieving even greater milestones in the coming year. May this Christmas bring you peace, happiness, and the warmth of family and friends. Here’s to a prosperous and healthy 2025 for us all! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 🎉

Today marked a meaningful beginning to our collaborative discussions involving partners from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and researchers from the Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC), Dodowa Health Research Centre, and the C. K. Tedam Uni. of Tech. & Applied Sciences. In today's strategic planning meeting, the focal areas were diverse yet unified in purpose, centering around health challenges in: #EnvironmentalHealth, #NCDs, #ChildYouthHealth, #InfectiousDiseases and #HealthSystem #Strengthening. These engagements are geared towards unifying #healthresearch efforts to contribute to the delivery of quality and accessible #healthcare. Together, we are exploring innovations that will improve lives, build #capacity and create healthier communities. Patrick Ansah, Raymond Akawire Aborigo, Engelbert Nonterah, MD, PhD, David J. Heller, David Plater, Rachel Vreeman, MD, MS Martine Faustin, Ashante R. Patterson, MCM, Carol Horowitz

An exciting start of our first strategic planning meeting in Ghana with Navrongo Health Research Centre, Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC), Dodowa Health Research Centre, & C. K. Tedam Uni. of Tech. & Applied Sciences! Together, our research and training collaborations in environmental health, non-communicable diseases, child & youth health, infectious disease, and health system strengthening are laser focused on making quality healthcare accessible for all.

Our Director, Allison Squires , was privileged to be part of this team and working on building and scaling health services research capacity with these outstanding interdisciplinary researchers from Navrongo Health Research Centre in Navrongo, Ghana.

𝐁𝐔𝐈𝐋𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐒𝐔𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐇 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 Today, the Navrongo Health Research Centre had the pleasure of welcoming esteemed collaborators from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This visit marked the start of an exciting series of discussions focused on advancing health research on concepts such as Environmental Health, Adult NCDs, Child, Adolescent and Maternal Health, Infectious Diseases, Health Systems Design and Scaling, Research Structure & Capacity Building and Education. Our guests embarked on a comprehensive familiarization tour of Navrongo Health Research Centre gaining insights into the diverse departments and the critical work they undertake. We’re thrilled to strengthen our ties with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and look forward to the shared discoveries and innovations that lie ahead. Together, we are committed to advancing public health and improving lives.

The Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC) made a significant representation at the 4th Nobel Symposium on Physiology and Medicine, held recently in South Africa. The symposium hosted by STIAS: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study brought together prominent scientists across the globe to advance discussions on Cardiovascular Diseases (CVDs), an escalating health concern globally, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. As part of the event, Engelbert Nonterah, MD, PhD from the Navrongo Health Research Centre participated in a roundtable discussion where he articulated the challenges CVDs pose in low and middle-income countries. Read more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eMACF56C

𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐘 𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐃𝐑. 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐊 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐀𝐇 🎂 🥂 Navrongo Health Research Centre celebrates you Patrick Ansah on this special day. Your leadership, vision, and unwavering dedication have been instrumental in guiding our mission and shaping the conduct of health research at the Navrongo Health Research Centre. Today, we honor not just your birthday, but also the countless contributions you make to our team and the community. Warmest wishes from the Navrongo Health Research Centre Team

Congratulations to PARC Research Associates Irma Elo, School of Arts and Sciences & Iliana Kohler, School of Arts and Sciences for being awarded a 2024 Penn Global Research and Engagement Grant for the project: "Determinants of Cognitive Aging among Older Individuals in Ghana" The overall aim of this project is the development of a nationally representative study on aging in Ghana. This goal requires expanding our network of Ghanian collaborators and actively engage them in research on aging. The PIs will build on existing institutional contacts in Ghana that include: 1). Current collaboration with the Navrongo Health Research Centre (NCHR) on a pilot data collection on cognitive aging in Ghana (funded by a NIA supplement and which provides the matching funds for this Global Engagement fund grant application); 2) Active collaboration with the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana. Elo has had a long-term collaboration with Dr. Ayaga Bawah who is the current director of RIPS.

Grateful for the enriched internship experience at the Navrongo Health Research Centre. Glad for such a wonderful opportunity. #CommunityService #InternshipExperience #NHRC #Research #PalmUniversityCollege #CareerServices

"While the focus on respectful care has traditionally been on the woman alone, there is growing awareness that mistreatment of newborns can have immediate and lasting consequences. There is a growing movement to expand the focus to the woman and her baby together—the dyad—and to include respectful newborn care." This new blog post focuses on the importance of the newborn experience of care and offers an in-depth look at work from Ghana: https://lnkd.in/gR4NEADk Taggable authors include: Shanon McNab, Cupid Adumbireh, Ioana (Ana) Petricel, Sue Moffson, Dr. Neena Khadka, Colby Reed, MPH, Lara Vaz, and Reshma Naik, DrPH, MPH, among others. cc Navrongo Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Jhpiego, USAID MOMENTUM, PRB #RespectfulMaternityCare #RespectfulNewbornCare #NewbornHealth #SmallVulnerableNewborns #MotherBabyDyad Photo credit: Kate Holt/Jhpiego