A BRIEF HISTORY OF UHAS
BACKGROUND
University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) was established by an Act of Parliament (ACT 828 of December 2011) as a public university in Ghana. The main campus, including the central administration, is in Sokode-Lokoe in the Ho Municipality. A second campus is located in Hohoe.
UHAS is the first public university to be established in the Volta Region of Ghana and is, so far, the only state university wholly dedicated to the training of healthcare professionals in Ghana. Professor Fred Newton Binka, who was at the time Dean of the School of Public Health, University of Ghana, was appointed as the foundational Vice-Chancellor of UHAS and served in that capacity until July 2016, when he was succeeded by Professor John Owusu Gyapong. The current Vice Chancellor is Professor Lydia Aziato, who assumed office in August 2022.
The University currently runs 22 undergraduate and 14 postgraduate programmes in seven schools, namely: School of Allied Health Sciences; School of Basic and Biomedical Sciences; School of Medicine; School of Nursing and Midwifery; School of Pharmacy; Fred N. Binka School of Public Health; and School of Sports and Exercise Medicine. The new School of Dentistry is being incubated in the School of Medicine. The University also runs two institutes: Institute of Health Research and Institute of Traditional and Alternative Medicine.
AIMS
- To provide higher education in the Health Sciences through teaching and research for persons suitably qualified and capable of benefitting from such education;
- To disseminate knowledge and the results of research and their applications to the needs and aspirations of the people of Ghana;
- To provide clinical and other services to contribute positively to improving the health status and overall quality of life, and to foster partnerships with outside persons and bodies.
VALUES & ETHOS
Our values and ethos are enshrined in four beliefs that underpin our behaviour and how we conduct ourselves and our business as pre-eminent health research and educational institution. These are: Excellence, Innovation, Integrity, Service and Care.
VISION
UHAS seeks to be a pre-eminent health research educational institution dedicated to community service. We shall realise this vision by taking innovative approaches to research, teaching and engagement with society, informed by a culture of scholarship, academic and service excellence.
