Established in 1972 through a joint initiative by the Government of Ghana and the United Nations, the Regional Institute for Population Studies (RIPS) was fully integrated into the University of Ghana in 1999. Originally tasked with training demographers for Anglophone Africa, RIPS has since evolved into a premier center for population science education, serving the entire continent.

Sustaining the African Health Initiative Community of Practice

The “Sustaining the African Health Initiative Community of Practice,” aimed at strengthening health systems in sub-Saharan Africa through collaborative learning and implementation research. The initiative seeks to build a community of implementation science practitioners, share health systems strengthening lessons, and promote research uptake for policy-making and healthcare improvements based on findings from the African Health Initiative implementation research. The Project Secretariat is based at the University of Ghana Regional Institute for Population Studies.