Ensign Global College holds 9th Congregation

The Ensign Global College, a public health institution in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region, has held its 9th congregation with the conferment of a Master of Public Health Degree on some of its students.

The graduation ceremony also coincided with the 10th anniversary of the college, and was on the theme: “Celebrating a decade of educating professional and entrepreneurial leaders for prosperity”.

Mission

The mission of Ensign Global College is to educate entrepreneurial leaders who exhibit the highest levels of competency and professionalism, to create and share knowledge that can be deployed to respond to the world’s greatest challenges and to enact mutually beneficial partnerships to promote the prosperity of communities and countries worldwide.  

It is affiliated to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), with partnership of the University of Utah, Elon University, University of Oxford and Brigham Young University, among others.

In all, 34 students made up of 14 males and 20 females graduated with Master of Public Health Degrees, with the Overall Best Graduating Student being Deborah Esaa Larbi-Sarpong.

Akua Asuamah-Tawiah and Grace Helarie Fraikue picked the best community service awards while Gladstone Elikem Doh and Gideon Prempeh Owusu received the Leadership awards.

Hammond Nii Sarkwah was the best research student on the topic: “Assessing knowledge on seasonal malaria chemoprevention; Sicapp usability and data quality amongst community health workers in the Upper West Region of Ghana”. 

Prestigious status 

The President of the college, Prof. Stephen Alder, in his welcome remarks, said the college had created a culture of doing the impossible and achieving the improbable.

He explained that this year, the college had become the first and only institution in Africa to achieve the prestigious status of being accredited by the pre-eminent Council on Education for Public Health.

The Guest Speaker, Elder Robert Christopher Gay, husband of the Founder of the college, Dr Lynette Gay, who used biblical quotations and real-life stories to illustrate his presentation, stressed that everybody had talent and knowledge that could be tapped to benefit society.

Agents of prosperity

 “We have educated you to be exceptional, to be transformative, to be revolutionary. Let your life and your actions reflect the world as it can be.

“Be optimistic not only for what you can achieve but for what those around you can accomplish, giving the best of yourself and expecting the best out of others,” Elder Gay charged the graduating students.  

He said his extensive travelling around the continent made him aware that malaria was prevalent in Africa and there was the need for the graduates to act on their ideas to transform the world in malaria prevention.

A representative of the Vice Chancellor of KNUST, Prof. Samuel Asare Nkansah, urged the graduands to be inspirers, creators and innovators, creating opportunities for future generations as they entered the world of work.

The best-graduating student, Deborah Esaa Larbi-Sarpong, on behalf of her colleagues, pledged that they were going to influence Ghanaian society with the knowledge they had acquired in public health from the college.

The Founder and the Chair of the College Board, Dr Gay, who chaired the function, consistently reminded the graduates and the general public that the college would only be successful when their collective efforts made positive differences in the lives of the people, their families and their communities.