Ensign Global, Tulane University sign MoU
Two universities, Ensign Global University (EGU) and Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in the United States of America, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to exchange programmes and students for their mutual benefit.
The MoU, which was signed at the Ensign Global University at Kpong in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality in the Eastern Region last Monday, brought together officials from both universities to a round-table conference for some important discussions.
Ensign Global University
Ensign Global University is an accredited, world-class private, not-for-profit, academic institution of higher learning located at Kpong in Ghana.
Founded and supported by Lynette and Robert Gay, the institution follows its vision to bring United States (US) standards of higher education to Ghana and beyond to increase the direct benefits of education and scholarship where it is most needed.
With health as a foundation, Ensign Global seeks to build capacity in communities and countries worldwide through knowledge, partnerships and community connections. Its programmes equip graduates to be leaders, innovators and highly skilled professionals.
The university charges its students and alumni to find new and innovative ways to promote prosperity in communities across the world.
MoU
Prior to the signing of the MoU, the Head of Programmes of Ensign Global University, Dr Stephen Manortey, who led the visitors round the campus, said he was happy with the relationship established between the two universities.
He mentioned the Master of Public Health (MPH) Curriculum to include introduction to public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, foundations of Health Promotion, research design and methodology, health policy management and leadership, communicable and non-communicable diseases control, public health programme planning and evaluation, family and reproductive health, environmental health, public health nutrition, health economics, global health, social and behavioural science in public health and occupational health and safety.
He said Tulane University had been in existence for a long time and, therefore, saw the opportunity to partner Ensign Global University in student exchange work and faculty exchange work, which would go a long way to promote quality academic work in the two institutions.
Assurance
The leader of the visiting team, Prof. Thomas LaVeist, who is also the Dean of Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the Tulane University, said Tulane University was first in the USA and second in the world and was also happy that the two universities had embraced the idea of the partnership and were going to work together in the interest of public health.
“My assurance is that we both have the commitment to improve public health in Ghana and the USA,” he said.
The President of Ensign Global University, Prof. Stephen A. Alder, in his closing remarks via Zoom, stressed the importance of the collaboration between the two universities to promote public health, both in Ghana and the US, and expressed the hope that the collaboration would work.
Also at the programme were the Registrar of Ensign Global University, Patrick Kumah, Dr Edward Sutherland, Dr Sandra Kushitor, both lecturers, and Prof. Samuel Kakraba of Tulane University, among others.
