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The
NHRC started out in 1988 as a field site in Northern Ghana for a study to
investigate the impact of repeated large doses of Vitamin A Supplementation on
child survival in the
Kassena-Nankana District of Upper East Region
(The Ghana VAST Project).
In
1992 the Ministry of Health adopted the facility that had been created and
designated it a research centre with the mandate to investigate health problems
of the Sahelian ecological belt of northern Ghana and advise policymakers. Since
then the mandate has broadened to include population and health problems of
national and international significance. The work of the Centre is focused
on the major causes of illness in the northern regions and related problems of high fertility and maternal morbidity.
Navrongo Health research Centre is
a member of the
INDEPTH Network.
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