As part of events to celebrate a decade of contributing to Ghana’s public health sector, ENSIGN Global College located in Kpong in the Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region has graduated 28 new professionals with Master’s degrees in Public Health, equipping them with skills to confront emerging public health challenges head-on. Ensign Global College, now Africa’s first institution accredited by the U.S. Council on Education for Public Health, has pledged to intensify its public health training programs to improve the country’s public health sector at all levels.

Speaking to the media at a colourful event, the President of ENSIGN Global College, Prof Stephen Alder indicated that graduates from Ensign Global College will continue to positively impact Ghanaian society.

“We are so thrilled to be celebrating 10 years. We’ve had a terrific 10 years of developing our campus, developing our academic programs, but even more so, our institution is about making an impact in the community and in the world. For our 10-year celebration, we’ve had multiple events, including yesterday, where we had a public lecture to bring in all sorts of our stakeholders to talk about the work we’re doing ranging from health to go, which is taking essential health services to communities throughout Ghana, especially those that are hardest to reach, our tool that will help to identify where there are surgical and healthcare resources, and even beyond that, our community work and cancer awareness, our work in helping to bring better attention to the important topics like over flooding and the illegal mining and those sorts of things”.

“So we feel like 10 years is just the start, and we have many great things to come. We’ve been able to launch our Center for Leadership, Innovation, and Prosperity. We’re bringing in partners from the United States for business creation. We have our medical innovation partners here to help us launch, and so many other things that we’re doing to help build prosperity.

“Our focus, of course, is prosperity in Ghana, in West Africa, and throughout the world. Our graduates are those agents that are going to go out and help make this happen, and our programs, including our research and service, help us and them to be able to be the best we can be in making a better world”.

The Founder and board chair – Dr. Lynette Gay of the institution expressed her satisfaction with the establishment and successes chalked over the past 10 years of its existence.

“Very, very pleased, simply because we have found such amazing professionals in Ghana that have been able to do what you see behind you to the highest expectations, the architects, the construction, the faculty we have been able to employ here, the staff, all the support systems have been the highest that I’ve been able, have the privilege to work with.

“Health does begin in the home, effective health and protection and preparation to keep the family as healthy as they can. You know, we hate to see people go to the hospitals as the last resort if they can address their health needs within their knowledge in their home, and so we have our students who we have trained at the highest profession, they come in very well prepared. “They’re all professionals ready to take it on to the second level and then carry on with their lives from there. We encourage them to have community involvement, go beyond their imagination, and don’t stop them by themselves. If they think they can do it, go out and try. You can’t know what you’re going to succeed if you don’t try, and so we encourage them in the public health sector and others as well”.

“I’ve worked in Africa for 24 years, starting in the East Africa. I came to Ghana 20 years ago and after living here for several years, I was able to identify where I felt a change needed to be affected and that was at the community home family level of health”.

Governing board member Togbe Afede the fourteenth commended ENSIGN Global College for its transformative contributions to public health, emphasizing the institution’s growing impact in shaping healthier communities.