The School of Public Health of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science (KNUST) hosted the 1st Stakeholders Meeting as part of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Tobacco Control Capacity Programme at the Great Hall Conference Room under the theme, ‘Tackling the Tobacco Menace in Ghana’. The GCRF aims to build capacity for applied research to reduce tobacco-related harm in low and middle-income countries.

Since it was first held in 2014, the school of public health has consistently held annual election programme in leadership.

The very components of the programs are; leading change, creating learning organization for the change, analyzing situations for change and designing appropriate strategies to address change in organizational settings.

This year’s program brought together experience and expertise of highly involved medical commitment in administration and management.

Newly appointed Staff in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have benefitted from a workshop and orientation organized by the Human Resource Division (HRD) Section of KNUST at the Great Hall Conference Room. This was done to inform and equip the newly appointees regarding their various duties.

Participants were taken through topics such as: University Governance and the Committee System, Ethics at the work place, Effective teaching skills, Identifying and Managing students’ behavior, Scheme of Service, and Office Management and Practice.