Conference Grants Awarded in the 2015/2016 Academic Year
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GRANTS AWARDED TO ATTEND CONFERENCES - QUARTER ONE |
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Dr. Enid OWUSU |
Department of Medical Laboratory Sciences |
9th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health |
Basel, Switzerland |
6th - 10th September, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Maximizing microcopy as adiagnostic tool in peripheral health centres of Buruli Ulcer endemic areas in Ghana |
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Dr. Adobea Y. OWUSU |
Institute for Statistical, Social and Economic Research |
5th international conference on health, wellness and society |
Madrid, Spain |
3rd - 4th September, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Access to Healthcare in Ghana: Serious Inequities prevail despite laudable achievements chalked |
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Dr. Grace ABABIO |
Medical Biochemistry |
CaRT WORKING MEETING |
Ibadan, Nigeria |
14th - 18th September, 2015 |
US$1,233.18 |
Predictors of Quality of Life (QOL) in patients with Diabetes Mellitus in Ghana |
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Dr. William COFFIE |
Accounting |
5th Annual Conference in Accounting and Finance of African Accounting & Finance Association |
Mauritius |
2nd - 4th September, 2015 |
US$1,000 |
Debt Maturity, Product market interactions, Operating environment and Firm performance: An international evidence of listed firms |
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Dr. Ibrahim BEDI |
Accounting |
5th Annual Conference of the African Accounting and Finance Association |
Mauritius |
2nd -4th September, 2015 |
US$1,000 |
The Influence of The International Financial Reporting Standards on Audit Reporting Lag |
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Dr. Ralph Agyei TWUM |
Mathematics |
Advanced School and Workshop on Geometry of Discrete Actions |
Trieste, Italy |
24th August - 5th September, 2015 |
GHC1,386 |
N/A |
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Dr. GEORGE AMPONSAH ANNOR |
Nutrition and Food Science |
American Association of Cereal Chemist (AACC) Centennial Meeting |
Minnesota, USA |
18th - 21st October, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Does Starch-Protein-Lipid Interactions Account for the Low Glycaemic Property of Millets? |
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Mr. Eric Doe SUNU |
Music |
1st International Council for Traditional Music's (ICTM) African Music Symposium & African Cultural Calabash |
Durban, South Africa |
30th September- 4th October, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Paper presentation: Aesthetic Expressions in Osoode music performance of Larteh |
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Mr. Prince SENYO |
Operations and Management Information Systems |
Academy of International Business Sub-Saharan Africa Chapter Annual Conference |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
26th -28th August, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Gender Role in Project Teams: Evidence from Ghana |
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Dr. Wazi APOH |
Archaelogy and Heritage Studies |
21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Arcaeologists |
Scotland, UK |
2nd - 05th September, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Archaeological Heritage and Dams in Ghana: A Review of the current situation |
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Dr. Samuel A. ATARAH |
Physics |
15th Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science |
Helsinki, Finland |
3rd - 8th August, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
N/A |
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Miss Monica MENSAH |
Balme Library |
81st International Federation of Library Association and Institutions-World Library and Information Congress, 2015. (81st IFLA WLIC 2015) |
Cape Town, South Africa |
15th - 21st August, 2015 |
US$1,400 |
N/A |
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Dr. Irene KRETCHY |
Pharmacy Practice and Clinical Pharmacy |
17th International Conference on Psychology and Health |
London, UK |
25th -26th September, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Medication Side Effects: Implications on the Mental Health and Adherence Behaviour of Patients with Hypertension. |
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Dr. Ernest Tei MAYA |
Population, Family and Reproductive Health |
XXI FIGO World Conference of Gynecology and Obstetrics |
Vancouver, Canada |
4th - 9th October, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Task shifting: Uterine Tonus Assessment by Midwives versus Patient self-assessment in the active management of the third stage of labor (UTAMP) trial; a randomized controlled trial |
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Miss Jennifer AMPONSAH |
UG-Carnegie NGAA Project |
6th ANIE Annual Conference |
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
7th - 9th October, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
The proposed SDGs: A tool for improving women’s access to higher education in Ghana through internationalization |
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Dr. Bismark SARFO |
Epidemiology and Disease Control |
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 64th Annual Meeting |
Pennsylvania USA |
25th - 29th October, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Baseline characteristics of patients receiving care for HIV/AIDS at the anti-retroviral clinic of Pantang hospital: A longitudinal cohort study |
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Mr. FRANK Ekow A. HAYFORD |
Nutrition and Dietetics |
The emerging need of alternative food sources in industrial, emerging and developing countries |
Germany |
13th - 23rd October, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Application of Malted/Germinated products in early child nutrition: The Ghanaian Experience |
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Mr. Jacob K. ZUTAH |
College of Education |
CAPREx Research Management Fellowships |
University of Pretoria, South Africa |
24th - 28th August, 2015 |
US$556 |
N/A |
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Mrs. Abena ENGMANN |
School of Public Health |
CAPREx Research Management Fellowships |
University of Pretoria, South Africa |
24th - 28th August, 2015 |
US$556 |
N/A |
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Prof. Mark Mawutor TETTEY |
Department of Surgery |
29th EACTS Annual Meeting |
Amsterdam |
3rd-7th October, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Patterns of Esophageal injuries and surgical management in West Africa: Mid term results |
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GRANTS AWARDED TO ORGANISE CONFERENCES - QUARTER ONE |
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Prof. George OWUSU |
Geography and Resouce Development |
2015 Ghana Geographical Association (GGA)/Ghana Geography Teachers Association (GGTA) Annual Conference |
University of Ghana |
4th - 6th August, 2015 |
GHC5,000 |
Geography, Place and Development |
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Dr. Clement APPAH |
Linguistics |
School of Language Conference (SOLCON1) |
University of Ghana |
27th - 29th October, 2015 |
GHC5,000 |
Multiligualism in the African Context: Resource of Challenge |
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Prof. C. Charles MATE-KOLE |
Psychology |
5th Annual Psychology/Psychiatry Conference |
ISSER Conference Facility |
15th - 17th October, 2015 |
GHC5,000 |
Mental Health in Africa: Prospects and Challenges |
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Prof. Kwadwo Ansah KORAM |
Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research |
9th WARIMA Conference and Workshop |
Noguchi Conference and Seminar Rooms |
23rd - 26th November, 2015 |
GHC 10,000 |
Research and Innovation for Human Development: Role of National Institutions in addressing threats if emerging Economies |
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Dr. David DODOO-ARHIN |
Materials Science and Engineering |
The 8th International Conference of the African Materials Research Society |
Mensvic Grand Hotel, Accra, Ghana |
6th - 11th December, 2015 |
GHC5,000 |
Transsforming African Economies through Innovative Material Development |
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GRANTS AWARDED TO ATTEND CONFERENCES - QUARTER TWO |
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Dr. Cynthia ADDOQUAYE TAGOE |
ISSER |
7th African Population Conference |
Johannesburg, South Africa |
30th November - 4th December, 2015 |
GHC3,907.20 |
Local Governance Participation and Migration Status: A tale of two ‘cities’ in Accra, Ghana (Paper) & Medium-Term Development Planning Processes and Effective Community Engagement: Strategies and Implications for a Fast-Growing Municipality in Ghana (Poster) |
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Dr. Fritz BIVERIDGE |
Archaeology and Heritage Studies |
Congress of the Wet African Association of Archaeology |
University de Lome |
7th-11th December, 2015 |
GHC3,640.00 |
Paper to be presented: Trade feuds and armed confrontations: Archaeological indications at Forts Eliza Carthago and Ruychaver, Western Region, Ghana. |
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Dr. Abubakar MANU |
Population, Family and Reprodutive Health |
International Conference on Family Planning |
Indonesia |
25th - 28th January, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
A Qualitative Analysis of Levels of Influence on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Ghana 2. Understanding "Qualitative findings on stigma and adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Ghana |
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Dr. Nana Yaw Boampong SAPONG |
History |
58th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association |
San Diego, USA |
19th-22nd November,2015 |
US$1,500 |
Framing Social Movements and Democracy from Below: Students, Repertoires, and Sites of Contention During Ghana's Democratic Transition, 1978-1989 |
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Mrs. Stella AMOA |
Public Affaris Directorate |
CASE Africa Advancement Hub Retreat/Conference |
Cape Town, South Africa |
3rd -7th November,2015 |
US$1,000 |
N/A |
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Dr. Adwoa ASANTE POKU |
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46th Union World Conference on Lung Health |
Cape Town |
2nd-6th December,2015 |
US$1,503 |
N/A |
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Dr. Antoinette Afua Asiedua BEDIAKO-BOWAN |
Surgery |
9th European Colorectal Congress |
St Gallen, Switzerland |
1st-4th December, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
N/A |
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Dr. Elaine TWENEBOAH LAWSON |
IESS |
Sustainable Development Goals and the Role of Research : A Focus on Coastal Regions |
Harrenhausen Palace, Hanover, Germany |
8th-9th December, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goal on Education through Community-Based Environmental Education |
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Dr. Charles ANTWI-BOASIAKO |
Physiology |
16th International Meeting on Human Genome Variation and Complex Genome Analysis (HGV2015) |
San Francisco, USA |
11th-13th November, 2015 |
US$1,500 |
Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism (T786C and VNTR) is associated with HbSS sickle cell disease complications in Ghana. |
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Dr. Faustina FREMPONG-AINGUA |
RIPS |
The 7th African population Conference |
Pretoria, South Africa |
30th November-4th December, 2015 |
GHC5,562.45 |
Neighbourhood Effects and Women’s Health Outcomes: A Multilevel Perspective |
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Dr. Agnes Millicent KOTOH |
Population, Family and Reprodutive Health |
2016 International Conference on Family Planning |
Nusa Dua, Indonesia |
23rd - 28th January, 2016 |
US$985 |
Prevalence, predictors and barriers to post-partum modern contraceptive use in a peri-urban district in Northern Ghana |
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GRANTS AWARDED TO ORGANISE CONFERENCES - QUARTER TWO |
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Drs Linda Darkwa and Philip Attuquayefio |
LECIAD |
Round Table on the transfer of former datainees from US dtention faculty in Guantanamo Bay to Ghana |
LECIAD, University of Ghana, Legon |
27th January, 2016 |
GHC2,500 |
N/A |
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GRANTS AWARDED TO ATTEND CONFERENCES - QUARTER THREE |
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Dr. BOAMPONG Joanna |
Modern Languages |
African Literature Association Conference |
Atlanta, Geogia, USA |
6th-9th April, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Justice and Human Dignity Matter(s): Juan Tomás Avila Laurel takes to the Blogs |
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Mr. AVEH Michael Africanus |
Theartre Arts |
African Literature Association Annual Meeting and Conference 2016 |
Atlanta, Geogia, USA |
6th-9th April,2016 |
US$1,500 |
Ananse in the Land of Idiots": Teaching Social Justice and Human Dignity through African Drama and Film |
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Dr. POHL Jonathan Otto |
History |
Jewish Refugees and Evacues in Soviet Central Asia during the Second World War |
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
6th-9th April,2016 |
us$1,500 |
Wir Hatten nichts" The Fate of ethnic Germans Deported to Kazakhstan During World War II. |
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Dr. AKANLIG-PARE George |
Linguistics |
47th Annual Conference on African Linguistics |
University of California, Berkeley, USA |
23rd-26th March, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Labialization in Buli |
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Mr. OSEI-KOJO Alex |
Public Administration and Health |
20th International Research Society on Public Management Conference |
Hong Kong,China |
13th-15th April, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
How local government reforms have altered central-local relations in Ghana: reflections on the Fourth Republic |
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Mr. DANQUAH Michael |
Economics |
CSAE/OXFORD Conference 2016 |
Oxford, UK |
20th-22nd March, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
N/A |
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Mr. ABDUL-RAHAMAN Mubarak |
Pathology |
Cell Cultivation under Perfussion and Live Cell Imaging |
Munchen, Germany |
2nd-10th March, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Attended a Training |
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Dr. Richmond ARYEETEY |
Population,Family and Reproductive Health |
2016 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition and physical Activity |
Cape Town, South Africa |
8th-11th June, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Psychometric Evaluation of a Built Environment Questionnaire for Physical Activity in Africa: Reliability and Validity Evidence from Ghana |
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GRANTS AWARDED TO ORGANISE CONFERENCES - QUARTER THREE |
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Mrs ATTRAMS Afia Serwaa |
School of Social Science |
2016 School of Social Sciences International Conference |
ISSER |
14th-15th April, 2016 |
GHC7,500 |
The Social Sciences, Good governce and sustainable development goals |
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Dr. AGBEFLE Koffi Ganyo |
French |
MULTIDISCIPLINARY INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: Education, Linquistics, Centres and Language Didactis |
Great Hall, University of Ghana |
11th-13th February,2016 |
GHC5,000 |
Contexts of teaching and learning French: Realities, obstacles and prospects |
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GRANTS AWARDED TO ATTEND CONFERENCES - QUARTER FOUR |
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Miss Ellen S. ADOMAKO |
Occupational Therapy |
The College of Occupational Therapists 40th Annual Conference and Exhibition and Specialist Section-Trauma |
Harrogate International Centre, UK |
28th-30th June, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
Being and becoming Occupational Therapist: perception of students from Ghana |
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Mr. OWUSU NDAA Peter |
Occupational Therapy |
The College of Occupational Therapists 40th Annual Conference and Exhibition and Specialist Section-Trauma |
Harrogate International Centre, UK |
28th-30th June, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
Being and becoming Occupational Therapist: perception of students from Ghana |
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Mr. Siaw APPIAH-ADU |
Archaeology and Heritage Studies |
23rd Congress of the Society of Africanist Archaeologist |
Toulouse, France |
26th June - 2nd July, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
Mathematics in Archaeology: A new approach to calculating Areas and Volumes of Mounds on Archaeological Landscape |
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Mr. Daniel KUMAH |
Archaeology and Heritage Studies |
23rd Congress of the Society of Africanist Archaeologist |
Toulouse, France |
26th June - 2nd July, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
Rethinking Gold Mining Frontiers’: a preliminary research of an ethno-archaeological investigation of mining at Prestea, Ghana |
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Dr. Lilian KYEI |
Mathematics |
17th International Symposium On Dynamic Games and Applications |
Urbino, Italy |
12th-15th July, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
N/A |
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Dr. Prince KODUA |
Marketing |
2016 Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress |
Paris, France |
19th-23rd July, 2016 |
US$1,000 |
The Role of Corporate Social Responsibility in Influencing Brand Loyalty: Evidence from The Ghanaian Telecommunication Industry |
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Dr. Saloame Tatu NYAKU |
Crop Science |
The Society of Nematologists and Organization of Nematologists of Tropical American Joint Conference |
Montreal, Canada |
17th-21st July, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Local and systemic responses of susceptible and resistant tomato (solanum lycopersicum) genotypes from Ghana to root-knot nematode (meloidogyne incognita). |
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Dr. E kua Essumanma HOUPHOUET |
Public Health Unit- UG Hospital |
Communication, Medicine and Ethics |
Aalborg University, Denmark |
4th-6th July 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Consulting Room Interactions in Psychiatric Care in Akan Speaking Communities |
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Dr. Isaac OWUSU-MENSAH |
Political Science |
International political Science Association (IPSA) World Congress |
Poznan, Poland |
23rd-28th July,2016 |
US$1,500 |
The Poor Paying for the rich: The Politics of Inequality in Water Pricing in Ghana |
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Dr. Wiafe Akenteng C. BRENYA |
Psychology |
31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP) 2016 |
Yokohama, Japan |
24th-29th July, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
N/A |
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Dr. Mahama BRAIMAH |
Department of Marketing |
2016 AMS Annual Conference |
Florida, USA |
18th-21st May,2016 |
US$1,000 |
Understanding service quality dimensions in small hotels |
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Dr. Victoria Ellen SMITH |
Department of History |
Broadcast Networks and the Postcolonial Archive |
University of Exeter, Devon, UK |
3rd June, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Ghanaian literary of the 1950s and broadcast archives in Ghana. |
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Dr. Awo Mana ASIEDU |
Theartre Arts |
The Anuual Conference of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR) |
Stockholm, Sweden |
10th-18th June, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Tracking the Creative process of a Roverman Production |
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Mrs Bertha OPPONG-YEBOAH |
Physiotherapy |
5th Biennial Emirates Physiotherapy conference plus Post Conference course |
Dubai, UAE |
19th - 21st May, 2016 |
US$1,500 |
Ghanaian Physiotherapists Attitudes and Beliefs on Low Back Pain and How They Influence its Management" |
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Prof. Mark TETTEY |
College of Health Sciences |
Second Biennial Scientific Conference of the College of Health Sciences |
Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, Accra |
28th-30th September, 2016 |
GHC 10,000 |
New Threats and Old Challenges in Communicable Diseases Epidemics. |
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Prof. Samuel AGYEI-MENSAH |
College of Humanities |
College of Humanities Intenational Research Conference |
ISSER Conference Center |
15th-17th June, 2016 |
GHC 10,000 |
Promoting Humanities Research for Development in Africa |
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Dr. Patrick AMOATENG |
Pharmacology and Toxicology |
Ghana Neuroscience Symposium 2016 |
African Wetlands, Main Auditorium |
5th-10th May, 2016 |
GHC 5000 |
Neuroscience in Ghana: Past, Present and Future |
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George K. NKRUMAH-BANDOH |
Physics |
4th African School on Electronic Structure Methods and Applications (ASESMA 2016) |
UGCS |
12th-25th June, 2016 |
GHC 5000 |
Electronic structure calculations for Novel materials |
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Dr. Rose Mary AMENGA-ETEGO |
Study of Religions |
7th Biennial African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR) Conference |
ISSER Conference Center |
26th-29th July, 2016 |
GHC 5,000 |
Religion, Sexuality, and Identity in Africa and the African Diaspora |
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Dr. Ajediran I. BELLO |
Physiotherapy |
Integrating Classroom Knowledge into the Field Experience among Physiotherapy Students: Expectations from the Clinical Preceptors Practice Placements |
Oceanic Resort, Korle Gono |
26th-27th May, 2016 |
GHC 5,000 |
Bridging the gap between theory and practice: a wake up call to African Physiotherapists |
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Dr. Samuel OPOKU |
Radiography |
Practicing Radiographers and Student Radiographers. Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Readying for Future Medical Imaging Practice |
Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital |
20th-21st May, 2016 |
GHC 5,000 |
Bridging the Knowledge Gap: Readying for Future Medical Imaging Practice |
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