Kintampo Health Research Centre

Kintampo Health Research Centre (KHRC), doing business as Non-Commercial Health Research, is a non-profit research organization based in Kintampo, Ghana, and operates as part of Ghana's Ministry of Health. As one of three government-designated research centers in Ghana, KHRC provides disease surveillance, epidemiological research, and health research services to the U.S. federal government through both contract and grant awards. The organization leverages its established presence in Ghana and technical expertise in vector-borne disease monitoring and environmental health research to support U.S. military and public health objectives in West Africa.

KHRC has received two federal contract awards from the Department of the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for vector-borne disease surveillance services in the Kintampo area of Ghana's Bono East Region. The first contract, awarded on September 30, 2023, was a firm fixed price purchase order valued at $34,000.08 with a completion date of September 29, 2025, while the second contract, awarded on September 30, 2025, was a $34,000 firm fixed price purchase order with a completion date of September 29, 2027. Both contracts were non-set-aside procurements that supported the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) EURAFCENT project's mission to monitor tick and mosquito-borne infections in West Africa. These contracts reflect KHRC's demonstrated capability to conduct vector-borne infection surveillance and provide critical surveillance data that inform U.S. military health strategies in the region.

KHRC has been awarded a substantial prime federal grant from the Fogarty International Center, awarded on August 1, 2024, with completion scheduled for February 28, 2029. This project grant, titled "Strengthening Capacity for Policy-Relevant Life Course Epidemiological Research in Ghana," focuses on developing a sustainable pipeline of African physician scientists and postdoctoral investigators to address the non-communicable disease burden in Ghana and West Africa. The initiative leverages four well-characterized cohorts including the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS), PRISMA, Kintampo Health Project (KHP), and the Kintampo Demographic Health Surveillance System (KHDSS), providing mentored research opportunities across PhD training, master's degree programs, and short-term workshops. KHRC has also received multiple federal grant sub-awards from prime grantees including the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Columbia University, University of Maryland Baltimore, Brown University, and PATH. These sub-awards support diverse research activities including evaluations of household air pollution and its associations with microbiome, lung function, and cardiovascular health; malaria prevention and vaccine research; climate and health associations; and the development of country-driven malaria vaccine research agendas. The research conducted through these federal grants represents collaborative partnerships with prestigious U.S. institutions and addresses critical public health challenges through long-term epidemiological studies and capacity building in Ghana.