President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will deliver the keynote address to open the 73rd Annual New Year School and Conference in Accra, today, Tuesday, January 25, 2022, at the University of Ghana, Legon.
The 73rd edition is on the theme: “COVID-19 and socioeconomic dynamics in Ghana” and is Organized by the School of Continuing and Distance Education of the College of Education of the university.
Representatives from the Trades Union Congress (TUC), metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives, the media, youth leaders, ministries, departments and agencies, traditional leaders, civil society organizations (CSOs), and faith-based organizations will be among the participants.
Topics to be discussed include emerging technologies and innovations in healthcare delivery during pandemics, COVID-19 and global peace and security, and the gains of COVID-19 in education.
Since its inception in 1948, the Annual New Year School and Conference has been the flagship program of the University and attracts people from all walks of life to deliberate on topical issues of national and international interests.
In attendance will be the Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Mrs. Mary Chinery-Hesse; the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo; the World Bank Country Director, Mr. Pierre Frank Laporte, and the Medical Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CHILD Accra Medical Group, Dr. Juliette M. Tuakli, who is also the Ghana Chair of the Board of Trustees of United Way Worldwide, an international non-governmental organization.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kofi Atakora
