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Kintampo Health and Demographic Surveillance System (KHDSS)

KHDSSActiveGhanaEstablished 2003HDSS
533,566
Cohort size
2003
Year started
Rural
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
HDSS
Cohort type

About this cohort

Established in 2003 in the Kintampo North Municipality and Kintampo South district of the Bono East Region (formerly Brong-Ahafo), Ghana, covering ~7,162 km² and now over 540,000 individuals. Operates under Kintampo Health Research Centre with biannual surveillance of pregnancies, births, deaths and migrations. A leading platform for malaria vaccine trials and life-course NCD research in West Africa.

Cohort-provided summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

Demographic surveillance
Maternal & Child Health
Malaria
NCDs

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 533,566 participants in a rural setting in Ghana, spanning All ages (all). Detailed inclusion criteria and follow-up schedule — To be confirmed.

Timeline

Milestones in the cohort record.

2003
Cohort established
Start of data collection as recorded in the APCC directory.
Further milestones
To be confirmed Additional events pending custodian input.

Key characteristics

Core descriptive metadata.

Study design / type
HDSS
Cohort size
533,566Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
GhanaRural
Year started
2003Ongoing
Coordinates
8.05, -1.7167Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

Lead institution(s); partners and governance to be confirmed.

Kintampo Health Research Centre (Ghana Health Service)

Partner institutions & governance arrangements — To be confirmed

Nested studies & sub-cohorts

Studies built on this cohort platform.

Nested studies / sub-cohorts — To be confirmed.

FAIR readiness

Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable assessment.

F · TBCA · TBCI · TBCR · TBC
FAIR assessment pending — to be completed with the cohort custodian against the APCC metadata standard.

Investigators

Principal investigators and ORCID identifiers.

Information pending validation.

Publications & evidence

Outputs, policy briefs and research evidence.

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Publications, policy briefs and research outputs to be linked from Africahied. To be confirmed.

Data access & governance

How the data can be accessed and governed.

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Access procedure
Managed access via the cohort custodian
Request
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Ethics & governance
To be confirmed

Collaboration opportunities

Partnerships and capacity strengthening.

Collaboration opportunities, capacity-strengthening and partnership details. To be confirmed.

Contact

How to reach the cohort team or request access.

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Lead institution
Kintampo Health Research Centre (Ghana Health Service)
Contact
To be confirmed
Metadata source: APCC cohort directoryLast reviewed: 19 June 2026Some fields are placeholders pending custodian confirmation — verify independently.