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Navrongo Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NHDSS)

NHDSSActiveGhanaEstablished 1993HDSS
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318,000
Cohort size
1993
Year started
Rural
Setting
All ages
Age group
All
Sex
HDSS
Cohort type

About this cohort

Established in 1993 in the Kassena-Nankana districts, Upper East Region of Ghana. Open cohort grown from 25,000 to 156,735 individuals by 2012 and now over 318,000, followed up every four months. Operated jointly by NHRC and the Ghana Health Service; a leading site for vaccine, family planning and child-survival research in West Africa.

Cohort-provided summary · derived from APCC directory fields

Research themes

Primary research themes for this cohort.

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Demographic surveillance
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Maternal & Child Health
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Vaccines

Study population

Who the cohort follows.

This cohort covers 318,000 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.

1993
Cohort established
Start of data collection as recorded in the APCC directory.
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Further milestones
To be confirmed Additional events pending custodian input.

Key characteristics

Core descriptive metadata.

Study design / type
HDSS
Cohort size
318,000Participants / residents
Population focus
All ages · All
Geographic coverage
GhanaRural
Year started
1993Ongoing
Coordinates
10.8956, -1.0926Lat, Long

Institutions & governance

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

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