Centre for Health Development and Research (CEHDAR) is a registered health non-profit organization based in Ghana and cooperating globally.

CEHDAR is dedicated to contributing to building sustainable health systems and communities locally and internationally to ensure quality and equitable health systems for health and social development. The key focus of CEHDAR’s work is to improve midwifery and nursing systems (policy, leadership, essential competencies and education, regulation, practice and association strengthening etc.); health professional capacity building and leadership, qualitative research, policy, advocacy and health system strengthening.

OUR WORK: CEHDARis an evolving cutting-edge organization that seeks to deliver services that inform evidence-based strategic decisions and actions for leadership, health and social development. CEHDAR works with its team of diverse experts and strong Advisory Board to create an environment of real-life and face-to-face/online learning experience that collectively leads to building of appropriate technical competencies informed by local content and cultural relevance.

CEHDAR seeks to foster relationships that do not stop after one interaction. CEHDAR is sculptured for your health professional and systems' ; improvement needs.
Our board members include experts in the fields of midwifery, nursing, public health, medicine, sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent health (SRMNAH), health communication and health promotion, health learning materials development, policy development, advocacy, social research, monitoring and evaluation, gender, community development, sickle cell disease and genetic counselling. The background of the board members creates an exceptional mix of capabilities to address current interrelated challenges in health care programming.

As challenges of the health care system evolve, CEHDAR stands committed to the spirit and principles of passion, assertiveness, mutual respect, innovation, accountability and excellence to work with stakeholders/partners to deliver on assigned mandate towards equitable, respectful and accessible health care to save human lives. Our work is grounded in evidence with a focus on developing the capacities of the health community such as midwives, nurses, policy makers, health strategists, programme managers as well as women and other populations towards improved health care and services. Continual engagement is core to decision-making and product finalization.