University for Development Studies

Ghanaian public university with its head office at Tamale in the Northern Region and campuses at Nyankpala and elsewhere in the north, established in 1992 to link higher education with the development of the northern regions. Teaches through schools of medicine, allied health sciences, pharmacy, nursing and midwifery, veterinary medicine, agriculture and biosciences, works with the Tamale teaching hospital for clinical teaching, and carries out research in tropical medicine, medicinal plants, food security and animal health with its own laboratories.