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University of Gondar
The University of Gondar, until 2003 known as the Gondar
College of Medical Sciences, is the oldest medical school in University of Gondar
Ethiopia. Established as the Public Health College in 1954, it
is located in Gondar, the former capital of Ethiopia. In 2010,
the university offered 42 undergraduate and 17 postgraduate
programs. As of 2016, the University offers 56 undergraduate
and 64 postgraduate. These are organized under the College of
Medicine and Health Sciences, College of Business and
Economics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences,
College of Social Sciences and Humanities, and Faculty of
Veterinary Medicine and Faculty of Agriculture, and three Motto Committed to serve
schools (School of Law, School of Technology and School of our country!
Education).[1] Established 1954
President Dr. Asrat Atsedeweyn
History Academic staff 2,546
Administrative 5,473
The Public Health College was established following an staff
agreement signed by the acting Ethiopian minister of public
health, Marsae Hazan Wolde Qiros, and the government of the Undergraduates 41,730
United States in April, 1954. The Ethiopian government signed Postgraduates 5,497
a similar agreement with the World Health Organization
Location Gondar, Ethiopia
September of that year. These agreements specified that the
College would consist of four parts: a training school, a Colours Blue Yellow White
hospital, and awraja (regional district) and municipal health
departments.[2] As a result, the College played a significant role Website http://www.uog.edu.et/
in improving public health in Gondar over the next few years.[3]

The training school's mission was to supply middle-level health

professionals who would operate a network of health centers
distributed across the country. Each center would be staffed by a
health officer, a community nurse, a sanitarian and a laboratory
technician, and was expected to care for about 50,000 people. The
first health centers were built around Gondar, but as the Public
Health College came to be responsible for the public health of
Begemder Province as well, they were forced to build new centers
ever further away.[4] The main gate of the University of
Gondar.
One of the results of signing a new treaty between the United States
and Ethiopia in June 1960 was the upgrade of the Public Health
College to full college status.[5] However, when Haile Selassie
University (since renamed Addis Ababa University) became a chartered institution, it received the
responsibility for all higher education in the country, and the Public Health College was made a part of
the University. Its innovative program is based on field work, and its work to improve public health in
Gondar and Begemder province were replaced by an emphasis on academic coursework which led to a
Bachelor of Science in Public Health.[6]

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While remaining part of Addis Ababa University, Gondar College was reorganized with the help of Karl
Marx University in East Germany (now known as Leipzig University) in 1978; in 1992, the College
regained its autonomy. The subsequent creation of a Faculty of Management Science and Economics, a
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and a Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences enabled the college
to grow into University College in 2003; the following year the institution was renamed the University of
Gondar.[7]

See also
Health in Ethiopia

Notes
1. Research and Community Services Core Process (http://www.uog.edu.et/index.php?option=com_co
ntent&view=article&id=77&Itemid=70), University of Gondar website (accessed 3 March 2011)
2. Solomon Getahun, History of the City of Gondar (Trenton, Red Sea Press, 2005), p. 131
3. Solomon, History, pp. 132-6
4. Asrat Woldeyes, "The Postliberation Period (1941-1971)", in Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to
the Medical History of Ethiopia (Trenton: Red Sea Press, 1990), pp. 246
5. Solomon, History, p. 139
6. Asrat Waldeyes, "The Postliberation Period", pp. 255f
7. Brief History of the University (http://www.uog.edu.et/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&i
d=25&Itemid=28), University of Gondar website (accessed 3 March 2011)

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