The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) Public Forum is one of the flagship programmes of the Academy (GAAS), convened to promote informed, evidence-based dialogue on issues of national importance. The 2026 edition, held from 1st–3rd June 2026 at the Academy’s Secretariat in Accra, focused on the theme, “Citizens and Democratic Consolidation in Ghana: Rights, Obligations and Duties.”
Prof. Samuel A. Debrah, FGA, President of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons, has called for postgraduate medical education to be recognized as a strategic national investment. Delivering his Inaugural Lecture in the Sciences of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) on Thursday, 18 June 2026, he said strengthening specialist medical training is critical to improving healthcare delivery and advancing Ghana’s long-term development.

