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The Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) has intensified national dialogue on the impact of cooking fuels on public health and the environment through its 2025 Annual Lecture in the Sciences, held on Thursday, 9 October 2025, at the Academy’s Secretariat in Accra.
A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, Prof. Richmond Nii Okai Aryeetey FGA, has called for the mainstreaming of nutrition into Ghana’s national development planning, emphasising that the country’s food systems governance remains fragmented and ineffective.
A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), Professor Elsie Effah Kaufmann FGA, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) in the United Kingdom. Her election was announced on 23rd September, 2025 at the Academy’s Annual General Meeting.
Music is defined as “vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.” Music has a great influence on man, from the womb to the last breath. Music can be created and enjoyed by all regardless of age, one’s socio-economic status, country of origin, religious beliefs, and ancestral heritage. The lecture starts with a brief write-up on Dr. Ephraim Amu in whose honour and memory the lecture was instituted by the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.
On Thursday, 11th September 2025, the Council of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), led by the President of the Academy, Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi, FGA, paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu, at the Ministry of Education in Accra.
On Monday, 11 August 2025, the President and Council of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), led by Emerita Professor Isabella A. Quakyi, FGA, visited the Ministry of Environment, Science and Technology (MEST) in Accra. They were there to sign the Book of Condolence in memory of the late Hon. Dr. Ibrahim Murtala Muhammed, Minister for Environment, Science, Technology (MEST).
Emerita Professor Isabella Akyinbah Quakyi, President of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), delivered a message of solidarity and a call to bold scientific leadership at the opening of the 9th Research Conference of the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP). Speaking on behalf of the Academy, she joined leading scientists, scholars, policymakers, and institutional partners from across the continent to support WACCBIP’s mission of advancing African-led biomedical research.
Professor Gladys Amponsah, FGA, a renowned Anaesthesiologist and respected member of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS), has urged Ghanaians to harness the power of music for its profound influence on child development, social life, therapy, and overall well-being.
We hosted 65 enthusiastic pupils from Grade 1 to 3 of Adormens Preparatory School at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (GAAS) Secretariat in Accra. The visit, which took place on Thursday, 26th June 2025, formed part of an educational excursion designed to spark curiosity and foster a love for learning among young minds.