Most illness starts long before the hospital.
Health Custodians Club trains health students to close the gap between how people live every day and what they know about it.
We make health knowledge simple enough to use.
Health Custodians Club trains students from across the health sciences in communication, leadership, languages and research; skills rarely found in our curriculum. Members use them to study the health problems around them and to explain health plainly, in the languages people speak, in schools, markets and rural communities.
Beyond the curriculum
A health degree teaches the science, but rarely teaches you how to lead a team, design a small study, or explain a diagnosis in Twi. That is where we come in.
Communication
Explaining diagnoses, risks and prevention in language people actually use.
Leadership
Running teams, chairing meetings and taking responsibility well.
Local languages
Serving patients in Twi, Ga, Ewe, Dagbani and the languages they speak.
Research methods
Framing a question, gathering evidence, drawing honest conclusions.
Disease studies
Deeper reading on the conditions members meet in community work.
Mentorship
Guidance from senior members and visiting health professionals.
We work in settings where health knowledge is needed most.
Members work in the places where day-to-day life shapes health: schools before habits set in, marketplaces where traders breathe open-air pollution, and rural communities where a clinic is hours away. Through regional representatives, outreaches are planned across all 16 regions of Ghana.
Two years of training, then alumni for good.
Members train together for two years and graduate with an official certificate. Alumni stay close, we mentor the next intake, supporting outreach in the regions, and keeping the work going long after the cohort ends.
Apply
A short seven-step form, open for each cohort.
Review
We read every answer and check details with regional representatives.
- If applicable
Interview
Some cohorts include a short conversation. We will tell you if yours does.
Admission
Accepted members receive a welcome email with next steps.
Cohort
Two years of Saturday training and community outreach.
Graduation
An official certificate for every member who completes the cohort.
Alumni
Stay close, mentor the next intake, keep the work going.
The club is open to tertiary students in the health sciences, Level 200 and above.
Apply to joinThe Health Custodians Club is an organisation that brings together health students, health professionals and health enthusiasts to promote health education, community service and personal development.
Ready to become a custodian?
Applications open with each cohort. If you study a health science at Level 200 or above, we would like to hear from you.