Ms. Yaa Amankwaa Opuni was appointed as the third Registrar of UHAS, effective August 2022. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Administrators and Management Consultants, Ghana and a member of Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA).

She is among the core foundation staff of UHAS who assisted management to put systems and structures in place for a smooth take-off and running of the University when it was established in 2012. From planning of new academic programmes and taking them through accreditation; recruitment of faculty, administrative and junior staff; admission of students and orientation; to arrangements for examinations and accommodation, combined with planning, designing and presiding over the building of physical infrastructure from ground zero.

Appointed as an Assistant Registrar in 2012, Ms. Opuni has held various schedules in UHAS, including assignment to the Office of the Registrar from 2012 to 2017. Following her promotion to Senior Assistant Registrar in 2017, she was transferred to the Human Resource Directorate to head the Recruitment, Promotion and Separation Unit.  From 2019 to 2021 Ms. Opuni was transferred to the Fred Binka School of Public Health in Hohoe, a satellite campus of UHAS, as the School Officer, where she was the sole administrator responsible for Academic and Student Affairs, Human Resource Management, and General Administration. She worked with the School’s management to restructure the administrative set-up and deepen the academic processes in the School. From Binka School until her appointment as Registrar, Ms. Opuni served as the School Officer of the School Pharmacy.