Divisional Health Development Centre (DHDC) Abbottabad is one of the four functional Divisional Health Development Centres administered by the Provincial Health Services Academy.

Like its sister centres across the province, it traces its origins to the network of DHDCs launched in the 1990s under the World Bank-funded Family Health Project. When that project concluded in December 1999, DHDC Abbottabad — together with the province's other DHDCs, Nursing Schools, and Paramedical Training Institutes — was placed under the full administrative and financial control of PHSA.

The Centre now serves as a regional training hub for the Hazara region, delivering in-service training, on-the-job orientation, and continuing professional development for serving Health Department staff, with particular emphasis on supervisory and management capacity-building alongside technical refresher training for paramedical and nursing personnel already posted in the field.