Divisional Health Development Centre (DHDC) Bannu operates as a sub-office of the Provincial Health Services Academy, Peshawar, with the specific mandate of building the capacity of Health Department human resources at the district level in Bannu and the surrounding region.

Like the Academy's other Divisional Health Development Centres, it grew out of the World Bank-funded Family Health Project of the 1990s and was formally integrated into PHSA once that project closed in December 1999.

DHDC Bannu delivers in-service training, on-the-job orientation, and continuing professional development for serving health staff, helping the Academy extend its training reach into southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.