Samuel Agyei-Mensah

Contact info sagyei-mensah@ug.edu.gh

About

Professor Samuel Agyei-Mensah is a Professor of Population and Medical Geography at the Department of Geography and Resource Development. He has been Head of Department, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Provost of the College of Humanities, all at the University of Ghana. His research focuses on Population and Health Geography, with particular concern for the difference that space makes to environmental and population health. He is a Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former Provost Visiting Professor of Population Health, Imperial College London. He teaches the following courses:

 

Undergraduate Courses

  • GEOG 473: Medical Geography
  • GEOG 472: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Health and Development

Graduate Courses

  • GEOG 602: Explanations in Geography
  • GEOG 619: Medical Geography
  • GEOG 624: Developmental Changes in Human Health 
  • FSSP 701: Philosophy of Social Science
  • GEOG 706: Advanced Topics in Medical Geography

Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Kyei P S, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, John B. Casterline and Ayaga A. Bawah (2025). Trends in spousal age difference at first marriage in Sub-Saharan Africa (2025). Journal of Biosocial Science, pp. 1 – 17. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932025100333
  2. Metzler A B, Ricky Nathvani, Viktoriia Sharmanska, Wenjia Bai, Simon Moulds, Nkechi Srodah Owoo, Iris Ekua Mensimah Fynn, Emily Muller, Esaie Dufitimana, Ghafi Kondi Akara, George Owusu, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Majid Ezzati (2025). Unsupervised deep clustering of high-resolution satellite imagery reveals phenotypes of urban development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Science of the Total Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179739. 
  3. Howard B C,  Simon Moulds, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Khadiza Tul Kobra Nahin, Zahidul Quayyum, Brian E. Robinson, Wouter Buytaert (2025). Four Principles of Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change-Exacerbated Hazards in Informal Settlements. WIREs Climate Change. 16 (3),70008 https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70008
  4. Nathvani R, Cavanaugh A, Suel E, Bixby H, Clark SN, Metzler AB, Nimo J, Bedford-Moses J, Baah S, Arku RE, Robinson BE, Baumgartner J, Bennett JE, Arif AM, Long Y, Agyei-Mensah S, Ezzati M (2025). Measurement of urban vitality with time-lapsed street-view images and object-detection for scalable assessment of pedestrian sidewalk dynamics. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (221): pp. 251-264.
  5. Agyei-Mensah, S., Owusu, G., Awuni, C., Howard, B., Fuseini, I., Buytaert, W., & Berkhout, F. (2024). Chiefs and floods: hybrid governance and co-production of flood risk adaptation in Tamale, Ghana. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 26(6), 656-672. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2024.2410899
  6. Howard, B. C., Awuni, C. A., Agyei-Mensah, S., Bryant, L. D., Collins, A. M., Yidana, S. M., ... & Buytaert, W. (2024). Household-specific barriers to citizen-led flood risk adaptation. npj Climate Action, 3(1), 112. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-024-00198-y
  7. Kyere-Gyeabour, E., Sivakumar, A., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2024). Transit and fairness: Exploring spatial equity in Accra's public transport system. African Transport Studies, 2, 100012.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aftran.2024.100012
  8. Cavanaugh, A. C., Bixby, H. R., Mangwani, S., Agyei-Mensah, S., Awuni, C. A., Baumgartner, J. C., ... & Robinson, B. E. (2024). From consumption to context: assessing poverty and inequality across diverse socio-ecological systems in Ghana. Environmental Research Communications, 6(9), 091009. https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ad76ff
  9. Wang, J., Alli, A. S., Clark, S. N., Ezzati, M., Brauer, M., Hughes, A. F., Nimo, J., Bedford-Moses, J., Baah, S., Nathvani, R., Vishwanath, D., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Arku, R. E. (2024). Inequalities in urban air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa: an empirical modeling of ambient NO and NO2 concentrations in Accra, Ghana. Environmental Research Letters, 19(3), 034036. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad2892
  10. Virgili-Gervais, G., Schmidt, A. M., Bixby, H., Cavanaugh, A., Owusu, G., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Baumgartner, J. (2024). Mapping socio-economic status using mixed data: a hierarchical Bayesian approach. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, qnae080. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa/qnae080
  11. Cavanaugh, A. C., Baumgartner, J. C., Bixby, H., Schmidt, A. M., Agyei-Mensah, S., Annim, S. K., ... & Robinson, B. E. (2023). Strangers in a strange land: Mapping household and neighbourhood associations with improved wellbeing outcomes in Accra, Ghana. Cities, 143, 104584. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2023.104584
  12. Nathvani, R., Vishwanath, D., Clark, S. N., Alli, A. S., Muller, E., Coste, H., Bennett, J. E., Nimo, J., Moses, J. B., Baah, S., Hughes, A., Suel E., Metzler A. B., Brauer M., Baumgartner, J., Owusu G., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Ezzati, M. (2023). Beyond here and now: Evaluating pollution estimation across space and time from street view images with deep learning. Science of the Total Environment, 903, 166168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166168
  13. Amegah, A. K., Yeboah, K., Owusu, V., Afriyie, L., Kyere-Gyeabour, E., Appiah, D. C., Osei-Kufuor, P., Annim, S. K., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Mudu, P. (2023). Socio-demographic and neighbourhood factors influencing urban green space use and development at home: A population-based survey in Accra, Ghana. Plos One, 18(6), e0286332. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286332
  14. Metzler, A. B., Nathvani, R., Sharmanska, V., Bai, W., Muller, E., Moulds, S., Agyei-Asabere, C., Kyere-Gyeabour, E., Tetteh, J.D, Owusu, G., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Ezzati, M. (2023). Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning. Science of The Total Environment, 893, 164794. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164794
  15. MacTavish, R., Bixby, H., Cavanaugh, A., Agyei-Mensah, S., Bawah, A., Owusu, G., ... & Baumgartner, J. (2023). Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data. World Development, 167, 106253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106253
  16. Alli, A. S., Clark, S. N., Wang, J., Bennett, J., Hughes, A. F., Ezzati, M., Brauer, M., Nimo, J., Bedford-Moses, J., Baah, S., Cavanaugh, A., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Arku, R. E. (2023). High-resolution patterns and inequalities in ambient fine particle mass (PM2. 5) and black carbon (BC) in the Greater Accra Metropolis, Ghana. Science of the Total Environment, 875, 162582.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162582
  17. Nathvani, R., Clark, S. N., Muller, E., Alli, A. S., Bennett, J. E., Nimo, J., Bedford-Moses, J., Baah, S., Metzler, A. B., Brauer, M., Suel, E., Hughes, A. F., Rashid, T., Gemmell, E., Moulds, S., Baumgartner, J., Toledano, M. B., Agyemang, E., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Ezzati, M. (2022). Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 20470. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24474-1
  18. Agyei-Mensah, S., Kyere-Gyeabour, E., Mwaura, A., & Mudu, P. (2022). Between policy and risk communication: Coverage of air pollution in Ghanaian newspapers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), 13246. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013246
  19. Tetteh, J. D., Templeton, M. R., Cavanaugh, A., Bixby, H., Owusu, G., Yidana, S. M., ... & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2022). Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana. Population and Environment, 44(1), 46-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-022-00407-y
  20. Clark, S. N., Alli, A. S., Ezzati, M., Brauer, M., Toledano, M. B., Nimo, J., Bedford-Moses, J., Baah, S., Hughes, A., Cavanaugh, A., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Arku, R. E. (2022). Spatial modelling and inequalities of environmental noise in Accra, Ghana. Environmental Research, 214, 113932. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113932
  21. Moulds, S., Chan, A. C., Tetteh, J. D., Bixby, H., Owusu, G., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Templeton, M. R. (2022). Sachet water in Ghana: A spatiotemporal analysis of the recent upward trend in consumption and its relationship with changing household characteristics, 2010–2017. PLoS One, 17(5), e0265167. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265167
  22. Bixby, H., Bennett, J. E., Bawah, A. A., Arku, R. E., Annim, S. K., Anum, J. D., Mintah, S. E., Schmidt, A. M., Agyei-Asabere, C., Robinson, B. E., Cavanaugh, A., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Baumgartner, J. (2022). Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: a Bayesian spatial analysis. BMJ Open, 12(1), e054030. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-054030
  23. Adjei-Boadi, D., Agyei-Mensah, S., Adamkiewicz, G., Rodriguez, J. I., Gemmell, E., Ezzati, M., ... & Owusu, G. (2022). Neighbourhood, built environment and children’s outdoor play spaces in urban Ghana: Review of policies and challenges. Landscape and Urban Planning, 218, 104288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104288
  24. Wang, J., Alli, A. S., Clark, S., Hughes, A., Ezzati, M., Beddows, A., Vallarino, J., Nimo, J., Bedford-Moses, J., Baah, S., Owusu, G., Agyemang, E., Kelly, F., Barratt, B., Beevers, S., Agyei-Mensah, S., …& Arku, R. E. (2022). Nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) pollution in the Accra metropolis: Spatiotemporal patterns and the role of meteorology. Science of the Total Environment, 803, 149931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149931
  25. Alli, A. S., Clark, S. N., Hughes, A., Nimo, J., Bedford-Moses, J., Baah, S., Wang, J., Vallarino, J., Agyemang, E., Barratt, B., Beddows, A., Kelly, F., Owusu, G., Baumgartner, J., Brauer, M., Ezzati, M., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Arku, R. E. (2021). Spatial-temporal patterns of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) and black carbon (BC) pollution in Accra. Environmental Research Letters, 16(7), 074013. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac074a
  26. Agyemang, E., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Kyere-Gyeabour, E. (2021). Face mask use among commercial drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Community Health, 46(6), 1226-1235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-021-01004-0
  27. Clark, S. N., Alli, A. S., Nathvani, R., Hughes, A., Ezzati, M., Brauer, M., Toledano, M.B., Baumgartner, J., Bennett, J. E., Nimo, J., Bedford-Moses, J., Baah, S., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Arku, R. E. (2021). Space-time characterization of community noise and sound sources in Accra, Ghana. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 11113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90454-6
  28. Audia, C., Berkhout, F., Owusu, G., Quayyum, Z., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2021). Loops and building blocks: a knowledge co-production framework for equitable urban health. Journal of Urban Health, 98, 394-403. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00531-4
  29. Clark, S. N., Alli, A. S., Brauer, M., Ezzati, M., Baumgartner, J., Toledano, M. B., Hughes, A. F., Nimo, J., Moses, J. B., Terkpertey, S. and Vallarino, J., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Arku, R. E. (2020). High-resolution spatiotemporal measurement of air and environmental noise pollution in Sub-Saharan African cities: Pathways to Equitable Health Cities Study protocol for Accra, Ghana. BMJ Open, 10(8), e035798. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035798
  30. Kanhai, G., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Mudu, P. (2021). Population awareness and attitudes toward waste-related health risks in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 31(6), 670-686. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2019.1680818
  31. Amegah, A. K., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2017). Urban air pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Time for action. Environmental Pollution, 220, 738-743. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.042
  32. Casterline, J. B., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2017). Fertility desires and the course of fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Development Review, 43, 84-111. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12030
  33. Wrigley‐Asante, C., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Obeng, F. A. (2017). It's not all about wealth and beauty: Changing perceptions of fatness among Makola market women of Accra, Ghana. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 38(3), 414-428. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjtg.12200
  34. Arku, R. E., Bennett, J. E., Castro, M. C., Agyeman-Duah, K., Mintah, S. E., Ware, J. H., Nyarko, P., Spengler, J. D., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Ezzati, M. (2016). Geographical inequalities and social and environmental risk factors for under-five mortality in Ghana in 2000 and 2010: Bayesian spatial analysis of census data. PLoS Medicine, 13(6), e1002038. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002038
  35. Dake, F. A., Thompson, A. L., Ng, S. W., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Codjoe, S. N. (2016). The local food environment and body mass index among the urban poor in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Urban Health, 93, 438-455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-016-0044-y
  36. Agyei-Mensah, S., Owusu, G., & Wrigley-Asante, C. (2015). Urban health in Africa: looking beyond the MDGs. International Development Planning Review, 37(1), 53-60. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2015.6
  37. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Owoo, N. S. (2015). Explaining regional fertility variations in Ghana. Journal of Population Research, 32, 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12546-015-9147-7
  38. Owoo, N. S., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Onuoha, E. (2015). The effect of neighbourhood mortality shocks on fertility preferences: a spatial econometric approach. The European Journal of Health Economics, 16, 629-645. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-014-0615-3
  39. Sarkodie, A. O., Agyei-Mensah, S., Anarfi, J. K., & Bosiakoh, T. A. (2014). Education and employment outcomes in Ghana through the lens of the capability approach. African Population Studies, 28(2), 797-815. https://doi.org/10.11564/28-2-597
  40. Sauvain-Dugerdil, C., Bosiakoh, T. A., Diarra, S., Piraud, A., Diop, S., Anarfi, J., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2014). “Shaping the family”: Individual’s capabilities to exercise reproductive rights seen through a qualitative survey. African Population Studies, 28(2), 872-889. https://doi.org/10.11564/28-2-601
  41. Arku, R. E., Dionisio, K. L., Hughes, A. F., Vallarino, J., Spengler, J. D., Castro, M. C., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Ezzati, M. (2015). Personal particulate matter exposures and locations of students in four neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 25(6), 557-566. https://doi.org/10.1038/jes.2014.56
  42. Zhou, Z., Dionisio, K. L., Verissimo, T. G., Kerr, A. S., Coull, B., Howie, S., Arku, R. E., Koutrakis, P., Hughes, A., Vallarino, J., Spengler, J. D., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Ezzati, M. (2014). Chemical characterization and source apportionment of household fine particulate matter in rural, peri-urban, and urban West Africa. Environmental Science & Technology, 48(2), 1343-1351. https://doi.org/10.1021/es404185m
  43. Zhou, Z., Dionisio, K. L., Verissimo, T. G., Kerr, A. S., Coull, B., Arku, R. E., Koutrakis, P., Spengler, J. D., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Ezzati, M. (2013). Chemical composition and sources of particle pollution in affluent and poor neighborhoods of Accra, Ghana. Environmental Research Letters, 8(4), 044025. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/4/044025
  44. Rooney, M. S., Arku, R. E., Dionisio, K. L., Paciorek, C., Friedman, A. B., Carmichael, H., Zhou, Z., Hughes, A. F., Vallarino, J., Agyei-Mensah, S., ... & Ezzati, M. (2012). Spatial and temporal patterns of particulate matter sources and pollution in four communities in Accra, Ghana. Science of the Total Environment, 435, 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.077
  45. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Oteng-Ababio, M. (2012). Perceptions of health and environmental impacts of e-waste management in Ghana. International journal of environmental health research, 22(6), 500-517. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2012.667795
  46. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Owusu, G. (2012, March). Ethnic Residential Clusters in Nima, Ghana. Urban Forum. 23(1), 133-149. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-011-9127-8
  47. Owusu, G., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2011). A comparative study of ethnic residential segregation in Ghana’s two largest cities, Accra and Kumasi. Population and Environment, 32, 332-352. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-010-0131-z
  48. Zhou, Z., Dionisio, K. L., Arku, R. E., Quaye, A., Hughes, A. F., Vallarino, J., Spengler, J. D., Hill, A., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Ezzati, M. (2011). Household and community poverty, biomass use, and air pollution in Accra, Ghana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(27), 11028-11033. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1019183108
  49. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Owusu, G. (2010). Segregated by neighbourhoods? A portrait of ethnic diversity in the neighbourhoods of the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana. Population, Space and Place, 16(6), 499-516. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.551
  50. Agyei-Mensah, S., & de-Graft Aikins, A. (2010). Epidemiological transition and the double burden of disease in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 87 (5), 879-897. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-010-9492-y
  51. Agyei-Mensah, S., & French, P. L. (2010). Implementing academic quality assurance practices: The case of the University of Ghana. In University of West Indies Quality Education Forum (Vol. 16, pp. 31-47).
  52. Weeks, J. R., Getis, A., Hill, A. G., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Rain, D. (2010). Neighborhoods and fertility in Accra, Ghana: An AMOEBA-based approach. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100(3), 558-578. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045601003791391
  53. Dionisio, K. L., Arku, R. E., Hughes, A. F., Vallarino, J., Carmichael, H., Friedman, A. B., Agyei-Mensah, S., Spengler, J. D., & Ezzati, M. (2010). Particle pollution in Accra neighbourhoods: spatial, temporal, and socioeconomic patterns. Environmental Science and Technology, 44, 2270-2276. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ede.0000362309.99282.55
  54. Dionisio, K. L., Rooney, M. S., Arku, R. E., Friedman, A. B., Hughes, A. F., Vallarino, J., Carmichael, H., Agyei-Mensah, S., Spengler, J. D., & Ezzati, M. (2010). Within neighborhood patterns and sources of particle pollution: mobile monitoring and GIS analysis in four Accra communities. Environmental Health Perspectives, 118(5), 607-613. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.0901365
  55. Arku, R. E., Vallarino, J., Dionisio, K. L., Willis, R., Choi, H., Wilson, J. G., Hemphill, C., Agyei-Mensah, S., Spengler, J. D., & Ezzati, M. (2008). Characterizing air pollution in two low-income neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana. Science of the total environment, 402(2-3), 217-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.04.042
  56. Lund, R., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2008). Queens as mothers: The role of the traditional safety net of care and support for HIV/AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in Ghana. GeoJournal, 71, 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-008-9145-9
  57. Lund, R., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Jørgensen, S. H. (2008). New faces of poverty in Ghana. Editorial, Norwegian Journal of Geography, 62(3), 135-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291950802335426
  58. Owusu, G., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Lund, R. (2008). Slums of hope and slums of despair: Mobility and livelihoods in Nima, Accra. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 62(3), 180-190.https://doi.org/10.1080/00291950802335798
  59. Asiedu, A. B., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2008). Traders on the run: Activities of street vendors in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 62(3), 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291950802335806
  60. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Ardayfio-Schandorf, E. (2007). The global and the local: Urban change in Cape Coast from pre-colonial times to the present. Urban Design International, 12(2-3), 101-114. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.udi.9000191
  61. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2006). Marketing its colonial heritage: a new lease of life for Cape Coast, Ghana? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 30(3), 705-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2006.00679.x
  62. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2006). Fertility transition in Ghana: looking back and looking forward. Population, Space and Place, 12(6), 461-477. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.425
  63. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2006). Poverty and HIV prevalence in Ghana: A geographical perspective. GeoJournal, 66(4), 311-324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-006-9003-6
  64. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2005). The HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa: Homogeneity or heterogeneity? Norwegian Journal of Geography, 59(1), 14-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291950510020556
  65. Aase, A., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2005). HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: Geographical perspectives. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 59(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291950510020484
  66. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2002). Fertility transition in West Africa. Journal of African Policy Studies, 2, 63-86.
  67. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2001). HIV/AIDS and the Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa. Is there a link? Bulletin of the Ghana Geographical Association, 23, 40-48.
  68. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2001). Twelve years of HIV/AIDS in Ghana: puzzles of interpretation. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 35(3), 441-472. https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.2001.10751229
  69. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1999). Infant nutritional patterns and trends in Sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from demographic and health surveys 1986-1998. Research Review, 15(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.4314/rrias.v15i2.22882
  70. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1999). Risk Factors for Infant Mortality in a Fishing and a Farming Community in Ghana. Bulletin of the Ghana Geographical Association, 21, 65-78.
  71. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Aase, A. (1998). Patterns of fertility change in Ghana: A time and space perspective. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 80(4), 203-213. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0435-3684.1998.00040.x
  72. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1997). A Scenario for Fertility Change in Sub-Saharan Africa Up to 2020. Bulletin of the Ghana Geographical Association, 20, 101-116.
  73. Bodomo, A. B., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (1997). Integrating literacy and health education for a sustainable development in Africa. Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies, 16, 5-20.
  74. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1996). New perspective on the fertility situation in Sub–Saharan Africa. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 50, 101-112. https://doi.org/10.1080/00291959608542833

 

Books and Edited Books/Technical Publications

  1. Mudu, P., Adair-Rohani, H., deSouza, P., Gumy, S., …& Agyei-Mensah, S. (2023). Tracking urban health policies: a conceptual framework with special focus on air pollution in African cities. Geneva: World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
  2. Quartey, P., Agyei-Mensah, S., Codjoe, S. N. A., & Bamba, A. B. A. (Eds). (2018). Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Transformation in Africa. Sub-Saharan African Publishers, Accra, Ghana, 398 pages.
  3. Agyei-Mensah, S., Ayee J. A., & Oduro, A. D. (Eds). (2014). Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 347 pages. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8715-4
  4. Mturi A., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (Eds.) (2014). Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub- Saharan Africa: Projecting the Demographic Future. Edwin Mellen, Lewiston, NY, USA, Press,458 pages.
  5. de-Graft Aikins, A., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Agyemang, C. (Eds.) (2013). Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in Ghana: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Accra,Ghana, Sub-Saharan Publishers, Accra, Ghana, 159 pages.
  6. Owusu, G, Agyei-Mensah, S., Yankson, P. W. K., & Attua, E. M. (Eds.) (2013). Selected Readings in Geography. Woeli Pushing Services, Accra, Ghana, 297 pages.
  7. Yaro, J. A.,Codjoe, S.N.A; Agyei-Mensah, S.;Darkwah, A., & Kwankye, S. O. (2011). Migration and Population Dynamics: Changing Community Formations in Ghana. Accra, Ghana, Woeli Publishing Services, 147 pages.
  8. Ardayfio-Schandorf, E., Yankson, P. W. K., Asiedu, A. B., Agyei-Mensah, S., & Morgan Attua. (2007). Socio-Economic Perspectives of Off-Reserve Forest Management in the Goaso Forest District of Ghana. Woeli Publishing Services, Accra, Ghana. 176 pages.
  9. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Casterline J., B. (Eds.) (2003). Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. USA, 206 pages.
  10. Agyei-Mensah, S., Casterline, J. B. & Agyeman, D. K. (Eds.) (2005). Reproductive Change in Ghana, Recent Patterns and Future Prospects. Stylish Press, Accra, Ghana, 245 pages.
  11. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1999). Fertility Decline in Developing Countries, 1960 -1997: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. USA, 140 pages.

Book Chapters

  1. Howard, B. C., Awuni, C. A., Arif, A., Berkhout, F., Buytaert, W., & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2024). Co-production methodologies to deliver city-level flood resilience and reduce health inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa. In Climate and Health: Science-based policy solutions. A collection of case studies (pp. 77-86).  The InterAcademy Partnership.
  2. Casterline, J. B. & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2014). Fertility desires and fertility decline in sub-Saharan Africa. In A. Mturi, & S. Agyei-Mensah (Eds.),Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 169-200). New York: Edwin Mellen Press. https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12030
  3. Mturi, A., & Agyei-Mensah, S.(2014). Fertility diversity in sub-Saharan Africa.In A. Mturi, & S. Agyei-Mensah (Eds.), Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 1-26). New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
  4. Hill, A. G., Agyei-Mensah, S., Anarfi, J. K. (2014). Towards Replacement Level Fertility in Urban Africa: An Accra case Study. In A. Mturi & S. Agyei-Mensah (Eds.), Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa. Projecting the Demographic Future (pp. 399 – 440). New York: Edwin Mellen Press.
  5. Ayee, J. R. A., Agyei-Mensah, S.& Oduro A.D. (2014). Introduction. In S. Agyei-Mensah, J. A. Ayee, & A. D. Oduro (Eds), Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana (pp. 1-10). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8715-4_1
  6. Agyei-Mensah, S., Yaro, J. A., Mensah, J. (2014). Change and Continuity in the Practice and Development of Geography in Ghana. In S. Agyei-Mensah, J. A. Ayee, A. D. Oduro (Eds.), Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana (pp 51-74). Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8715-4_4
  7. Agyei-Mensah, S., & Wrigley-Asante, C. (2014). Gender, Politics and Development in Accra, Ghana. In C. Brun, P. Blaikie, & M. Jones (Eds.), Alternative Development: Unravelling Marginalisation and Voicing Change (pp. 117 – 133). Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
  8. Agyei-Mensah, S. and Oppong, J. R. (2013). The Changing Medical Geography of Africa. In G. Owusu, S. Agyei-Mensah, P. W. K. Yankson, & E. M. (Eds.), SelectedReadings in Geography (pp. 85-99). Woeli Publishing Services.
  9. Akyeampong, E. K. & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2006).Itinerant Gold Mines?Mobility, Sexuality and the Spread of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in 20th Century Ghana. In C. Oppong, Y. Oppong & Irene Odotei (Eds.), Sex and Gender in an Era of AIDS. Ghana at the close of the Millennium (pp. 41-58). Accra: Sub-Saharan African Publishers.