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Samuel Agyei-Mensah

Samuel Agyei-Mensah
Professor
sagyei-mensah@ug.edu.gh

 

EDUCATION:

1997. Ph.D Norwegian University of Science and Technology

1986. B.A (HONS) University of Ghana 

AREA OF SPECIALISATION:

  • Population and Medical Geography;
  • Regional Development.

COURSES TAUGHT CURRENTLY:

  • FSSP 701: Philosophy of the Social Sciences
  • GEOG 619: Medical Geography
  • GEOG 602: Explanations in Geography
  • GEOG 624: Developmental Changes and Human Health

CURRENT RESEARCH

  • Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities
  • Ethnic Residential Segregation in major Cities of Ghana
  • Demographic and Epidemiological Transition in Accra
  • Fertility Decline and Fertility Preferences in Africa
  • Knowledge  Co-Production

PUBLICATIONS 

  1. Bixby H, Bennett JE, Bawah AA, Arku RE, Annim SK, Anum JD, Mintah SE, Schmidt AM, Agyei-Asabere C, Robinson BE, Cavanaugh A, Agyei-Mensah S, Owusu G, Ezzati M, Baumgartner J (2022). Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: a Bayesian spatial analysis  BMJ Open, 12, pp. e054030.

  2. Adjei-Boadi D, Agyei-Mensah S, Adamkiewicz G, Rodriguez JI, Gemmell E, Ezzati M, Baumgartner J, 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 , pp. 104288
  3. Wang J, Alli AS, Clark S, Hughes A, Ezzati M, Beddows A, Vallarino J, Nimo J, Bedford-Mose J, Baah S, Owusu G, Agyemang E, Kelly F, Barratt B, Beevers, Agyei-Mensah S, Baumgartner J, Brauer M, Arku RE (2022). Nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) pollution in the Accra metropolis: Spatiotemporal patterns and the role of meteorology. Science of The Total Environment, 803, pp. 149931, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149931
  4. Alli AS, Clark SN, Hughes AF, 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, E Arku R (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
  5. Agyemang, E, Agyei-Mensah Samuel, Kyere-Gyeabour, Elvis (2021). Face Mask Use Among Commercial Drivers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Community Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-021-01004-0.
  6. Clark, S.N, Abosede S.A, Ricky Nathvani, Allison Hughes, Majid Ezzati, Michael Brauer Mireille B.Toledano, Jill Baumgartner, James E. Bennett, James Nimo, Josephine Bedford Moses, Solomon Baah, Samuel Agyei‑Mensah, George Owusu, Briony Croft & Raphael E. Arku (2021).  Space‑time characterization of community noise and sound sources in Accra, Ghana.  Scientific Reports Vol.11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90454-6
  7. Camilla Audia, Frans Berkhout, George Owusu, Zahidul Quayyum & Samuel Agyei-Mensah (2021). Loops and Building Blocks: A Knowledge co-Production Framework for Equitable Urban Health. Journal of Urban Health https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-021-00531-4
  8. Clark S, Alli AS, Brauer M, Ezzati M, Baumgartner J, Toledano M, Hughes A, Nimo J, Moses J, Terkpertey S, Vallarino J, Agyei-Mensah S, Agyemang E, Nathvani R, Muller E, Bennett J, Wang J, Beddows A, Kelly F, Barratt B, Beevers S, Arku R (2020). High-resolution spatio-temporal measurement of air and environmental noise pollution in sub-Saharan African cities: Pathways to Equitable Health Cities Study protocol for Accra, Ghana. British Medical Journal (BMJ Open) http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-035798
  9. Kanhai, Gina, Agyei-Mensah, Samuel & Mudu, Pierpaolo (2021). Population awareness and attitudes toward waste-related health risks in Accra, Ghana. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 31 (6): 670-686.
  10. Agyei-Mensah, S., Ayaga A Bawah, Elvis Kyere Gyearbour (2018). Challenges of monitoring and developing environmental policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The case of air pollution and biofuels in Ghana. Toxic News:  https://toxicnews.org/2018/09/03/ 
  11. Amegah Adeladza, K. and Agyei-Mensah Samuel (2017). Urban Air Pollution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Time for Action. Environmental Pollution, 220:738-743
  12. Casterline, J.B and Agyei‐Mensah, S. (2017). Fertility Desires and the Course of Fertility Decline in sub-Saharan Africa. Population and Development Review, 43 (S1):84-111.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/padr.12030
  13. Charlotte Wrigley-Asante, Agyei-Mensah Samuel, Faustina Adomaa Obeng (2017). It’s not all about wealth and beauty: Changing perceptions of fatness among Makola market women in Accra, Ghana. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 38 (3): 414-428.
  14. Arku, R.A. , James E. Bennett, Marcia C. Castro , Kofi Agyeman-Duah,  Samilia E. Mintah, James H. Ware , Philomena Nyarko , John D. Spengler, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Majid Ezzati (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. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002038
  15. Dake, F. A.; Amanda L Thompson; Shu Wen Ng;  Samuel Agyei-Mensah; Samuel N. A. Codjoe (2016). The Local Food Environment and Body Mass Index among the Urban Poor in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 93 (3): 438-455.
  16. Agyei-Mensah, S, George Owusu and Charlotte Wrigley-Asante (2015). Urban Health in Africa: Looking Beyond the MDGs. International Development Planning Review 37 (1): 37 (1): 53-60.
  17. Agyei-Mensah, S. and Owoo, N.S. (2015). Explaining Regional Fertility Variations in Ghana. Journal of Population Research, 32 (3-4): 157-172.
  18. 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(6): 629-645.
  19. Adu Owusu Sarkodie, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, John Anarfi, Thomas Antwi Bosiakoh (2014). Education and Employment Outcomes in Ghana through the Lens of the Capability Approach. African Population Studies, 28 (2): 797-815.
  20. Claudine Sauvain-Dugerdil, Thomas Antwi Bosiakoh, Samba Diarra, Anouk Piraud, Samba Diop, John Anarfi, Samuel Agyei-Mensah (2014). “Shaping the family”: Individual’s capabilities to exercise reproductive rights seen through a qualitative survey. African Population Studies, 28 (2): 872-889.
  21. Raphael E.Arku, Kathie L. Dionisio, Allison F. Hughes, Jose Valerino, John Spengler, Maria Castro, Samuel Agyei-Mensah and Majid Ezzati (2014). Personal particulate matter exposures and locations of students in four neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology. doi: 10.1038/jes.2014.56.
  22. Zheng Zhou, Kathie L Dionisio, Thiago G Verissimo, Americo Kerr, Brent Coull, Stephen Howie, Raphael E Arku, Petros Koutrakis, Allison Hughes, Jose vallarino, John D Spengler, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Majid Ezzati (2014). Chemical Characterization and Source Apportionment of Household Fine Particulate Matter in Rural, Peri-urban and Urban West Africa. Environmental Science and Technology, 48 (2): 1343-1351.
  23. Zheng Zhou, Kathie L Dionisio, Thiago G Verissimo, Raphael E Arku, Petros Koutrakis, John D Spengler, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Majid Ezzati (2013). Chemical composition and sources of particle pollution in affluent and poor neighborhoods of Accra. Environmental Research Letters, 8, 1748-9326.
  24. Rooney, M.S, Michael S. Rooney, Raphael E. Arku, Kathie L. Dionisio, Christopher Paciorek, Ari B. Friedman, Heather Carmichael, Zheng Zhou, Allison F. Hughes, Jose Vallarino, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, John D. Spengler, Majid Ezzati (2014). Spatial Patterns of Particulate Matter Sources and Pollution in Four Communities in Accra, Ghana. Science of the Total Environment, 435-436: 107-114.
  25. Agyei-Mensah, S and 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.
  26. Agyei-Mensah, S and Owusu, G. (2012). Ethnic Residential Clusters in Nima, Ghana. Urban Forum.23 (1): 133-149.
  27. Owusu, G and Agyei-Mensah, S (2011). A Comparative Study of Ethnic Residential Segregation in Ghana’s Two Largest Cities, Accra and Kumasi. Population and Environment. 32 (4): 332-352.
  28. Zheng Zhou , Kathie L Dionisio , Raphael E Arku , Audrey Quaye, Allison F Hughes, Jose Vallarino, John D Spengler, Allan Hill, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Majid Ezzati (2011). Household and Community Poverty, biomass use, and air pollution in Accra, Ghana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 108 (27): 11028-11033.
  29. Agyei-Mensah, S & Owusu, G. (2010). Segregated by Neighbourhoods? A Portrait of Ethnic Diversity in the Neighbourhoods of the Accra Metropolitan Area. Population, Space and Place. 16 (6): 499-516.
  30. Agyei-Mensah, S & Ama de Graft Aikins (2010). Epidemiological transition and the double burden of disease in Accra. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine. 87 (5): 879-897.
  31. Agyei-Mensah Samuel and P. L. French (2010). Implementing Academic Quality Assurance Practices: The Case of the University of Ghana. The University of the West Indies Quality Education Forum, 16: 31-47.
  32. Weeks, J. R., A. Getis, A. G. Hill, S. Agyei-Mensah, and D. Rain (2010). Neighborhoods and Fertility in Accra, Ghana: An AMOEBA-based Approach. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 100 (3): 558-578.
  33. Dionisio KL, Arku RE, Hughes AF, Vallarino J, Carmichael H, Friedman AB, Agyei-Mensah S, Spengler JD, Ezzati M (2010). Particle Pollution in Accra Neighborhoods: Spatial, Temporal, and Socioeconomic Patterns. Environmental Science and Technology, 44: 2270–2276.
  34. Dionisio KL, Rooney MS, Arku RE, Friedman AB, Paciorek C, Hughes A.F.Vallarino J, Carmichael H, Agyei-Mensah S, Spengler JD, 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.
  35. Arku, R; M; J. Vallarino; K.L. Dionisio; J.G. Wilson; C. Memphill; Agyei-Mensah, S; Spengler, J ; Ezzati, M. (2008). Characterizing Air Pollution in Two Low-Income Neighborhoods in Accra, Ghana. Science of the Total Environment, 402 (2-3): 217-231.
  36. 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.
  37. Lund, R., Agyei-Mensah, S. and Jorgensen, S.H. (2008). New Faces of Poverty in Ghana. Editorial, Norwegian Journal of Geography. 62 (3): 135-138.
  38. Owusu, G, Agyei-Mensah, S. & Lund, R. (2008). Slums of Hope and Slums of Despair. Mobility and Livelihoods in Nima.  Norwegian Journal of Geography. 62 (3):180-190.
  39. Asiedu, A.B & Agyei-Mensah, S (2008). Traders on the Run: Activities of Street Vendors in the Accra Metropolitan Area. Norwegian Journal of Geography. 62 (3): 191-202.
  40. 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.
  41. 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.
  42. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2006). Fertility Transition in Ghana: Looking Back and Looking Forward. Population, Space and Place, 12, 6: 461-477.
  43. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2006). Poverty and HIV Prevalence in Ghana: A Geographical Perspective. Geojournal, 66: 311-324.
  44. Agyei-Mensah, S (2005). The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: Homogeneity or heterogeneity? Norwegian Journal of Geography.  59 (1): 14-25.
  45. AsbjornAase and Samuel Agyei-Mensah (2005). HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Geographical Perspectives. Norwegian Journal of Geography, 59 (1): 1-5.
  46. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2002). Fertility Transition in West Africa. The Journal of African Policy Studies, 2 & 3: 63-86.
  47. 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.
  48. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2001). Twelve Years of HIV/AIDS in Ghana: Puzzles of Interpretation. Canadian Journal of African Studies, 35 (3): 441¬-472.
  49. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1999). Infant Nutritional Patterns and Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) 1986-1998. Research Review 5 (2): 1-11.
  50. 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.
  51. Agyei-Mensah, S & A. Aase (1998). Patterns of Fertility Change in Ghana: A Time and Space Perspective. Geografiska Annaler Series B, Vol. 80B, No. 4: 203-213.
  52. 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.
  53. Bodomo, A & S. Agyei-Mensah (1997). Integrating Literacy and Health Education for a Sustainable Development in Africa. Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies. 16: 5-20.
  54. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1996). New Perspective on the Fertility Situation in Sub Saharan Africa. Norwegian Journal of Geography. 50: 101-112.

Books/ Edited Books

  1. Quartey, Peter; Agyei-Mensah Samuel; Ardey Codjoe Samuel; Bazit Bamba (eds) (2018). Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Transformation in Africa. Accra, Sub-Saharan African Publishers.
  2. Agyei-Mensah S, Atsu Ayee J., Oduro, A. D. (eds) (2014). Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana.  Dordrecht, Netherlands. Springer, 347 pages. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-94-017-8715-4
  3. Akim Mturi and Samuel Agyei-Mensah (eds.) (2014). Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa: Projecting the Demographic Future. Lewiston, NY, USA. Edwin Mellen Press, 458 pages
  4. de-Graft Aikins, A; Agyei-Mensah, S, and Agyemang, C. (2013) (eds.). Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases in Ghana: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Sub-Saharan Publishers, Accra, Ghana. 159 pages.
  5. Owusu, G, Agyei-Mensah, S, Yankson, P.W.K. and Attua, E.M (eds.) (2013). Selected Readings in Geography. Woeli Pushing Services, Accra, Ghana.
  6. Yaro, J.W; Codjoe, A.N.A; Agyei-Mensah, S; Darkwah, A and Kwankye, S.O. (2011). Migration and Population Dynamics: Changing Community Formations in Ghana. 147 pages. Accra, Woeli Publishing Services.
  7. Ardayfio-Schandorf, E, P.W.K. Yankson, A. Asiedu, Samuel Agyei-Mensah and 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.
  8. Agyei-Mensah, Samuel and John. B. Casterline (eds.) (2003). Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. USA. 206 pages.
  9. Agyei-Mensah, Samuel, John. B. Casterline and Dominic K. Agyeman (eds.) (2005) Reproductive Change in Ghana, Recent Patterns and Future Prospects. Stylish Press, Accra. 245 pages.
  10. Agyei-Mensah, S. (1999). Fertility Decline in Developing Countries, 1960¬-1997: An Annotated Bibliography. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. USA. 140 pages.

Book Chapters.

  1. Casterline, J.B. & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2014). Fertility Desires and Fertility Decline in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Akim Mturi and S. Agyei-Mensah (eds.). Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edwin Mellen Press, USA, pp 169-200.
  2. Akim Mturi & Agyei-Mensah, S. (2014). Fertility Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Akim Mturi and Samuel Agyei-Mensah (eds.). Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edwin Mellen Press, pages 1-26.
  3. Hill, A.G., Agyei-Mensah, S., Anarfi, J.K (2014).Towards Replacement Level Fertility in Urban Africa: An Accra case Study. In Akim Mturi and S. Agyei-Mensah (eds.). Explaining Fertility Differences in Sub-Saharan Africa. Projecting the Demographic Future. Lewiston, NY, USA, Edwin Mellen Press, pp 399-440.
  4. Ayee, J.R.A, Agyei-Mensah, S. and Oduro A.D. (2014). Introduction. In Agyei-Mensah, S, Ayee J.R.A and Oduro A.D. (eds). Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana. Springer, Netherlands. Pages 1-10.
  5. Agyei-Mensah, S., Yaro, J.A., Mensah, J. (2014). Change and Continuity in the Practice and Development of Geography in Ghana. In Agyei-Mensah, S, Ayee J.A, Oduro, A.D. (eds.). Changing Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Ghana. Springer, Netherlands.
  6. Agyei-Mensah, S and Wrigley-Asante, C (2014). Gender, Politics and Development in Accra, Ghana. In Brun, C., Blaikie, P and Jones, M. (eds.): Alternative Development: Unraveling Marginalisation and Voicing Change. Ashgate, pp 117-133.
  7. Agyei-Mensah, S. and Oppong, J.R. (2013). The Changing Medical Geography of Africa. In  George Owusu, Agyei-Mensah, S, Yankson, P.W.K. and Attua, E.M. (eds.). Selected Readings in Geography. Woeli Publishing Services, pp. 85-99.
  8. Akyeampong, Emmanuel. K and Agyei-Mensah, S. (2006). Itinerant Gold Mines? Mobility, Sexuality and the Spread of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in 20th Century Ghana. In Christine Oppong, Yaa Oppong and Irene Odotei (eds.) Sex and Gender in an Era of AIDS. Ghana at the close of the Millennium. Sub-Saharan African Publishers, Accra, Ghana, pp. 41-58.
  9. Oppong Joseph.R. and Samuel Agyei-Mensah (2004). HIV/AIDS in West Africa: The Case of Senegal, Ghana and Nigeria. In E. Kalipeni, S. Craddock, J.R. Oppong and J. Ghosh (eds.). HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology. Blackwell Publishers, Malden, USA, pp. 70-82.
  10. Agyei-Mensah Samuel, A. Aase, K. Awusabo-Asare (2003). Social Setting, Birth Timing and Subsequent Fertility in the Ghanaian South. In Samuel Agyei-Mensah and John B. Casterline (eds.). Reproduction and Social Context in Sub-Saharan Africa. Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. USA. pp. 89-108.

Edited Conference Proceedings and Chapters

  1. Agyei-Mensah, S., Awusabo-Asare, K., Nabila, J.S., Yankson, P.W.K. (2004). Poverty Health and Gender. Proceedings of the NUFU Workshop 6-8 January, 2004. Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana.115 pages.
  2. Awusabo-Asare, K, Agyei-Mensah, S. and Jorgensen, S.H. (2005). The Changing Faces of Poverty in Ghana. Proceedings of the NUFU Workshop, October, 2005. University of Ghana, Department of Geography and Resource Development. 125 pages.
  3. Agyei-Mensah, S. and Lund, R. (2005). The Well-Being of HIV/AIDS Patients Undergoing Anti-Retroviral Therapy at a Health Care Facility in Ghana. In Awusabo-Asare, Agyei-Mensah, S. and Jorgensen, S. (eds.). The Changing Faces of Poverty in Ghana. Pp.54-64. Proceedings of the NUFU Workshop, October, 2005. University of Ghana, Department of Geography and Resource Development.
  4. Agyei-Mensah, S. (2015) A Review of Urban Air Pollution in Africa. In Proceedings of Environment and Health Symposium, page 30-31. 1-3 June 2015. October 2015. Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF).

Book Review

  1. Agyei-Mensah, S. Review of “Environmental Health Watch and Disaster Monitoring in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area” (GAMA), by Jacob Songsore, J.S.Nabila, Yvon Yangyuoru, Sebastian Avle, E.K. Bosque-Hamilton, Paulina E. Amponsah, Osman Alhassan (Ghana Universities Press, Accra, 2009). The New Legon Observer, Vol. 4. No. 2: 31-32. 2010.