Pathways to Equitable Healthy Cities

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

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, vol. 221, pp. 251-264, 2025.

Agyei-Mensah S, Owusu G, Awuni CA, Howard B, Fuseini I, Buytaert W, Berkhout F

Chiefs and floods: Hybrid governance and co-production of flood risk adaptation in Tamale, Ghana.

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, pp. 1-17, 2024.

Cavanaugh A, Bixby H, Mangwani S, Agyei-Mensah S, Awuni CA, Baumgartner J, Owusu G, Robinson BE

From consumption to context: assessing poverty and inequality across diverse socio-ecological systems in Ghana

Environmental Research Communications , vol. 6, pp. 091009, 2024.

Virgili-Gervais G, Schmidt AM, Bixby H, Cavanaugh A, Owusu G, Agyei-Mensah S, Robinson B, Baumgartner J

Mapping socio-economic status using mixed data: a hierarchical Bayesian approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, pp. qnae080, 2024.

Wang J, Alli AS, Clark SN, Ezzati M, Brauer M, Hughes AF, Nimo J, Bedford-Moses J, Baah S, Nathvani R

Inequalities in urban air pollution in sub-Saharan Africa: An empirical modelling of ambient NO and NO2 concentrations in Accra, Ghana

Environmental Research Letters, vol. 19, iss. 3, pp. 034036, 2024.

Yadav N, Sorek-Hamer M, Von Pohle M, Asanjan AA, Sahasrabhojanee A, Suel E, Arku R, Lingenfelter V, Brauer M, Ezzati M, Oza N, Ganguly AR

Using deep transfer learning and satellite imagery to estimate urban air quality in data-poor regions

Environmental Pollution, vol. 342, pp. 122914, 2024.

Kyere-Gyeabour E, Sivakumar A, Agyei-Mensah S

Transit and fairness: Exploring spatial equity in Accra's public transport system

African Transport Studies, vol. 2, pp. 100012, 2024.

Cavanuagh A, Baumgartner J, Bixby H, Schmidt A, Agyei-Mensah S, Annim SK, Anum J, Arku RE, Bennett JE, Berkout F, Ezzati M, Mintah SE, Owusu G, Tetteh JD, Robinson B

Strangers in a strange land: mapping household and neighbourhood associations with wellbeing outcomes in Accra, Ghana

Cities, vol. 143, pp. 104584, 2023.

Nathvani R, Vishwanath D, Clark SN, Alli AS, Muller E, Coste H, Bennett JE, Nimo J, Bedford-Moses J, Baah S, Hughes A, Suel E, Metzler AB, Rashid T, Brauer M, Baumgartner J, Owusu G, Agyei-Mensah S, Arku RE, Ezzati M

Beyond here and now: Evaluating pollution estimation across space and time from street view images with deep learning

Science of the Total Environment, vol. 903, pp. 166168, 2023.

Gemmell E, Adjei-Boadi D, Sarkar A, Shoari N, White K, Zdero S, Kassem H, Pujara T, Brauer M

“In small places, close to home”: Urban environmental impacts on child rights across four global cities

Health & Place, vol. 83, pp. 103081, 2023.

Metzler AB, Nathvani R, Sharmanska V, Bai W, Muller E, Moulds S, Agyei-Asabere C, Adjei-Boadi D, Kyere-Gyeabour E, Tetteh JD, Owuwu G, Agyei-Mensah S, Baumgartner J, Robinson BE, Arku RE, Ezzati M

Phenotyping urban built and natural environments with high-resolution satellite images and unsupervised deep learning

Science of the Total Environment, vol. 893, pp. 164794, 2023.

MacTavish R, Bixby H, Cavanaugh A, Agyei-Mensah S, Bawah AA, Owusu G, Ezzati M, Arku RE, Robinson BE, Schmidt AM, Baumgartner J

Identifying deprived “slum” neighbourhoods in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area of Ghana using census and remote sensing data

World Development, vol. 167, pp. 106253, 2023.

Alli AS, Clark SN, Wang J, Bennett JE, Hughes A, Hughes AF, Ezzati M, Brauer M, Nimo J, Bedford-Moses J, Baah S, Cavanaugh A, Agyei-Mensah S, Owusu G, Baumgartner J, Arku RE

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, vol. 875, pp. 162582, 2023.

Nathvani R, Clark SN, Muller E, Alli AS, Bennett JE, Nimo J, Moses JB, Baah S, Metzler AB, Brauer M, Suel E, Hughes AF, Rashid T, Gemmell E, Moulds S, Baumgartner J, Toledano MB, Agyei-Mensah S, Owusu G, Agyei-Mensah S, Arku RE, Ezzati M

Characterisation of urban environment and activity across space and time using street images and deep learning in Accra

Scientific Reports, vol. 12, iss. 1, pp. 20470, 2022.

Tetteh JD, Templeton MR, Cavanaugh A, Bixby H, Owusu G, Yidana SM, Moulds S, Robinson B, Baumgartner J, Annim SK, Quartey R, Mintah SE, Bawah AA, Arku RE, Ezzati M, Agyei-Mensah S

Spatial heterogeneity in drinking water sources in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA), Ghana

Population and Environment, vol. 44, iss. 1-2, pp. 46-76, 2022.

Clark SN, Alli AS, Ezzati M, Brauer M, Toledano MB, Nimo J, Bedford-Moses J, Baah S, Hughes AF, Cavanaugh A, Agyei-Mensah S, Owusu G, Robinson B, Baumgartner J, Bennett JE, Arku RE

Spatial modelling and inequalities of environmental noise in Accra, Ghana

Environmental Research, vol. 214, iss. 2, pp. 113932, 2022.

Moulds S, Chan ACH, Tetteh JD, Bixby H, Owusu G, Agyei-Mensah S, Ezzati M, Buytaert W, Templeton MR

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, vol. 17, iss. 5, pp. e0265167, 2022.

Adjei-Boadi D, Agyei-Mensah S, Adamkiewicz G, Rodriguez JI, Gemmell E, Ezzati M, Baumgartner J, Owusu G

Neighbourhood, built environment and children’s outdoor play spaces in urban Ghana: Review of policies and challenges

Landscape and Urban Planning, vol. 218, pp. 104288, 2022.

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

Quantifying within-city inequalities in child mortality across neighbourhoods in Accra, Ghana: A bayesian spatial analysis

BMJ Open, vol. 12, pp. e054030, 2022.

Wang J, Alli AS, Clark S, Hughes AF, 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, Baumgartner J, Brauer M, Arku RE

Nitrogen oxides (NO and NO2) pollution in the Accra metropolis: Spatiotemporal patterns and the role of meteorology

Science of The Total Environment, vol. 803, pp. 149931, 2022.

Clark SN, Bennett JE, Arku RE, Hill AG, Fink G, Adanu RM, Biritwum RB, Darko R, Bawah A, Duda RB, Ezzati M

Small area variations and factors associated with blood pressure and body-mass index in adult women in Accra, Ghana: bayesian spatial analysis of a representative population survey and census data

PLoS Medicine, vol. 18, iss. 11, pp. e1003850, 2021.

Agyemang E, Agyei-Mensah S, Kyere-Gyeabour E

Face mask use among commercial drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Accra, Ghana

Journal of Community Health , vol. 46, pp. 1226–1235, 2021.

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

Spatial-temporal patterns of ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon (BC) pollution in Accra

Environmental Research Letters, vol. 16, iss. 7, pp. 074013, 2021.

Clark SN, Alli AS, Nathvani R, Hughes AF, Ezzati M, Brauer M, Toledano MB, Baumgartner J, Bennett JE, Nimo J, Bedford-Moses J, Baah S, Agyei-Mensah S, Owusu G, Croft B, Arku RE

Space-time characterization of community noise and sound sources in Accra, Ghana

Scientific Reports , vol. 11, pp. 11113, 2021.

Audia C, Berkhout F, Owusu G, Quayyum Z, Agyei-Mensah S

Loops and building blocks: a knowledge co-production framework for equitable urban health

Journal of Urban Health, vol. 98, pp. 394–403, 2021.