Honors, Awards, and Distinctions:
Donald J. Cohen Fellowship Award, Sep 2016: Selective leadership fellowship for emerging leaders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the 22nd IACAPAP World Congress, Calgary — one of only two fellows selected from sub-Saharan Africa.

Sangath Leadership in Mental Health Travel Fellowship, Dec 2016 (~US$2,000): Awarded as Best Student in Coursework (MSc CAMH, Ibadan) by the MacArthur Foundation–funded Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CCAMH) for a two-week leadership course at the Sangath Centre, Goa, India

Overall Best Master's Student & Best Thesis Award, MSc Child and Adolescent Mental Health, University of Ibadan, Jun 2017: Graduated with Distinction; best thesis for ‘Normative Data on the Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and the Slosson Intelligence Test among Children and Adolescents in Ghana’.

Best Poster Presentation, SASOP Biological Psychiatry Conference, Cape Town, Sep 2017 (US$500): First prize among ~60 posters from across Africa for ‘Socio-demographic and Ecological Correlates of Performance on Intelligence Tests among Children and Adolescents in Ghana’.

World Psychiatric Association (WPA) Leadership Training for Early Career Psychiatrists, Feb 2018; Travel grant (US$1,500): 6 of 322 applicants worldwide awarded, to present at the WPA Thematic Congress, Melbourne and attend a leadership seminar led by Prof. Norman Sartorius (former WPA President).

Commonwealth Scholarship, 2019 (No. GHCS-2019-169); value: £220,000 (~$296032.00 USD): UK government scholarship covering the full PhD (tuition, stipend) at the University of Cambridge — awarded annually from thousands of applicants across 66 Commonwealth countries.

Lasker Foundation Essay Competition Award, 2020 (US$2,000): One of 11 winners worldwide for the essay ‘As One Single Tribe: Thinking Globally and Locally’. Link: http://www.laskerfoundation.org/new-noteworthy/articles/winners-2020-lasker-essay-contest/