Book Chapter and Thesis
1. Kusi-Mensah, K. (2023). Conceptualisation and Culturally Appropriate Assessment of Executive Function in Children in Ghana and Nigeria [PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.113414

2. Omigbodun O., Kusi-Mensah K., Bella-Awusah T., Ani C. (2017) “The Changing Landscape of Child and Adolescent Mental Health in sub-Saharan Africa” Chapter 6, pp93-122, in Omigbodun O, Oyebode F, Adedeji O. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Mental Health Care in sub-Saharan Africa (2017) Ibadan Medical Specialist Group. Publishers: BookBuilders Publishers 2 Awosika Avenue Bodija, Ibadan ISBN: 978-978-921-159-3. https://books.google.com.ng/books/about/Contemporary_Issues_in_Mental_Health_Car.html?id=1vFTDwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y

Journal Publications
Ezeugwu C, Adedayo M, Olaseni J, Kusi-Mensah K. (2026) Examining Psychometric Properties of the NIH Toolbox Executive Function Battery and Latent Profile Analysis in Non-Clinical Preschoolers in Nigeria. Dev Neuropsychol. Published online February 17, 2026. doi:10.1080/87565641.2026.2656782

Kusi-Mensah, K., Babalola, D., Omuojine, J. P., Owusu-Antwi, R., Daliri, D. B., Bediako, E., Burn, A. M., Omigbodun, O., & Bateman, A. (2026). A Survey of Health Workers in Ghana and Nigeria on the Potential Burden and Local Assessment of Executive Dysfunction Among Children. Psychiatric Quarterly 2026, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11126-025-10244-5

Kusi-Mensah, K., Inuwa, K., Otu-Ansah, C., Ekremet, P. A., Sackey, R. C., Owusu-Antwi, R., Ohene, S., & Omigbodun, O. (2024). Prevalence, Patterns and Correlates of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders in Kumasi, Ghana: An Urban Community-Based Survey. Child Psychiatry & Human Development 2024, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10578-024-01799-8

Abubakar-Abdullateef, A., Kusi-Mensah, K., Sun, L., Mohammed, A., & Sheikh, T. L. (2025). Assessing factor structure and measurement invariance of WISC-IV among almajiris attending quranic schools and pupils attending mainstream public primary schools in Northern Nigeria. Applied Neuropsychology-Child, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2025.2475297

Wemakor, S., Kusi-Mensah, K., Omuojine, J. P., Mensah, R., & Owusu-Antwi, R. (2025). Factors influencing the length of stay in the psychiatric unit of a Ghanaian teaching hospital: a retrospective study. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2025 60:9, 60(9), 2089–2097. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00127-025-02889-1

Kusi-Mensah, K., Tamambang, R., Bella-Awusah, T., Ogunmola, S., Afolayan, A., Toska, E., Hertzog, L., Rudgard, W., Evans, R., Omigbodun, O. (2022). Accelerating progress towards the sustainable development goals for adolescents in Ghana: a cross-sectional study. Psychology, Health & Medicine (2022). DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2022.2108086 . https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13548506.2022.2108086

Kusi-Mensah, K., Nuamah, N. D., Wemakor, S., Agorinya, J., Seidu, R., Martyn-Dickens, C., & Bateman, A. (2022). A Systematic Review of the Validity and Reliability of Assessment Tools for Executive Function and Adaptive Function Following Brain Pathology among Children and Adolescents in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Neuropsychol Rev (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-022-09538-3

Kusi-Mensah, K., Nuamah, N. D., Wemakor, S., Agorinya, J., Seidu, R., Martyn-Dickens, C., & Bateman, A. (2021). Assessment Tools for Executive Function and Adaptive Function Following Brain Pathology Among Children in Developing Country Contexts: a Scoping Review of Current Tools. Neuropsychology Review 2021, 169(7), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/S11065-021-09529-W

Kwabena Kusi-Mensah, Gordon Donnir, Stephen Wemakor, Ruth Owusu-Antwi, Olayinka Omigbodun (2019) ‘Prevalence and patterns of mental disorders among primary school age children in Ghana: correlates with academic achievement’, Journal of Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Routledge, 31(3), pp. 214–223. doi: 10.2989/17280583.2019.1678477

Tamambang, R., Kusi-Mensah, K., Bella-Awusah, T., Ogunmola, O., Afolayan, A., Toska, E., Hertzog, L., Rudgard, W., Evans, R., Stöeckl, H., Cluver, L., Omigbodun, O., & Tamambang, R. (2024). Two are Better Than One but Three is Best: Fast-Tracking the Attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Among In-School Adolescents in Nigeria. Child Indicators Research 2024, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/S12187-024-10160-3

Abubakar-Abdullateef, A., Mohammed, A., Kusi-Mensah, K., Mohammed, H. D., & Kakangi, A. S. (2024). A Comparative Study of Intelligence Quotients of Almajirai Attending Quranic Schools and Pupils of Selected Primary Schools in Zaria, Northwest Nigeria. West African Journal of Medicine, 41(6), 699–707. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/39340822 

Tamambang, R., Kusi-Mensah, K., Bella-Awusah, T., Ogunmola, O., Afolayan, A., Toska, E., Hertzog, L., Rudgard, W., Evans, R., & Omigbodun, O. (2024). Identifying potential catalysts to accelerate the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) among adolescents living in Nigeria. Psychology, Health & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2023.2289476 : was responsible for conceptualisation and revision of the draft.

Schiller, D., Yu, A. N. C., Alia-Klein, N., Becker, S., Cromwell, H. C., Dolcos, F., Eslinger, P. J., Frewen, P., Kemp, A. H., Pace-Schott, E. F., Raber, J., Silton, R. L., Stefanova, E., Williams, J. H. G., Abe, N., Aghajani, M., Albrecht, F., Alexander, R., Anders, S.,… Kusi-Mensah, K., … Leonie, L. (2024). The Human Affectome. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 158, 105450. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.NEUBIOREV.2023.105450

Omuojine, J.-P., Bello, T., Wemakor, S., Mante, P. K., Amponsah, G. S., Kusi-Mensah, K., Owusu-Antwi, R., Sarfo, F. S., Ohene, S., & Ojagbemi, A. (2023). Risk factors and outcomes of delirium in hospitalized older Ghanaians. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 38(4), e5912. https://doi.org/10.1002/GPS.5912 

Tamsin Ford, Kwabena Kusi-Mensah, Tamsin Newlove-Delgado, Paul Ramchandani, Fiona Price-Kuehne, David Rowitch (2021) “Optimising the health-care experiences of babies, children, and young people”, The Lancet, Volume 398, Issue 10307, Pages 1201-1203, ISSN 0140-6736, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02124-3

Kusi-Mensah, K. and Omigbodun, O. (2020) ‘Children left behind by parental migration in sub-Saharan Africa.’, The Lancet. Child & adolescent health. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30398-0

Paul Frewen, Matthias L Schroeter, Giuseppe Riva, Pietro Cipresso, Beth Fairfield, Caterina Padulo, Andrew Haddon Kemp, Lena Palaniyappan, Mayowa Owolabi, Kwabena Kusi-Mensah, Maryna Polyakova, Nick Fehertoi, Wendy D’Andrea, Leroy Lowe, Georg Northoff (2020) ‘Neuroimaging the Consciousness of Self: Review, and Conceptual-Methodological Framework’, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Pergamon, 112, pp. 164–212. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.023.

20. Rose-Clarke, K., Rose-Clarke, Kelly; Gurung, Dristy; Brooke-Sumner, Carrie; Burgess, Rochelle; Burns, Jonathan; Kakuma, Ritsuko; Kusi-Mensah, Kwabena; Ladrido-Ignacio, Lourdes; Maulik, Pallab K.; Roberts, Tessa; Walker, Ian F.; Williams, Shehan; Yaro, Peter; Thornicroft, Graham; Lund, Crick (2020) ‘Rethinking research on the social determinants of global mental health’, The Lancet Psychiatry. Elsevier Ltd, pp. 659–662. doi: 10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30134-6.

Sundar Gnanavel, Pawan Sharma, Antonin Sebela, Teresa Gomez Alemany, Jane Pei-Chen Chang, Mauro Victor de Medeiros Filho, Kwabena Kusi-Mensah, Fransiska Kaligis, Hidekazu Kato, Huu Kim Le, Kana Morimoto, Dmytro Martsenkovskyi, Darpan Kaur Mohinder Singh, Aditya Pawar, Asilay Seker, Napat Sittanomai, Sifat-e Syed, Utkarsh Karki, Arpit Parmar, Marcus Tan (2020) ‘Child and adolescent psychiatry training curriculum: a global trainee’s perspective’, BJPsych International. Cambridge University Press, pp. 1–3. doi: 10.1192/bji.2020.8.

Natala N, Owusu-Antwi R, Donnir G, Kusi-Mensah K, Burns H, Mohiuddin S, Fluent T, Riba M, Dalack G (2018). Building Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Expertise in Ghana Through Training and Knowledge Dissemination: a Review of the Initial Collaboration Stages, Opportunities, and Challenges. Current Psychiatry Reports 20 (11):105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-018-0959-y: