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1.    Karikari, A., Gyedu, A., Yankson, I. K., Amedzake, D., Agyei-Baffour, P., Edusei, A., Donkor, P., & Mock, C. (2025). Nurses' knowledge on trauma and emergency care and associated factors in Ghanaian district hospitals. African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 15, 100876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2025.04.004

2.    Yankson, I. K., Okyere, S., Wireko-Manu, F., Dugan, E., Ampomah, A., Acquah, E., Yeboah, E., Okyere, P., Yalley, A., Asenso-Gyambibi, D., Donkor, P., Mock, C., & Afukaar, F. (2024). Assessment of particulate matter concentrations and air quality index during road construction-related activities in Ghana. Discover Environment, 2. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44274-024-00172-9 
3.    Oduro, W., Von-Kiti, E., Animpong, M., Ampomah Benefo, K., Boafo-Mensah, G., Dazugo, E., Yankson, I. K., Akon-Yamga, G., Issahaku, A., & Ofori-Amanfo, D. (2024). Production of sustainable fuel briquettes from the co-carbonization of sewage sludge derived from wastewater treatment and wood shavings as a sustainable solid fuel for heating energy. South African Journal of Chemical Engineering, 50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajce.2024.09.011 
4.    Yalley, A., Ahiatrogah, S., Moro, I., Gmagna, P., Yankson, I. K., Kafintu-Kwashie, A., & Nii-Trebi, N. (2024). Utility of extraction-free SARS-CoV-2 detection by RT-qPCR for COVID-19 testing in a resource-limited setting. Diseases, 12(9), 198. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases12090198 
5.    Yalley, A., Ocran, J., Cobbinah, J., Obodai, E., Yankson, I. K., Kafintu-Kwashie, A., Amegatcher, G., Anim-Baidoo, I., Nii-Trebi, N., & Prah, D. (2024). Advances in malaria diagnostic methods in resource-limited settings: A systematic review. Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 9(9), 190. https://doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed9090190 
6.    Asiedu, M., Opoku, D. A., Ayisi-Boateng, N. K., Osarfo, J., Sulemana, A., Mohammed, A., Amissah, J., Ashilevi, J., Mate-Kole, A., Opoku, F., Yankson, I. K., & Nakua, E. (2024). Prevalence and associated factors of occupational injuries in an industrial city in Ghana. PLOS ONE, 19(3), e0301339. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0301339 
7.    Yankson, Isaac Kofi. (2023). Geochemical properties and industrial applications of kaolin deposits in the Central Region, Ghana. 
8.    Yankson, I. K., Karikari, A., Okyere, P., Adofo, K., Afukaar, F., Otupiri, E., Donkor, P., Owusu-Dabo, E., & Mock, C. (2023). Occupational injuries among road construction workers in Ghana: Burden, mechanism and severity. Postgraduate Medical Journal of Ghana, 12(2), 101–107. https://doi.org/10.60014/pmjg.v12i2.338 
9.    Kassim, A., Newton, S., Dormechele, W., Rahinatu, B., Yanbom, C., Yankson, I. K., & Otupiri, E. (2023). Effects of a community-level intervention on maternal health care utilization in a resource-poor setting of Northern Ghana. BMC Public Health, 23, Article 16376. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-16376-2 
10.    Awini, A., Opoku, D. A., Ayisi-Boateng, N. K., Osarfo, J., Sulemana, A., Yankson, I. K., Osei-Ampofo, M., Zackaria, A., & Newton, S. (2023). Prevalence and determinants of occupational injuries among emergency medical technicians in Northern Ghana. PLOS ONE, 18(4), e0284943. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284943 
11.    Yalley, A., Ahiatrogah, S., Yalley, A., Yankson, I. K., Nii-Trebi, N., & Yalley, A. (2023). Did Ghana do enough? A scientometric analysis of COVID-19 research output from Ghana within the African context. Diseases, 11(2), 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/diseases11020056
12.    Akwasi, J., & Yankson, I. K. (2023). Noise pollution assessment in the Kotokuraba Market, Cape Coast, Ghana. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4617336 
13.    Yankson, I. K., Okyere, P., Bapula, A., Otupiri, E., Afukaar, F., Donkor, P., Owusu-Dabo, E., & Mock, C. (2022). Hazard perceptions and self-reported non-injury occupational ailments among road construction workers in three Middle Zone Regions of Ghana. Ghana Journal of Science, 63(2), 71–84. https://doi.org/10.4314/gjs.v63i2.7
14.    Karikari, A., Agyei-Baffour, P., Mock, C., Edusei, K., Donkor, P., Yankson, I. K., & Merdiemah, G. (2022). Understanding the challenges and coping mechanisms adopted by nursing staff in managing critically ill patients at district hospitals in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 18, 100515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijans.2022.100515
15.    Okyere, P., Agyei-Baffour, P., Harris, M., Mock, C., Yankson, I. K., Donkor, P., & Owusu-Dabo, E. (2022). Seatbelt use among bus passengers in Ghana: Observed versus self-reported measures. International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, 29(1), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1080/17457300.2022.2056617
16.    Yankson, I. K., Nsiah-Achampong, N., Okyere, P., Afukaar, F., Otupiri, E., Donkor, P., Mock, C., & Owusu-Dabo, E. (2021). On-site personal protective equipment signage and use by road construction workers in Ghana: A comparative study of foreign- and locally-owned companies. BMC Public Health, 21, Article 2390. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12376-2
17.    Okyere, P., Agyei-Baffour, P., Harris, M., Mock, C., Donkor, P., Yankson, I. K., & Owusu-Dabo, E. (2021). Predictors of seat-belt use among bus passengers in Ghana: An application of the theory of planned behaviour and health belief model. Journal of Community Health, 46, Article 980. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-021-00980-7
18.    Okyere, P., Agyei-Baffour, P., Harris, M., Mock, C., Yankson, I. K., Donkor, P., & Owusu-Dabo, E. (2021). Barriers to the enforcement of mandatory seat belt laws in Ghana: An exploratory study. Health Promotion International, 36, daaa107. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa107
19.    Yankson, I. K., Nsiah-Achampong, N., Okyere, P., Afukaar, F., Otupiri, E., Donkor, P., Mock, C., & Owusu-Dabo, E. (2020). On-site personal protective equipment signage and use by road construction workers in Ghana: A comparative study of foreign- and locally-owned companies [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-63509/v1
20.    Yankson, I. K., Nsiah-Achampong, N., & Yeboah-Sarpong, A. (2020). Road use behaviour of urban primary school children in Ghana: Case study of Ablekuma South Education Circuit of Metropolitan Accra. Ghana Journal of Science, 61(1), 88–95. https://doi.org/10.4314/gjs.v61i1.7
21.    Nsiah-Achampong, N., Yankson, I. K., Agyemang, W., & Mingle, N. (2020). The Ghana Highway Code as a teaching and learning material. Ghana Journal of Science, 61(1), 101–108. https://doi.org/10.4314/gjs.v61i1.9
22.    Nsiah-Achampong, N., Mingle, N., & Yankson, I. K. (2018). Traffic communication as determinant of motorist behaviour. Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 26(4), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.9734/JESBS/2018/41503
23.    Stewart, B., Yankson, I. K., Afukaar, F., Híjar, M., Cuong, P., & Mock, C. (2016). Road traffic and other unintentional injuries among travelers to developing countries. Medical Clinics of North America, 100(2), 331–343. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2015.07.011
24.    Yankson, I. K., Browne, E., Tagbor, H., Donkor, P., Quansah, R., Asare, G., Mock, C., & Ebel, B. (2010). Reporting on road traffic injury: Content analysis of injuries and prevention opportunities in Ghanaian newspapers. Injury Prevention, 16(3), 194–197. https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.2009.024174

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Kumasi Injury is a research collaboration between Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi Ghana and University of Washington (UW), Seattle USA. Its agenda is to strengthen injury control research in Ghana and West Africa. The program is solidly grounded on a history of collaboration in injury research, which started in 1995 and has received funding through Fogarty International Center (FIC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA since 2006.

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