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Nickolas Zaller
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High Impact
Professor
Faculty Researcher
Health Behavior & Health Education, College of Public Health
43 h-index
193 pubs
5,824 cited
Research Areas
Biomedical Subjects
Biography and Research Information
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Nickolas Zaller's research interests are centered on public health, with a particular focus on health behaviors, disparities, and interventions. His work has extensively examined factors influencing health outcomes across diverse populations, including adolescents, young adults, and prisoners.
Recent publications demonstrate a strong engagement with critical public health issues such as COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, mask-wearing behaviors, and the impact of discrimination on health decisions. Zaller also investigates substance use disorders, including opioid use disorder and methamphetamine administration routes, and their linkages within the criminal justice system. His research extends to HIV prevention, specifically PrEP willingness and adherence among men who have sex with men in urban settings. He has also explored the intersection of rurality, excessive alcohol use, and COVID-19 case fatality rates.
Zaller collaborates with researchers from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, including George Pro, Melissa J. Zielinski, Mofan Gu, and Margaret M. Gorvine, with whom he has co-authored multiple publications. He maintains an active lab website and leads a research group, indicating a dynamic research environment. His scholarship metrics include an h-index of 43, 193 total publications, and 5,798 total citations, designating him as a highly cited researcher.
Metrics
- h-index: 43
- Publications: 193
- Citations: 5,824
Selected Publications
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Engagement and retention in HIV care in rural Southern U.S. using an All-Payer Claims Database (2025)
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A community network-driven COVID-19 testing and vaccination intervention for vulnerable populations in the Central United States: results from a Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations randomized controlled trial (2025)
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COVID-19 prevention behaviors are congruent within social networks of disenfranchised Hispanic and criminal legal involved community members (2025)
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The Prevalence and Associated Factors of HIV Self-Testing Among High-Risk Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: A Study Based on Bayesian Network Model (2025)
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The Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Study: Health Service Utilization and Jail Booking Outcomes of a Longitudinal Cohort (2025)
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Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness and Engagement Among MSM at High Risk of HIV Infection in China: A Multi-City Cross-Sectional Survey (2025)
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THE AGING RESEARCH IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE HEALTH (ARCH) NETWORK: AN OVER-ARCH-ING VIEW (2024)
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Linkage facilitation for opioid use disorder in criminal legal system contexts: a primer for researchers, clinicians, and legal practitioners (2024)
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Arkansas crisis stabilization unit guests: Baseline characteristics from a longitudinal cohort study. (2024)
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Geographic and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Methamphetamine Detoxification Services, United States, 2021 (2024)
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Primary Care Providers’ Experiences Treating Opioid Use Disorder Using Telehealth in the Height of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2024)
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HCV Medication Receipt Among Individuals With Methamphetamine, Opioid, and Alcohol Use Disorders in Arkansas, 2018–2022: A Long Road Ahead for HCV Elimination in the US South (2024)
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Feasibility of a Mobile Health Intervention for Providing a Continuum ofHIV Services for MSM: Pilot Study of the WeTest Program in 3 Cities inChina (2024)
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Drivers of Probation Revocation in Pulaski County, Arkansas (2023)
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Assessing Social Stigma Towards Drug Use Disorders Related to Opioids, Methamphetamines, Crack Cocaine and Alcohol (2023)
Grants & Funding
As listed on this researcher's institutional profile.
- Center for Research, Health and Society NIH Co-Investigator
- Regional Expansion of treatment for Addiction in Corrections via telehealth: Project REACH Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Principal Investigator
- Lifespan/Brown Criminal Justice Research Training Program on Substance Use and HIV NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse via Miriam Hospital Principal Investigator
- Mobile Health Intervention to Increase HIV Self Testing and Linkage to Services for High-Risk Men in China NIH Co-Principal Investigator
- Community network driven COVID-19 testing among most vulnerable populations in the Central United States NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse via University of Chicago Principal Investigator
- Brown Subcontract-China- Resubmission NIH/National Institutes of Health via Brown University Principal Investigator
- Patient Perspectives on Prescription Opioid Discontinuation: Understanding and Promoting Safe Transitions Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality via Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute Principal Investigator
- Linking Criminal Justice and Health Data: Challenges and Opportunities Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Principal Investigator
- The Southern Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Cohort Study: Longitudinal PrEP Initiation and Adherence among Parolees - Continuation Year 2020-2021 NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities via University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Principal Investigator
- Preparing to Implement PrEP Among High-Risk Men in China NIH/Nat. Inst. of Mental Health Principal Investigator
- Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative Ford Foundation via Duke University Principal Investigator
- Influences Upon the Decision to Adapt Office-Based Buprenorphine Treatment in Rural Settings: A Qualitative Study NIH Co-Investigator
- Advancing Health Disparities Research in Aging: The Aging Research in Criminal Justice & Health (ARCH) Network NIH Principal Investigator
- Preparing to Implement PrEP Among High-Risk Men in China NIH Principal Investigator
- Minority Populations Resource Core - Resubmission NIH/Nat. Inst. on Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism via Brown University Principal Investigator
- The HVIP+ Community Model: A Community Violence Prevention Program in a Southern State NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Principal Investigator
- Clinician and Patient Experiences with COVID-19 Induced Rapid Transitions to Telehealth for Opioid Use Disorder Treatment NIH Co-Principal Investigator
- Mobile Health Intervention to Increase HIV Self Testing and Linkage to Services for High-Risk Men in China NIH/Nat. Inst. of Mental Health via Brown University Principal Investigator
- Developing and Testing Innovative Care Pathways for Screening and Treatment of OUD/PTSD in Jails NIH Co-Principal Investigator
- COVID-19 testing and vaccination social network diffusion for diverse criminal legal involved communities NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities via University of Chicago Principal Investigator
- Arkansas Center for Health Disparities (ARCHD): An NIMHD COE NIH Co-Investigator
- Universal basic income and structural racism in the US South: Differences in health service utilization between older African American men with and without experiences of recent incarceration NIH/National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities Principal Investigator
- Substance Abuse Treatment and HIV/AIDS Services NIH Principal Investigator
- Leveraging Implementation Science to Increase Access to Trauma Treatment for Incarcerated Drug Users NIH Co-Investigator
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
George Pro
Arkansas Department of Health
10 shared publications
In database
- Multilevel modeling of county-level excessive alcohol use, rurality, and COVID-19 case fatality rates in the US
- Demographic and geographic shifts in the preferred route of methamphetamine administration among treatment cases in the US, 2010–2019
- Individual and Health Policy Factors Associated With Positive Heroin and Opioid Treatment Response: United States, 2018
- National trends in testing for hepatitis C virus in licensed opioid treatment programs: Differences by facility ownership and state medicaid expansion status
- Homeless Opioid Treatment Clients Transitioning to Dependent and Independent Housing: Differential Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
Mofan Gu
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
7 shared publications
In database
- A pilot study on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers in the US
- Barriers and facilitators to HIV care engagement: Recommendations from people with HIV in rural Arkansas
- Geographic and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Methamphetamine Detoxification Services, United States, 2021
- Drivers of Probation Revocation in Pulaski County, Arkansas
- Surveillance of COVID-19 outbreaks in prisons in the US South: The role of economic distress in the communities surrounding prison facilities
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Melissa J. Zielinski
University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
5 shared publications
In database
- A participant-randomized pilot hybrid II trial of group cognitive processing therapy for incarcerated persons with posttraumatic stress and substance use disorder symptoms: study protocol and rationale
- An Economic Analysis of the Cost of a Regional Crisis Stabilization Unit
- Recommendations for conducting longitudinal studies with people who are justice involved
- Arkansas crisis stabilization unit guests: Baseline characteristics from a longitudinal cohort study.
- The Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Study: Health Service Utilization and Jail Booking Outcomes of a Longitudinal Cohort
Peng Yang
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
4 shared publications
- PrEP Willingness and Adherence Self-Efficacy Among Men Who have Sex with Men with Recent Condomless Anal Sex in Urban China
- Willingness to use and intention to adhere to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) among men who have sex with men in Jiangsu Province, China
- Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness and Engagement Among MSM at High Risk of HIV Infection in China: A Multi-City Cross-Sectional Survey
- Recent Incarceration and Other Correlates of Psychological Distress Among African American and Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men
Brooke E. E. Montgomery
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
4 shared publications
In database
- COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Experiences of Discrimination Among Black Adults
- Demographic and geographic shifts in the preferred route of methamphetamine administration among treatment cases in the US, 2010–2019
- Homeless Opioid Treatment Clients Transitioning to Dependent and Independent Housing: Differential Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity
- Tailoring services in opioid treatment programs for patients involved in America’s criminal justice system: national associations and variation by state and Medicaid expansion status
Corey J. Hayes
Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System
4 shared publications
In database
- Demographic and geographic shifts in the preferred route of methamphetamine administration among treatment cases in the US, 2010–2019
- Individual and Health Policy Factors Associated With Positive Heroin and Opioid Treatment Response: United States, 2018
- Video-Based, Patient-Focused Opioid Education in the Perioperative Period Increases Self-Perceived Opioid-Related Knowledge: A Pilot Study
- HCV Medication Receipt Among Individuals With Methamphetamine, Opioid, and Alcohol Use Disorders in Arkansas, 2018–2022: A Long Road Ahead for HCV Elimination in the US South
Lisa Evans
4 shared publications
- An Economic Analysis of the Cost of a Regional Crisis Stabilization Unit
- Recommendations for conducting longitudinal studies with people who are justice involved
- Arkansas crisis stabilization unit guests: Baseline characteristics from a longitudinal cohort study.
- The Arkansas Crisis Stabilization Study: Health Service Utilization and Jail Booking Outcomes of a Longitudinal Cohort
Brie Williams
University of California, San Francisco (US)
4 shared publications
- Guest editorial
- Guest editorial
- 164 Characterizing Aging-Related Health in Women who have Criminal-Legal System Involvement (CHARMS)
- THE AGING RESEARCH IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE HEALTH (ARCH) NETWORK: AN OVER-ARCH-ING VIEW
Geoffrey M. Curran
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
3 shared publications
In database
- Opioid overdose counseling and prescribing of naloxone in rural community pharmacies: A pilot study
- A participant-randomized pilot hybrid II trial of group cognitive processing therapy for incarcerated persons with posttraumatic stress and substance use disorder symptoms: study protocol and rationale
- 148 A Feasibility Study for the Implementation of a Hospital-based Violence Intervention Program in the Rural South
Shufang Sun
Brown University (US)
3 shared publications
- PrEP Willingness and Adherence Self-Efficacy Among Men Who have Sex with Men with Recent Condomless Anal Sex in Urban China
- Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness and Engagement Among MSM at High Risk of HIV Infection in China: A Multi-City Cross-Sectional Survey
- Feasibility of a Mobile Health Intervention for Providing a Continuum ofHIV Services for MSM: Pilot Study of the WeTest Program in 3 Cities inChina
Don Operario
Emory University (US)
3 shared publications
- PrEP Willingness and Adherence Self-Efficacy Among Men Who have Sex with Men with Recent Condomless Anal Sex in Urban China
- Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Awareness and Engagement Among MSM at High Risk of HIV Infection in China: A Multi-City Cross-Sectional Survey
- Feasibility of a Mobile Health Intervention for Providing a Continuum ofHIV Services for MSM: Pilot Study of the WeTest Program in 3 Cities inChina
Clare C. Brown
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
3 shared publications
In database
- Multilevel modeling of county-level excessive alcohol use, rurality, and COVID-19 case fatality rates in the US
- Individual and Health Policy Factors Associated With Positive Heroin and Opioid Treatment Response: United States, 2018
- Geographic and Racial/Ethnic Differences in Access to Methamphetamine Detoxification Services, United States, 2021
Johnathan Goree
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
3 shared publications
In database
- Individual and Health Policy Factors Associated With Positive Heroin and Opioid Treatment Response: United States, 2018
- Federal and Statewide Coverage for Opioid-Sparing Chronic Pain Treatments.
- Video-Based, Patient-Focused Opioid Education in the Perioperative Period Increases Self-Perceived Opioid-Related Knowledge: A Pilot Study
Margaret M. Gorvine
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
3 shared publications
In database
- Providing substance use disorder treatment in correctional settings: knowledge gaps and proposed research priorities—overview and commentary
- Federal and Statewide Coverage for Opioid-Sparing Chronic Pain Treatments.
- Proposed development of the Criminal Justice Translation and Clinical Science (CJ-TRACS) network
Megha Ramaswamy
University of Kansas (US)
3 shared publications
- Introduction to the special issue: Health and social drivers in the criminal justice system
- Proposed development of the Criminal Justice Translation and Clinical Science (CJ-TRACS) network
- 164 Characterizing Aging-Related Health in Women who have Criminal-Legal System Involvement (CHARMS)
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