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Samira Shirzaei Nichols
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Assistant professor
Also affiliated: University of Ghana (2026); Yale University (2026); University of Rochester (2026)
2 h-index
12 pubs
13 cited
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Samira Shirzaei Nichols' research focuses on public health issues, particularly concerning HIV prevention and risk behaviors among vulnerable populations. Her work investigates the intersection of substance use, economic precarity, and HIV risk within refugee communities, specifically African refugee male sex workers in Italy.
Her publications explore the impact of multilevel stigma on transgender women's access to HIV services in Ghana. Nichols also employs quantitative epidemiological studies to assess HIV and STI burden among African migrant male sex workers in Italy. Additionally, she has conducted research on forecasting COVID-19 cases in the United States using machine learning models.
Nichols collaborates with several researchers at the University of Central Arkansas, including Giovanni Zardini, Carolina Rigo, Saina Abolmaali, and Kelvin Aleakwe, with whom she shares multiple publications. She has an h-index of 2 and has published 11 total works.
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- h-index: 2
- Publications: 12
- Citations: 13
Positions
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Assistant professor 2021–presentUniversity of Central Arkansas Computer Information Systems and Analytics ORCID
Selected Publications
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“I went for a year without hormone treatment” experiences of access and continuity of gender-affirming care among transgender and nonbinary migrants in Italy (2026)
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"Stigma Is Still There": Healthcare Providers' Accounts of Multilevel Stigma Affecting Transgender Women's HIV Service Access in Ghana. BSGH 019 (2026)
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Substance Use and HIV Risk Among African Refugee and Migrant Sex Workers in Italy: A Mixed-Methods Study Informed by Syndemic Theory (2026)
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Economic Precarity Shapes Engagement in Sex Work and HIV-Related Behaviors Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Mixed-Methods Study (2026)
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Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study (2026)
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Client-Seeking Environments, Safety Management, and Survival Strategies Among African male and gender-diverse refugee/migrant workers in Northern Italy: A Theory of Planned Behavior Mixed-Methods Study. BSGH026 (2026)
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Economic precarity shapes engagement in sex work and HIV-related behaviors among African refugee male sex workers in Italy: A mixed-methods study (2026)
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A simulation-driven expert system for adaptive staff scheduling under non-Poisson, time-varying demand (2026)
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Intersecting Structural Vulnerabilities and Health Risks: A Quantitative Epidemiological Study of HIV and STI Burden Among African Migrant Male Sex Workers in Italy. BSGH 027 (2025)
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Substance Use and HIV Risk in a Syndemic Context: Vulnerabilities Among African Refugee Sex Workers in Italy (2025)
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Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy (2025)
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Flexible Staff Scheduling in Small Service Systems with Time-Varying Non-Poisson Demand to Achieve Time-Stable Performance Using Drl (2024)
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Enhancing COVID-19 Case Forecasting in the United States: A Comparative Analysis of ARIMA, SARIMA, and RNN Models with Grid Search Optimization (2024)
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Justice and Fairness in Academia: Are Women Underrepresented/Underpaid in Engineering and Science Fields? Comparing 2018 and 2021 Data (2023)
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Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning to Dynamic Staff Scheduling in a Service System with Nonstationary Arrival Process; a Case Study of Grocery Store (2022)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Gamji Rabiu Abu-Ba’are
University of Rochester
8 shared publications
In database
- Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy
- Substance Use and HIV Risk in a Syndemic Context: Vulnerabilities Among African Refugee Sex Workers in Italy
- Economic precarity shapes engagement in sex work and HIV-related behaviors among African refugee male sex workers in Italy: A mixed-methods study
- Intersecting Structural Vulnerabilities and Health Risks: A Quantitative Epidemiological Study of HIV and STI Burden Among African Migrant Male Sex Workers in Italy. BSGH 027
- Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study
Showing 5 of 8 shared publications
Osman Wumpini Shamrock
University of Rochester
7 shared publications
In database
- Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy
- Substance Use and HIV Risk in a Syndemic Context: Vulnerabilities Among African Refugee Sex Workers in Italy
- Intersecting Structural Vulnerabilities and Health Risks: A Quantitative Epidemiological Study of HIV and STI Burden Among African Migrant Male Sex Workers in Italy. BSGH 027
- Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study
- Economic Precarity Shapes Engagement in Sex Work and HIV-Related Behaviors Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Mixed-Methods Study
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Konstantinos Mykoniatis
Auburn University (US)
5 shared publications
- Society 5.0: a simulation optimisation study of dynamic scheduling for a grocery store
- Society 5.0: a simulation optimisation study of dynamic scheduling for a grocery store
- Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning to Dynamic Staff Scheduling in a Service System with Nonstationary Arrival Process; a Case Study of Grocery Store
- Flexible Staff Scheduling in Small Service Systems with Time-Varying Non-Poisson Demand to Achieve Time-Stable Performance Using Drl
- A simulation-driven expert system for adaptive staff scheduling under non-Poisson, time-varying demand
Marco Barracchia
University of Rochester Medicine (US)
4 shared publications
- Substance Use and HIV Risk in a Syndemic Context: Vulnerabilities Among African Refugee Sex Workers in Italy
- Economic precarity shapes engagement in sex work and HIV-related behaviors among African refugee male sex workers in Italy: A mixed-methods study
- Economic Precarity Shapes Engagement in Sex Work and HIV-Related Behaviors Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Mixed-Methods Study
- “I went for a year without hormone treatment” experiences of access and continuity of gender-affirming care among transgender and nonbinary migrants in Italy
Carolina Rigo
University of Verona
3 shared publications
In database
- Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy
- Substance Use and HIV Risk in a Syndemic Context: Vulnerabilities Among African Refugee Sex Workers in Italy
- Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study
Giovanni Zardini
University of Verona
3 shared publications
In database
- Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy
- Intersecting Structural Vulnerabilities and Health Risks: A Quantitative Epidemiological Study of HIV and STI Burden Among African Migrant Male Sex Workers in Italy. BSGH 027
- Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study
LaRon E. Nelson
Yale University (US)
3 shared publications
- Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy
- Substance Use and HIV Risk in a Syndemic Context: Vulnerabilities Among African Refugee Sex Workers in Italy
- Intersecting Structural Vulnerabilities and Health Risks: A Quantitative Epidemiological Study of HIV and STI Burden Among African Migrant Male Sex Workers in Italy. BSGH 027
Henry Delali Dakpui
University of Rochester
3 shared publications
In database
- Intersecting Structural Vulnerabilities and Health Risks: A Quantitative Epidemiological Study of HIV and STI Burden Among African Migrant Male Sex Workers in Italy. BSGH 027
- Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study
- "Stigma Is Still There": Healthcare Providers' Accounts of Multilevel Stigma Affecting Transgender Women's HIV Service Access in Ghana. BSGH 019
Anastasia Angelopoulou
Columbus State University (US)
2 shared publications
- Society 5.0: a simulation optimisation study of dynamic scheduling for a grocery store
- Society 5.0: a simulation optimisation study of dynamic scheduling for a grocery store
Saina Abolmaali
University of Rochester Medicine
2 shared publications
In database
- Substance Use and HIV Risk in a Syndemic Context: Vulnerabilities Among African Refugee Sex Workers in Italy
- Enhancing COVID-19 Case Forecasting in the United States: A Comparative Analysis of ARIMA, SARIMA, and RNN Models with Grid Search Optimization
Kelvin Aleakwe
University of Verona
2 shared publications
In database
- Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy
- Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study
Bawa Sahid Majeck
University of Verona
2 shared publications
In database
- Bridging Gaps in HIV Prevention: A Machine Learning-Enhanced Mixed-Methods Study on PrEP Awareness and Willingness Among Refugee Male Sex Workers from Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy
- Substance Use is Linked to Less Facility-Based but Greater Self-HIV Testing Willingness Among African Refugee Male Sex Workers in Italy: A Cross-Sectional Study
George Rudolph Kofi Agbemedu
University of Rochester (US)
2 shared publications
- "Stigma Is Still There": Healthcare Providers' Accounts of Multilevel Stigma Affecting Transgender Women's HIV Service Access in Ghana. BSGH 019
- Client-Seeking Environments, Safety Management, and Survival Strategies Among African male and gender-diverse refugee/migrant workers in Northern Italy: A Theory of Planned Behavior Mixed-Methods Study. BSGH026
Adams Al-Mardhiyyah
University of Central Arkansas
2 shared publications
In database
- "Stigma Is Still There": Healthcare Providers' Accounts of Multilevel Stigma Affecting Transgender Women's HIV Service Access in Ghana. BSGH 019
- Client-Seeking Environments, Safety Management, and Survival Strategies Among African male and gender-diverse refugee/migrant workers in Northern Italy: A Theory of Planned Behavior Mixed-Methods Study. BSGH026
Brigid Appiah Otoo
University of Central Arkansas
1 shared publication
In database
- Applying Deep Reinforcement Learning to Dynamic Staff Scheduling in a Service System with Nonstationary Arrival Process; a Case Study of Grocery Store
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