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Michael Pickles

ResearcherUniversity of Manitoba

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Michael Pickles

Researcher

Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2024.
Principal investigator on 2 research grants (2 CIHR), most recently in 2021.

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Research

Conflict Hcv Hiv Military Stbbi Ukraine Crc

Latest papers

Exploratory analysis of the potential impact of violence on HIV among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya: a mathematical modelling study.
BMC medicine · 2024 · first author
Exploring the impact of military conflict on sex work in Ukraine: Women's experiences of economic burden.
Global public health · 2023
Awareness and Utilization of HIV Testing and Prevention Services Among Female Sex Workers in Dnipro, Ukraine: Implications for Prevention Program Strengthening From the Dynamics Study.
Frontiers in reproductive health · 2022

All 12 publications

Latest funding

An exploratory investigation into the unmet STBBI prevention and treatment needs of military personnel throughout a protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine using complementary epidemiological, phylogenetic and mathematical modelling approaches
CIHR · 2021 · Principal investigator
$200,000
Examining HIV and HCV risk and prevalence during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine: a planning meeting to design and implement a bio-behavioural survey among military personnel
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
$19,610
CRC Tier 2
CIHR · 2016 · Nominated PI
$500,000

All 6 grants and awards

12 publications.

Exploratory analysis of the potential impact of violence on HIV among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya: a mathematical modelling study.

Pickles M, Mountain E, Bhattacharjee P, Kioko J, Musimbi J, Musyoki H, Gichangi P, Stannah J, Maheu-Giroux M, Becker M, Boily MC

BMC medicine2024First author

DOI: 10.1186/s12916-024-03670-y PMID: 39407271

Exploring the impact of military conflict on sex work in Ukraine: Women's experiences of economic burden.

Lazarus L, Herpai N, Pavlova D, Murney MA, Balakireva O, Tarasova T, McClarty L, Pickles M, Mishra S, Forget E, Becker M, Lorway R, Dynamics Study Team

Global public health2023

DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2022.2092187 PMID: 35760779

Awareness and Utilization of HIV Testing and Prevention Services Among Female Sex Workers in Dnipro, Ukraine: Implications for Prevention Program Strengthening From the Dynamics Study.

Derksen J, Pavlova D, McClarty LM, Balakireva O, Herpai N, Lazarus L, Tennakoon A, Tarasova T, Lorway R, Pickles M, Mishra S, Shaw SY, Becker ML

Frontiers in reproductive health2022

DOI: 10.3389/frph.2022.879191 PMID: 36303675

Spatial modeling of individual-level infectious disease transmission: Tuberculosis data in Manitoba, Canada.

Amiri L, Torabi M, Deardon R, Pickles M

Statistics in medicine2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/sim.8863 PMID: 33469942

Prevalence and patterns of gender-based violence across adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya.

Bhattacharjee P, Ma H, Musyoki H, Cheuk E, Isac S, Njiraini M, Gichangi P, Mishra S, Becker M, Pickles M

BMC women's health2020Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12905-020-01081-8 PMID: 33046045

Transitions: Novel Study Methods to Understand Early HIV Risk Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Mombasa, Kenya, and Dnipro, Ukraine.

Cheuk E, Mishra S, Balakireva O, Musyoki H, Isac S, Pavlova D, Bhattacharjee P, Lorway R, Pickles M, Ma H, Gichangi P, Sandstrom P, McKinnon LR, Lazarus L, Moses S, Blanchard J, Becker M

Frontiers in reproductive health2020

DOI: 10.3389/frph.2020.00007 PMID: 36304700

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Becker ML, Bhattacharjee P, Blanchard JF, Cheuk E, Isac S, Musyoki HK, Gichangi P, Aral S, Pickles M, Sandstrom P, Ma H, Mishra S

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)2019

DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000002102 PMID: 31295175

Assessing the influence of conflict on the dynamics of sex work and the HIV and HCV epidemics in Ukraine: protocol for an observational, ethnographic, and mathematical modeling study.

Becker M, Balakireva O, Pavlova D, Isac S, Cheuk E, Roberts E, Forget E, Ma H, Lazarus L, Sandstrom P, Blanchard J, Mishra S, Lorway R, Pickles M, Dynamics Study Team

BMC international health and human rights2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1186/s12914-019-0201-y PMID: 31109323

Informing HIV Prevention Programs for Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Modified Approach to Programmatic Mapping and Key Population Size Estimation.

Cheuk E, Isac S, Musyoki H, Pickles M, Bhattacharjee P, Gichangi P, Lorway R, Mishra S, Blanchard J, Becker M

JMIR public health and surveillance2019

DOI: 10.2196/11196 PMID: 30932868

Vulnerabilities at First Sex and Their Association With Lifetime Gender-Based Violence and HIV Prevalence Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Engaged in Sex Work, Transactional Sex, and Casual Sex in Kenya.

Becker ML, Bhattacharjee P, Blanchard JF, Cheuk E, Isac S, Musyoki HK, Gichangi P, Aral S, Pickles M, Sandstrom P, Ma H, Mishra S

Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999)2018

DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000001826 PMID: 30113403

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Michael Pickles

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Exploratory analysis of the potential impact of violence on HIV among female sex workers in Mombasa, Kenya: a mathematical modelling study.

Exploring the impact of military conflict on sex work in Ukraine: Women's experiences of economic burden.

Awareness and Utilization of HIV Testing and Prevention Services Among Female Sex Workers in Dnipro, Ukraine: Implications for Prevention Program Strengthening From the Dynamics Study.

Spatial modeling of individual-level infectious disease transmission: Tuberculosis data in Manitoba, Canada.

Prevalence and patterns of gender-based violence across adolescent girls and young women in Mombasa, Kenya.

Transitions: Novel Study Methods to Understand Early HIV Risk Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Mombasa, Kenya, and Dnipro, Ukraine.

Reply.

Assessing the influence of conflict on the dynamics of sex work and the HIV and HCV epidemics in Ukraine: protocol for an observational, ethnographic, and mathematical modeling study.

Informing HIV Prevention Programs for Adolescent Girls and Young Women: A Modified Approach to Programmatic Mapping and Key Population Size Estimation.

Vulnerabilities at First Sex and Their Association With Lifetime Gender-Based Violence and HIV Prevalence Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women Engaged in Sex Work, Transactional Sex, and Casual Sex in Kenya.

An exploratory investigation into the unmet STBBI prevention and treatment needs of military personnel throughout a protracted conflict in eastern Ukraine using complementary epidemiological, phylogenetic and mathematical modelling approaches

Examining HIV and HCV risk and prevalence during the conflict in Eastern Ukraine: a planning meeting to design and implement a bio-behavioural survey among military personnel

CRC Tier 2

The impact of political conflict on the dynamics of sex work and the HIV/STI and HCV epidemic in Ukraine

Mathematical Modeling and Epidemiology to inform HIV Program Science

Estimating female sex workers' early HIV risk and the implications for HIV epidemic control: A multi-country observational and mathematical modeling study

Frequent collaborators

Sharmistha Mishra

Parinita Bhattacharjee

Marissa Becker

Paul Sandstrom

Lisa Lazarus

James Blanchard

Robert Lorway

Sharmistha Mishra

Stephen Moses

Michel Alary

Leigh McClarty

Stefan Baral

Mahmoud Torabi

Mathieu Maheu-Giroux