SIMONE J. SKEEN, MA


PhD candidate
Social, Behavioral, and Population Sciences, Tulane University
︎ 10-29-24

orcid.org/0000-0003-0631-4003

sskeen@tulane.edu // CV



My work maps the collisions of systems and psyches.


I model political and structural/systemic drivers of suicidality; linguistic signatures of subtle discrimination in mental healthcare; racialized income inequality, law enforcement violence, psychotraumatology, and immune function among people living with HIV; and platform governance and digital health autonomy movements.


Domain expertise


AI and societal impact - biobehavioral HIV prevention - computational social science - critical suicidology - HIV social epidemiology - mHealth - social psychiatry - structural and commercial determinants of health - violence and trauma

Methods


Applied ML-NLP, causal inference with text covariates - biodesign, human-centered design - clinical and field interviewing - finite mixture modeling, topic modeling - LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering - time series, event study estimation - reflexive thematic analysis


Publications


Lead


🔒️ = paywalled; 🗝️ = open access; 💾️ = download; 📎️ = request by email.


Skeen et al.
doi: 10.1080/19361653.2024.2360966
06-10-2024
Affirming healthcare encounters catalyze psychological empowerment to drive HIV testing among SGM youth in Florida
[🔒️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎] [ 📎️ .pdf authors’ postprint ]
Published in:  J LGBT Youth
Skeen et al.
doi: 10.1080/13691058.2024.2302054
01-24-2024
The intersectional social patterning of early-COVID-era digital intimacies among transgender and gender-diverse young adults: effects on peri-pandemic sexual decision-making
[🔒️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎] [ 📎️ .pdf NLM postprint ]
Published in:  Cult Health Sex

Skeen et al.
doi: 10.2196/47151
03-14-2023

A trauma-informed, geospatially aware, just-in-time adaptive mHealth intervention to support effective coping skills among people living with HIV in New Orleans: development and protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
[🗝️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎
Published in:  JMIR Res Protoc

Skeen et al.
doi: 10.1016/j.pcl.2022.04.006
08-11-2022
Synthesizing adaptive digital bioethics to guide the use of interactive communication technologies in adolescent behavioral medicine: a systematic configurative review
[ 🔒️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎] [ 📎️ .pdf authors’ postprint ]
Published in:  Pediatr Clin North Am

Skeen et al.
doi: 10.21037/mhealth-22-10
07-20-2022
mHealth for transgender and gender-expansive youth: an update on COVID, venture capital, and the cultural in/congruence of revenue-driven sustainability models
[🗝️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎
Published in: mHealth

Skeen et al.
doi: 10.2196/37350
02-16-2022
Integrating natural language processing and interpretive thematic analyses to gain human-centered design insights on HIV mobile health: proof-of-concept analysis
[🗝️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎
Published in: JMIR Hum Factors

Skeen et al.
doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03314-9
05-28-2021
Heterosexual cisgender men partnered with transgender women exhibit higher HIV/STI sexual risk than their gay, bisexual, and queer counterparts: findings from a U.S.-based convenience sample recruited online
[🔒️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎] [💾️ .pdf NLM postprint ︎︎︎]
Published in:  AIDS Behav


Skeen et al.
doi: 10.21037/mhealth-20-60
04-20-2021
mHealth for transgender and gender-expansive youth: harnessing gender-affirmative cross-disciplinary innovations to advance HIV prevention and care interventions
[🗝️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎]
Published in: mHealth


Co-authored


Gasik et al.
doi:  10.1007/s10461-024-04527-4
10-28-2024
Using geographic ecological momentary assessment to explore spatial environment influences on wellbeing in people with HIV
[🗝️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎]
Published in: AIDS Behav
Reback et al.
doi: 10.1007/s10461-024-04513-w
09-20-2024
Technology-based interventions, with a stepped care approach, for reducing sexual risk behaviors and increasing PrEP initiation among transgender and gender expansive youth and young adults
[🗝️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎]
Published in: AIDS Behav

Gasik et al.
doi: 10.1007/s10461-024-04368-1
06-22-2024
The impact of childhood adversity on life course alcohol use patterns and health status among people living with HIV
[🗝️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎]
Published in:  AIDS Behav

Starks et al.
doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03467-7
09-19-2021
Effectiveness of a combined motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral intervention to reduce substance use and improve HIV-related immune functioning
[🔒️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎] [💾️.pdf NLM postprint ︎︎︎]
Published in: AIDS Behav
Starks et al.
doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1904501
03-22-2021
The importance of domain-specific self-efficacy assessment for substance use and HIV care continuum outcomes among adults in an urban HIV clinic network
[🔒️ .html publisher’s version ︎︎︎] [💾️.pdf NLM postprint ︎︎︎]
Published in: AIDS Care

Symposia


Skeen (chair)
Abstract citation ID: kaae014.0783
03-15-2024

Embodying oppression: urban stress as structural pathogenesis among people living with HIV in the Gulf South
[🗝️ .html proceedings ︎︎︎]
Presented at:  SBM 2024


Preprints


Skeen et al.
doi: 10.31219/osf.io/pa93y
03-25-2024
‘What destroys a person when that person appears to be destroying himself?’ Intrapolitical discourses on r/SuicideWatch
[💾️ .pdf authors’ preprint ︎︎︎]
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