Alicia Nobles

Title(s)	Assistant Professor, Medicine
School	Health Sciences
Address	9500 Gilman Drive #0507 La Jolla CA 92093
ORCID	0000-0003-0472-3671
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Biography

Education and Training

UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA	Postdoctoral Fellowship	01/2020	Public Health
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA	PhD	12/2018	Systems & Information Engineering
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA	MS	08/2014	Civil & Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA	BS	12/2007	Civil & Environmental Engineering

Overview

Websites

	Personal Website
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Research

Research Activities and Funding

Real-Time Population Mental Health Tracking During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program R01RG3783Nov 1, 2020 - Oct 31, 2021
Role: Principal Investigator

Rapid Examination of Collateral Threats to Population Behavioral Health during the COVID19 Pandemic
Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program R00RG2545Apr 21, 2020 - Oct 21, 2020
Role: Principal Investigator

Quantifying Treatment Help-Seeking Among Self-Identified Opioid Users on Social Media
NIH K25DA049944Apr 15, 2020 - Mar 31, 2025
Role: Principal Investigator

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Publications

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Characterizing Self-Reports of Self-Identified Patient Experiences with Methadone Maintenance Treatment on an Online Community during COVID-19. Subst Use Misuse. 2021 Sep 05; 1-7. Nobles AL, Johnson DC, Leas EC, Goodman-Meza D, Zúñiga ML, Ziedonis D, Strathdee SA, Ayers JW. PMID: 34486471.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
Monitoring HIV testing and pre-exposure prophylaxis information seeking by combining digital and traditional data. BMC Infect Dis. 2021 Feb 25; 21(1):215. Johnson DC, Nobles AL, Caputi TL, Liu M, Leas EC, Strathdee SA, Smith DM, Ayers JW. PMID: 33632140.

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Com Communicable Diseases
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Google shopping queries for vaping products, JUUL and IQOS during the E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak. Tob Control. 2021 Feb 19. Leas EC, Moy NH, Nobles AL, Ayers J, Zhu SH, Purushothaman V. PMID: 33608466.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
Suicide-Related Internet Searches During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US. JAMA Netw Open. 2021 01 04; 4(1):e2034261. Ayers JW, Poliak A, Johnson DC, Leas EC, Dredze M, Caputi T, Nobles AL. PMID: 33475749.

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Med Medicine (General)
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Internet Searches for Acute Anxiety During the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic. JAMA Intern Med. 2020 12 01; 180(12):1706-1707. Ayers JW, Leas EC, Johnson DC, Poliak A, Althouse BM, Dredze M, Nobles AL. PMID: 32832984.

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Int Internal Medicine
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Quantifying Public Interest in Police Reforms by Mining Internet Search Data Following George Floyd's Death. J Med Internet Res. 2020 10 21; 22(10):e22574. Ayers JW, Althouse BM, Poliak A, Leas EC, Nobles AL, Dredze M, Smith D. PMID: 33084578.

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Med Medical Informatics
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News coverage of the E-cigarette, or Vaping, product use Associated Lung Injury (EVALI) outbreak and internet searches for vaping cessation. Tob Control. 2021 09; 30(5):578-582. Leas EC, Nobles AL, Caputi TL, Dredze M, Zhu SH, Cohen JE, Ayers JW. PMID: 33051278.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
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Self-reported Cannabidiol (CBD) Use for Conditions With Proven Therapies. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 10 01; 3(10):e2020977. Leas EC, Hendrickson EM, Nobles AL, Todd R, Smith DM, Dredze M, Ayers JW. PMID: 33057645.

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Med Medicine (General)
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Patient crowdsourcing of dermatologic consults on a Reddit social media community. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2021 Jul; 85(1):226-227. Chu B, Fathy R, Nobles AL, Lipoff JB. PMID: 32777316.

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Der Dermatology
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#HIV: Alignment of HIV-Related Visual Content on Instagram with Public Health Priorities in the US. AIDS Behav. 2020 Jul; 24(7):2045-2053. Nobles AL, Leas EC, Latkin CA, Dredze M, Strathdee SA, Ayers JW. PMID: 31916098.

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Acq Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd Beh Behavioral Sciences
Translation:Humans PHPublic Health
Examining Peer-to-Peer and Patient-Provider Interactions on a Social Media Community Facilitating Ask the Doctor Services. Proc Int AAAI Conf Weblogs Soc Media. 2020 Jun; 14:464-475. Nobles AL, Leas EC, Dredze M, Ayers JW. PMID: 32724726.

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Automated image analysis of instagram posts: Implications for risk perception and communication in public health using a case study of #HIV. PLoS One. 2020; 15(5):e0231155. Nobles AL, Leas EC, Noar S, Dredze M, Latkin CA, Strathdee SA, Ayers JW. PMID: 32365124.

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Med Medicine (General)Sci Science
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Responses to addiction help-seeking from Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana, and Bixby intelligent virtual assistants. NPJ Digit Med. 2020; 3:11. Nobles AL, Leas EC, Caputi TL, Zhu SH, Strathdee SA, Ayers JW. PMID: 32025572.

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Requests for Diagnoses of Sexually Transmitted Diseases on a Social Media Platform. JAMA. 2019 11 05; 322(17):1712-1713. Nobles AL, Leas EC, Althouse BM, Dredze M, Longhurst CA, Smith DM, Ayers JW. PMID: 31688875.

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Med Medicine (General)
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Harnessing digital data and data science to achieve 90-90-90 goals to end the HIV epidemic. Curr Opin HIV AIDS. 2019 11; 14(6):481-485. Strathdee SA, Nobles AL, Ayers JW. PMID: 31449089.

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Acq Acquired Immunodeficiency Synd
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Trends in Internet Searches for Cannabidiol (CBD) in the United States. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 10 02; 2(10):e1913853. Leas EC, Nobles AL, Caputi TL, Dredze M, Smith DM, Ayers JW. PMID: 31642924.

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Med Medicine (General)
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What to do when tobacco advertisers exploit antitobacco social media campaigns to sell tobacco. Tob Control. 2020 03; 29(2):243-244. Leas EC, Prochaska JJ, Ayers J, Nobles AL, Henriksen L. PMID: 31249102.

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Sub Substance-Related Disorders
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Contraception. 2019 05; 99(5):293-295. Nobles AL, Dredze M, Ayers JW, Nobles AL, Dredze M, Ayers JW. PMID: 30878137.

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Rep Reproductive Medicine
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Media Trends for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 800-662-HELP Addiction Treatment Referral Services After a Celebrity Overdose. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Mar 01; 179(3):441-442. Ayers JW, Nobles AL, Dredze M. PMID: 30640378.

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Int Internal Medicine
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Internet Searches for Sexual Harassment and Assault, Reporting, and Training Since the #MeToo Movement. JAMA Intern Med. 2019 02 01; 179(2):258-259. Caputi TL, Nobles AL, Ayers JW. PMID: 30575847.

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Int Internal Medicine
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Health insurance literacy: A mixed methods study of college students. J Am Coll Health. 2019 07; 67(5):469-478. Nobles AL, Curtis BA, Ngo DA, Vardell E, Holstege CP. PMID: 29979956.

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Hea Health Services
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"Is this a STD? Please help!": Online Information Seeking for Sexually Transmitted Diseases on Reddit. Proc Int AAAI Conf Weblogs Soc Media. 2018 Jun; 2018:660-663. Nobles AL, Dreisbach CN, Keim-Malpass J, Barnes LE. PMID: 30984474.

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A Social Cognitive Theory-based Framework for Monitoring Medication Adherence Applied to Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer Survivors. IEEE EMBS Int Conf Biomed Health Inform. 2018 Mar; 2018:275-278. Boukhechba M, Baee S, Nobles AL, Gong J, Wells K, Barnes LE. PMID: 29862383.

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Identification of Imminent Suicide Risk Among Young Adults using Text Messages. Proc SIGCHI Conf Hum Factor Comput Syst. 2018 Apr; 2018. Nobles AL, Glenn JJ, Kowsari K, Teachman BA, Barnes LE. PMID: 30944915.

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