2025

| From #Dr00gtiktok to #harmreduction: Exploring Substance Use Hashtags on TikTok Layla Bouzoubaa*, Muqi Guo*, Afsaneh Razi, Shadi Rezapour.

arXiv.

2024

| Words Matter: Reducing Stigma in Online Conversations about Substance Use with Large Language Models Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani, Shadi Rezapour.

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP).
Euphoria’s Hidden Voices: Examining Emotional Resonance and Shared Substance Use Experience of Viewers on Reddit
Layla Bouzoubaa and Shadi Rezapour.
Proceedings of the Workshop on Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable at the 18th International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM ‘24) (p. 22).
Decoding the Narratives: Analyzing Personal Drug Experiences Shared on Reddit
Layla Bouzoubaa, Elham Aghakhani, Max Song, Minh Trinh, and Shadi Rezapour.
*The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (*ACL) Findings 2024
Not a Swiss Army Knife: Academics’ Perceptions of Trade-offs Around Generative Artificial Intelligence Use
Afsaneh Razi, Layla Bouzoubaa, Aria Pessianzadeh, John Seberger, and Shadi Rezapour.
arXiv.

2023

| Exploring the landscape of drug communities on reddit: A network study. Layla Bouzoubaa, Jordyn Young, and Shadi Rezapour

Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining  (ASONAM ‘23) (pp. 558-565).
Individual-Level Risk Prediction of Return to Use During Opioid Use Disorder Treatment.
Luo, S. X., Feaster, D. J., Liu, Y., Balise, R. R., Hu, M.-C., Bouzoubaa, L., Odom, G. J., Brandt, L., Pan, Y., Hser, Y.-I., VanVeldhuisen, P., Castillo, F., Calderon, A. R., Rotrosen, J., Saxon, A. J., Weiss, R. D., Wall, M., & Nunes, E. V.
JAMA Psychiatry. 2023
The Evolution of Substance Use Coverage in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Layla Bouzoubaa, Ramtin Ehsani, Preetha Chatterjee, and Shadi Rezapour
arXiv.

Prior Works (2018-2021)

Gauri, A., Messiah, S. E., Bouzoubaa, L. A., Moore, K. J., & Koru-Sengul, T. (2020). Cervical cancer sociodemographic and diagnostic disparities in Florida: A population-based study (1981–2013) by stage at presentation. Ethnicity & Health, 25(7), 995–1003. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2018.1471669
Bailey, Z., Balise, R., Bouzoubaa, L., & Kobetz, E. (2020). SCAN360: A Resource for a 360-Degree View of Cancer Prevention, Risk, and Survival. Preventing Chronic Disease, 17, 200263. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd17.200263
Elkbuli, A., Byrne, M. M., Zhao, W., Sutherland, M., McKenney, M., Godinez, Y., Dave, D. J., Bouzoubaa, L., & Koru-Sengul, T. (2020). Gender disparities in lung cancer survival from an enriched Florida population-based cancer registry. Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 60, 680–685. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2020.11.081
Pinheiro, P. S., Callahan, K. E., Koru-Sengul, T., Ransdell, J., Bouzoubaa, L., Brown, C. P., & Kobetz, E. (2019). Risk of Cancer Death Among White, Black, and Hispanic Populations in South Florida. Preventing Chronic Disease, 16, 180529. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180529
Saper, V. E., Chen, G., Deutsch, G. H., Guillerman, R. P., Birgmeier, J., Jagadeesh, K., Canna, S., Schulert, G., Deterding, R., Xu, J., Leung, A. N., Bouzoubaa, L., Abulaban, K., Baszis, K., Behrens, E. M., Birmingham, J., Casey, A., Cidon, M., Cron, R. Q., … Mellins, E. D. (2019). Emergent high fatality lung disease in systemic juvenile arthritis. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 78(12), 1722–1731. https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-216040
Picado, O., Baeker Bispo, J., Bouzoubaa, L., Balise, R. R., Lopes, G., & Kobetz, E. N. (2018). Cancer patterns and trends in Costa Rica: A population-based tumor registry study. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 36(15_suppl), e13605–e13605. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.e13605
Lopategui, D. M., Balise, R. R., Bouzoubaa, L. A., Wilson, S. K., & Kava, B. R. (2018). The Impact of Immediate Salvage Surgery on Corporeal Length Preservation in Patients Presenting with Penile Implant Infections. Journal of Urology, 200(1), 171–177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2018.01.082