Page Daniel Dobbs, MS, PhD

Research Program: Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Faculty Rank: Associate Professor Campus: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College: College of Public Health Department: Health Behavior & Health Education

Cancer Research Interest

• Disease Site Focus: No Specific Disease Site, Thoracic/ Lung
• Research Focus Area: Prevention
• Type of Research: Population Sciences
• Research Keywords: tobacco control
• Research Interest Statement: I am currently the PI or Co-I on three projects: K01, an NSF grant (Co-I), and a grant from the Arkansas Attorney General's office (similar to an R21). As a part of my K01, I'm becoming an expert in tobacco control laws and learning how to leverage social media data to learn about and prevent the exposure to tobacco related content to those under the minimum legal sales age. For the NSF grant, we are training visual AI models to detect nicotine addiction displayed on social media in an effort to educate children, parents, and lawmakers about the risks of exposure to tobacco-related content on social media. Lastly, the AG grant uses a youth action participatory research approach that engages youth as equal researchers who explore messages disseminated about emerging tobacco products by social media influences in order to inform the future development of prevention messages for youth and young adults. Findings from this two-year study is intended to support an R01 application that will develop, implement, and evaluate a tobacco prevention campaign for rural youth using social media influencers.

Contact Information

• Email Address: PDDobbs@uams.edu

Recent Publications

• Sudduth Page A, Dobbs P, Niño M, [et al.]. The Social Determinants of Health in Place: A Future Families and Child Well-Being Study. Family & community health. 2025. PMID: 41430761.
• Richardson E, Dobbs PD, Bemis S, [et al.]. State of Menstrual Health Education in 2024: Content Analysis of US K-12 Public School Education Standards. The Journal of school health. 2025 95(11):962-969. PMID: 40798983.
• Dobbs P, McCormick C, Murthy D, [et al.]. Music festivals, exclusive concerts and reward programmes: nicotine pouch promotion on social media. Tobacco control. 2025. PMID: 41167816.
• Schisler ED, Dobbs PD, Davis R, [et al.]. The Adaptation and Validation of an Instrument Measuring Bystander Intention to Address Gym-Based Sexual Harassment: An Application of the Reasoned Action Approach. Journal of interpersonal violence. 2025:8862605251375387. PMID: 41048176.
• Page A, McCann R, Maness S, [et al., including Dobbs PD]. Beyond the First Trimester: Social Determinants of Delayed Prenatal Care at a Community Health Center Using the PRAPARE Tool. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 2025 12(4):2312-2319. PMID: 38935333.
• Dobbs PD, Soule EK, Mahoney M, [et al.]. Do-It-Yourself Flavored Capsule Cigarettes: Exploiting Potential Regulatory Loopholes?. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2025 27(6):1142-1146. PMID: 39475067.
• Clawson AH, Dobbs PD, Lasater K, [et al.]. The Prevention of Nicotine use in the State of Arkansas that has Geographic Tobacco use Disparities: the Perceived Prevention Needs and Realities of School Professionals. Journal of community health. 2025. PMID: 40186837.
• Dobbs PD, Schisler ED, McCormick C. #Discreetshipping: Selling E-cigarettes on TikTok. Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. 2025 27(4):748-752. PMID: 38778482.
• Olatunde OE, Richards D, Dobbs PD, [et al.]. Psychological Help-Seeking Among College Students: Applying the Multi-Theory Model of Health Behavior Change in Assessing Telehealth Use for Psychological Help-Seeking. American journal of lifestyle medicine. 2025 19(3):450-462. PMID: 40041308.
• Doherty EA, Gregory KA, Dobbs PD. E-cigarette flavor and device preferences among US pregnant women who smoke: A latent class analysis. Tobacco prevention & cessation. 2025 11. PMID: 40642760.
• Merreighn T, Veilleux JC, Schisler ED, [et al., including Dobbs PD]. The experiences of young adults attempting to quit e-cigarettes: A mixed-methods analysis. Tobacco prevention & cessation. 2025 11. PMID: 40503162.
• Bhagavathula AS, Dobbs PD. Online Interest in Elf Bar in the United States: Google Health Trends Analysis. Journal of medical Internet research. 2024 26:e50343. PMID: 39499924.
• Dobbs P, Kong G, Lovett K, Henriksen L. Tobacco control policies discussed on social media: a scoping review. Tobacco control. 2024. PMID: 39461851.
• Chadwick G, Dobbs PD, Gluesenkamp K, [et al.]. Components in tobacco-free school policies-A coding tool for assessment. Journal of American college health : J of ACH. 2024 72(7):2075-2082. PMID: 35930361.
• McCann R, Richardson E, Schisler ED, [et al., including Dobbs PD]. Cigarette and E-Cigarette Harm Perceptions During Pregnancy. Nursing research. 2024 73(4):286-293. PMID: 38598822.
• Dobbs PD, Kong G, Berman ML, Henriksen L. 'Cashing in' nicotine pouches for prizes. Tobacco control. 2024. PMID: 38879181.
• Chappa NVSR, Nguyen P, Le THN, [et al., including Dobbs PD]. HAtt-Flow: Hierarchical Attention-Flow Mechanism for Group-Activity Scene Graph Generation in Videos. Sensors (Basel, Switzerland). 2024 24(11). PMID: 38894164.
• Richardson EM, Schisler E, Dobbs PD. Patient-provider communication about cigarette and e-cigarette use during pregnancy: Adaptation and validation of frequency and quality of communication measures among a sample of pregnant patients. Tobacco prevention & cessation. 2024 10. PMID: 39377008.
• Luzius A, Merriweather M, Busch S, [et al., including Dobbs PD]. Social Risk of Pregnant Women at a Community Health Center: An Application of the PRAPARE Assessment Tool. Journal of immigrant and minority health. 2023 25(6):1254-1260. PMID: 37284968.
• Maness SB, Dobbs PD, Wright LS. Expansion of Programs and Schools Offering Dual Degrees in Master of Public Health and Master of Divinity: A Call to Action. Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974). 2023 138(6):853-855. PMID: 36461166.
• Dobbs PD, Schisler E, Colditz JB, Primack BA. Miscommunication about the US federal Tobacco 21 law: a content analysis of Twitter discussions. Tobacco control. 2023 32(6):696-700. PMID: 35173067.
• Dobbs PD, Boykin AA, Ezike N, [et al.]. Twitter Sentiment About the US Federal Tobacco 21 Law: Mixed Methods Analysis. JMIR formative research. 2023 7:e50346. PMID: 37651169.
• Dobbs PD, Chadwick G, Crosbie E, [et al.]. Preemption in State Tobacco Minimum Legal Sales Age Laws in the US, 2022: A Policy Analysis of State Statutes and Case Laws. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2023 20(11). PMID: 37297620.
• Johnson A, Dobbs PD, Coleman L, Maness S. Pregnancy-Specific Stress and Racial Discrimination Among U.S. Women. Maternal and child health journal. 2023 27(2):328-334. PMID: 36609938.
• Dobbs PD, Herrmann E, Vidal C, [et al.]. Erratum to "Factors that influence Puerto Rican's intention to get the COVID- 19 vaccine" [Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy 5C (2022) 100106]. Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy. 2022 8:100197. PMID: 36299641.
• Karki I, Dobbs PD, Larson D, Maness SB. Human papillomavirus (HPV) knowledge, beliefs, and vaccine uptake among United States and international college students. Journal of American college health : J of ACH. 2022 70(8):2483-2490. PMID: 33513057.
• Vidal C, Dobbs PD, Herrmann E, [et al.]. COVID-19 Risk Perceptions and Health Behaviors in Puerto Rico. The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene. 2022 107(2):278-283. PMID: 35895393.
• Luzius A, Dobbs PD, Hammig B, [et al.]. Using the PRAPARE Tool to Examine Those Tested and Testing Positive for COVID-19 at a Community Health Center. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities. 2022 9(4):1528-1535. PMID: 34156629.
• Baker W, Colditz JB, Dobbs PD, [et al.]. Classification of Twitter Vaping Discourse Using BERTweet: Comparative Deep Learning Study. JMIR medical informatics. 2022 10(7):e33678. PMID: 35862172.
• Ezike NC, Ames Boykin A, Dobbs PD, [et al.]. Exploring Factors That Predict Marketing of e-Cigarette Products on Twitter: Infodemiology Approach Using Time Series. JMIR infodemiology. 2022 2(2):e37412. PMID: 37113447.
• Marcantonio TL, Willis M, Dobbs P. Examining Women's Sexual Assault Victimization Experiences since Entering College via Two Behavioral Assessments. Journal of sex research. 2022 59(6):780-791. PMID: 34788182.
• Dobbs PD, Hodges EJ, Dunlap CM, Cheney MK. Potential risk factors for cigarette use among a sample of college JUUL users. Journal of American college health : J of ACH. 2022 70(5):1321-1325. PMID: 32877622.
• Dobbs PD, Song H, Dunlap C, Cheney MK. Harm perceptions, JUUL dependence, and other tobacco product use among young adults who use JUUL. Addictive behaviors. 2022 127:107210. PMID: 34959076.
• Dobbs PD, Herrmann E, Vidal C, [et al.]. Factors that influence Puerto Rican's intention to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy. 2022 5:100106. PMID: 35098204.
• Dobbs PD, Colditz JB, Shields S, [et al.]. Policy and Behavior: Comparisons between Twitter Discussions about the US Tobacco 21 Law and Other Age-Related Behaviors. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2022 19(5). PMID: 35270306.
• Narcisse MR, Shah SK, Felix HC, [et al., including Dobbs PD]. Association of psychological distress and current cigarette smoking among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander adults and compared to adults from other racial/ethnic groups: Data from the National Health Interview Survey, 2014. Preventive medicine reports. 2022 25:101660. PMID: 34950562. PMCID: PMC8671122.
• Dobbs PD, Branscum P, Cohn AM, Comiford AL. Pregnant Smokers' Intention to Switch From Cigarettes to E-Cigarettes: A Reasoned Action Approach. Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health. 2021 31(6):540-549. PMID: 34452825.
• Dobbs PD, Maness S, Coleman L, [et al.]. Gestational Women's Perceptions About the Harms of Cigarette and E-Cigarette Use During Pregnancy. Maternal and child health journal. 2021 25(8):1209-1220. PMID: 33190194.
• Newcombe KV, Dobbs PD, Oehlers JS, [et al.]. College Students' Reasons for Using JUULs. American journal of health promotion : AJHP. 2021 35(6):835-840. PMID: 33535769.
• Tamayo MC, Dobbs PD, Pincu Y. Family-Centered Interventions for Treatment and Prevention of Childhood Obesity in Hispanic Families: A Systematic Review. Journal of community health. 2021 46(3):635-643. PMID: 32734580.
• Dobbs PD, Chadwick G, Dunlap CM, [et al.]. Tobacco 21 Policies in the U.S.: The Importance of Local Control With Federal Policy. American journal of preventive medicine. 2021 60(5):639-647. PMID: 33602533.
• Bhochhibhoya S, Dobbs PD, Maness SB. Interventions using mHealth strategies to improve screening rates of cervical cancer: A scoping review. Preventive medicine. 2021 143:106387. PMID: 33383069.