Associate Professor Flora Tzelepis’ research focuses on chronic disease prevention in priority populations, including the effectiveness of emerging behavioural interventions and strategies for increasing the uptake of under-utilised interventions.

Her PhD work explored the effectiveness of proactively-offered NSW Quitline telephone support on smoking cessation rates. More recently, Flora has led a large randomised trial investigating the long-term effectiveness of real-time video counselling for smoking cessation compared to other behavioural interventions among rural residents.

She has also led an NHMRC-funded cluster randomised trial that investigated the effectiveness of electronic feedback and referral to existing telephone and online support in reducing multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students. Flora’s research has also focussed on patient-centred care, including the development and psychometric evaluation of the Quality of Patient-Centered Cancer Care measure which has been translated and used by researchers internationally.

Associate Professor Tzelepis was awarded four consecutive fellowships from the Leukaemia Foundation of Australia/Cure Cancer Australia, National Heart Foundation, Cancer Institute NSW and NHMRC.

She has obtained >$7.1 million in competitive grant funding, including >$2.1 million as chief investigator. Flora has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers, supervised six PhD students to completion and been on NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies grant panels.