Dr Ashleigh Guillaumier is a Senior Research Fellow in Public Health at Flinders University. Her work focuses on improvements in policy and practices related to the treatment of tobacco smoking and vaping in vulnerable and high priority populations.
She completed a National Heart Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2022) at the University of Newcastle. Her fellowship project tested a low-cost, pragmatic and highly scalable online intervention aimed at helping people prevent stroke recurrence through health behaviour and lifestyle change. Prior to the fellowship she was a Research Associate (2014-2017) at the University of Newcastle (UON) managing three randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that focused on smoking cessation in vulnerable populations.
Dr Guillaumier completed a PhD at the University of Newcastle, in the Discipline of Behavioural Science in Relation to Medicine (2014) after obtaining a Bachelor of Psychology (1st Class Hons). She was awarded the 2015 Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australia national prize for PhD Excellence in Public Health recognising her outstanding body of work that made a valuable contribution to public health theory, knowledge, policy and practice.
Dr Guillaumier is an experienced triallist and has led the management and conduct of six research trials – three NHMRC RCTs (G1045840; G1600296; G1800272), one VicHealth-funded clinical trial, one University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Local Health District co-funded clinical trial, and one Hunter Cancer Research Alliance funded pilot trial. All trials involve multi-disciplinary teams with investigators from both UON and other Australian universities (e.g. UNSW, UQ, Monash, UOW, ANU) as well as partners from non-government organisations (e.g. Cancer Council NSW), industry (e.g. Quit Victoria, Quitline NSW, peak industry bodies such as NADA and ATODA) and government (e.g. local health district managers). Dr Guillaumier has built strong, positive and collaborative relationships across diverse colleagues and research partners.
