Rate My Professor Flora Tzelepis

Her research specializations include chronic disease prevention in priority populations, such as the effectiveness of emerging behavioural interventions and strategies to increase uptake of under-utilised services. Key projects encompass a large randomised trial on the long-term effectiveness of real-time video counselling for smoking cessation among rural residents and an NHMRC-funded cluster randomised trial evaluating electronic feedback and referral to telephone and online support for reducing multiple health risk behaviours among vocational education students. She developed and psychometrically evaluated the Quality of Patient-Centered Cancer Care measure, which has been translated and adopted internationally. Tzelepis has authored over 120 peer-reviewed research papers, garnering more than 4,200 citations. Notable publications include 'Proactive telephone counseling for smoking cessation: meta-analyses by recruitment channel and methodological quality' (Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2011), 'A randomised controlled trial of proactive telephone counselling on cold-called smokers’ cessation rates' (Tobacco Control, 2011), and the Cochrane review 'Real-time video counselling for smoking cessation' (2019). She has secured over $7.1 million in competitive grant funding as chief investigator on more than $2.1 million, supervised six PhD students to completion, and served on NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies grant panels. Tzelepis received four consecutive competitive fellowships: Leukaemia Foundation of Australia/Cure Cancer Australia, National Heart Foundation, Cancer Institute NSW Early Career, and NHMRC Career Development Fellowship.