Projects (selection)

• Development and evaluation of a training program for general practitioners to implement evidence-based brief tobacco cessation advice in routine care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (principal investigator, 2017 – present)
• The German Study on Tobacco Use (DEBRA): a bi-monthly national household survey of smoking behaviour and cessation (principal investigator, 2015 – present)
• Tobacco cessation using cytisine and brief behavioural support within TB programmes: an effectiveness-implementation hybrid study (co-investigator, 2015 – present)
• Development and evaluation of the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool: a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary and hospital care (co-investigator, 2012 – 2016)
• Understanding why smokers with COPD continue to smoke and underutilise smoking cessation treatments available in primary care: a case-cohort study (principal investigator, 2012 – 2015)
• Effectiveness of intensive practice nurse counselling versus brief general practitioner advice, both combined with varenicline, for smoking cessation: a randomised pragmatic trial in primary care (principal investigator, 2010 – 2015)
• Efficacy and safety of a novel nicotine vaccine for relapse prevention: a phase 2B, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (co-investigator, 2008 – 2014)