The University of Cyprus Team Behind EUCanScreen
Combining Expertise in Public Health, Epidemiology, Health Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Implementation Research
WP7 – Implementation Research to Improve the Existing Screening Programmes
As part of Cyprus’s EUCanScreen Spotlight Month, we are pleased to introduce the University of Cyprus (UCY) team contributing to this European Joint Action.
Within WP7 – Implementation, UCY leads Task 7.1 on implementing quality-assurance schemes and co-leads Task 7.2 on the classification and reporting of interval cancer rates.
The Team
The team combines expertise in public health, epidemiology, health psychology, clinical medicine and implementation research.
🔹 Anneza Yiallourou — Assistant Professor of Surgery, Academic Lead of the Breast Centre at Nicosia General Hospital and Lead of the UCY EUCanScreen Team
She leads the University of Cyprus team’s contribution to EUCanScreen and brings clinical expertise in breast cancer care and screening, helping connect research and quality-improvement activities with everyday clinical practice.
🔹 Georgios Nikolopoulos — Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health
He contributes expertise in epidemiology, research methodology and data analysis, supporting the evaluation and improvement of population-based cancer-screening programmes.
🔹 Theodora Fteropoulli — Senior Research Fellow and Health Psychologist
She contributes expertise in health psychology and person-centred research, with a particular focus on integrating patient-reported outcome and experience measures—PROMs and PREMs—into cancer-screening programmes.
🔹 Eleni Tzounaka — Medical Doctor and Researcher
She supports the team’s research activities, including evidence reviews, data collection and analysis, contributing a clinical and research perspective to the work.
Together, the UCY team is working with partners across Europe to strengthen quality assurance and support more evidence-based, effective and person-centred cancer screening.
Learn more about UCY’s work:
🔗 https://eucanscreen.eu/wp7/task1/
🔗 https://eucanscreen.eu/wp7/task2/
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s EU4HEALTH Programme under the Grant Agreement no 101162959