• Estudo PRICOV-19: Um estudo internacional sobre a qualidade dos cuidados e segurança dos doentes nos cuidados de saúde primários durante a pandemia COVID-19. (a decorrer). Liderado pela Universidade de Gent com colaboradores de 37 países. Financiado pela Rede de Investigação de Clínica Geral e a a Sociedade Europeia para a Qualidade e Segurança em Medicina Familiar.
• PrimaryCare@COVID-19: Uma plataforma digital de apoio a doentes crónicos e de consultas a pessoas com COVID-19 nos cuidados de saúde primários. (2020) Em colaboração com o Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical - Financiado pela FCT Research4COVID-19 Grant 228_596870812)

• Diagnostic Invasiveness and Psychosocial Consequences of False-Positive Mammography
• Do smartphone applications and activity trackers increase physical activity in adults? Systematic review, meta-analysis and metaregression
• Effectiveness of educational outreach visits compared with usual guideline dissemination to improve family physician prescribing—an 18-month open cluster-randomized trial
• Estimation of Overdiagnosis of Lung Cancer in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening: A Secondary Analysis of the Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial
• Translation and cultural adaptation of a prostate cancer screening decision aid: a qualitative study in Portugal

Marques P, Nunes M, Antunes M da L, Heleno B, Dias S. Factors associated with cervical cancer screening participation among migrant women in Europe: a scoping review. Int J Equity Health. 2020 Sep 11;19(1):160.

Malmqvist J, Siersma V, Thorsen H, Heleno B, Rasmussen JF, Brodersen J. Did psychosocial status, sociodemographics and smoking status affect non-attendance in control participants in the Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial? A nested observational study. BMJ Open. 2020 Feb;10(2):e030871.

Laranjo L, Ding D, Heleno B, Kocaballi B, Quiroz JC, Tong HL, et al. Do smartphone applications and activity trackers increase physical activity in adults? Systematic review, meta-analysis and metaregression. Br J Sports Med. 2020 Dec 21;bjsports-2020-102892.

Brodersen J, Voss T, Martiny F, Siersma V, Barratt A, Heleno B. Overdiagnosis of lung cancer with low-dose computed tomography screening: meta-analysis of the randomised clinical trials. Breathe (Sheff). 2020 Mar;16(1):200013.

Baptista S, Heleno B, Pinto M, Guimarães B, China D, Ramos JP, et al. Translation and cultural adaptation of a prostate cancer screening decision aid: a qualitative study in Portugal. BMJ Open. 2020 Mar 1;10(3):e034384.

Baptista S, Heleno B, Teixeira A, Taylor KL, Martins C. Comparison of explicit values clarification method (VCM), implicit VCM and no VCM decision aids for men considering prostate cancer screening: protocol of a randomized trial. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2020 Apr 29;20(1):78.

Viegas Dias C, Maria AR, Dias AC, Heleno B. Evidence‐based brunch to practise literature appraisal skills. Med Educ [Internet]. 2019 Mar 15 [cited 2019 Mar 19]; Available from: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/medu.13855

Silvério Rodrigues D, Sousa PF, Basílio N, Antunes A, Antunes M da L, Santos MI, Heleno B. Primary care physicians’ decision-making processes in the context of multimorbidity: protocol of a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative research. BMJ Open. 2019 Apr;9(4):e023832.

Baptista S, Heleno B, Pinto M, Teixeira A, Taylor KL, Martins C. Translation and cultural adaptation of the web and printed versions of a decision aid to support men’s prostate cancer screening choice: a protocol. BMJ Open. 2019 Oct;9(10):e028938.

Pinto D, Silva A, Heleno B, Rodrigues DS, Santos I, Caetano PA. Effect of European Medicines Agency’s restrictions on trimetazidine utilization in Portugal. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2018 Jul 10;

Pinto D, Silva A, Heleno B, Rodrigues DS, Santos I, Caetano PA. Effect of European Medicines Agency’s regulatory measures on nimesulide utilization in Portugal. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf [Internet]. 2018 Mar 30 [cited 2018 Apr 1]; Available from: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/pds.4424;

Pinto D, Heleno B, Rodrigues DS, Papoila AL, Santos I, Caetano PA. Effectiveness of educational outreach visits compared with usual guideline dissemination to improve family physician prescribing-an 18-month open cluster-randomized trial. Implement Sci. 2018 05;13(1):120.

Heleno B, Siersma V, Brodersen J. Estimation of Overdiagnosis of Lung Cancer in Low-Dose Computed Tomography Screening. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Aug 13;

Baptista S, Teles Sampaio E, Heleno B, Azevedo LF, Martins C. Web-Based Versus Usual Care and Other Formats of Decision Aids to Support Prostate Cancer Screening Decisions: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. J Med Internet Res. 2018 Jun 26;20(6):e228.

Heleno B, Siersma VD, Brodersen J. Diagnostic invasiveness and psychosocial consequences of false-positive mammography. Ann Fam Med. 2015 May;13(3):242-9. doi: 10.1370/afm.1762.

Pinto D, Heleno B, Rodrigues DS, Papoila AL, Santos I, Caetano PA. An open cluster-randomized, 18-month trial to compare the effectiveness of educational outreach visits with usual guideline dissemination to improve family physician prescribing. Implement Sci. 2014 Jan 15;9

Colaborações internacionais

• EGPRN - European General Practice Research Network 
• EQUIP - European Society for Quality and Safety in Family Practice 
• EURACT - European Academy of teachers in General Practice/ family medicine 
• EUROPREV - European Network for Prevention and Health Promotion in Family Medicine and General Practice 
• WONCA International Classification Committee 
• NIVEL (Netherlands institute for health services research). 
• The Research Unit for General Practice in Copenhagen. 
• The Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Ghent University

Colaborações nacionais

• NOVA Saude Migration and Health 
• NOVA Saude Integrated Care 
• Rede de Investigação em Educação Médica