Hellen Temme

Background

Hellen Temme is a doctoral student in health communication with a special interest in planetary health, particularly the processes and challenges of climate change communication. She received her master's degree (M.Sc.) in Epidemiology in 2022 at the University of Bremen, after completing her B.Sc. in Health Communication in Bielefeld in 2020. Her dissertation project focuses on qualitative and quantitative analyses of factors influencing the willingness to protect the climate on an individual, societal and political level.

Hellen Temme has been working in Cornelia Betsch's Health Communication Research Group at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg since 2022. She works on the Planetary Health Action Survey (PACE) project.

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career    

• 2022 – present     PhD candidate at the Professorship of Health Communication, University of Erfurt
• 2020 – 2022          Master of Science in Epidemiology, University of Bremen
• 2017 – 2020          Bachelor of Science in Health Communication, University of Bielefeld

Employment

• 2024 – present      University of Bamberg, Research Associate (25%) at the Junior Professorship for Health Psychology
• 2022 – present      Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg, Research Associate (65%) in the Health Communication working group
• 2022                       Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg, Research Assistant in the Health Communication working Group
• 2021-2022             Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology (BIPS), Master Student in the department of Clinical Epidemiology

Publications

• Tiede, K. E., Temme, H., Lehrer, L., & Betsch, C. (2025). Enhancing perceived effectiveness of climate policy to boost public acceptance. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m8a5u_v1
• Temme, H., Jenny, M. A., Geiger, M., Lehrer, L., & Betsch, C. (2024, September 11). The “Who” in Climate Change Communication: A Mixed Methods Study on Climate Communicators and Trust. PsyArXiv Prepints. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/t3n9u
• Lehrer, L., Geiger, M., Sprengholz, Ph., Jenny, M. A., Temme, H., Shamsrizi, P., Eitze, S. & Betsch, C. (2023, September 17). Study Protocol of the Planetary Health Action Survey PACE – A serial cross-sectional survey to assess the general population’s readiness to act against the climate crisis in Germany. PsyArXiv. doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jcwv7.
• Lehrer, L., Hellmann, L., Temme, H., Otten, L. Hübenthal, J., Betsch, C. (2023). Kommunikation zu Klimawandel und Gesundheit für spezifische Zielgruppen. Journal of Health Monitoring, 8(S6), 39-60. https://doi.org/10.25646/11770
• Lehrer, L., Hellmann, L., Temme, H., Otten, L., Hübenthal, J., Geiger, M., Jenny, M. A., & Betsch, C. (2023). Communicating climate change and health to specific target groups. Journal of health monitoring, 8(Suppl 6), 36–56. https://doi.org/10.25646/11773
• Reinold, J., Kollhorst, B., Temme, H. L., Wentzell, N., & Haug, U. (2023). Use of Acitretin Among Girls and Women of Childbearing Age and Occurrence of Acitretin-Exposed Pregnancies in Germany. Clinical drug investigation, 43(11), 865–872. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40261-023-01314-2