Leonie Otten

Background

Leonie Otten is a doctoral student in health communication with special interests in evidence-based health promotion and health decision making. She received her M.A. in Health Communication (Thesis: Pros and cons of evidence-based health information) and her B.A. in Psychology (Thesis: Humor in health communication: effects of a humorous explanation of herd immunity in pro-vaccination video interventions.) from the University of Erfurt. Her dissertation project focusses on the health of young adolescents during crises in the content of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic and health benefits of climate-friendly behavior, with focus on evidence-based health intervention design. 

Since 2024 Leonie Otten is research associate in the project FBDGVisual – Development and Evaluation of Visualisations of Food-related Nutritional Recommendations.

Areas of expertise:

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career

• 2020 – 2024.             PhD scholar, University of Erfurt
• 2020 – present           M.A. Psychology, University of Erfurt
• 2019 – present           Doctoral student in Health communication, University of Erfurt
• 2017-2019                   Master of Arts in Health Communication; Fast Track doctoral program, University of Erfurt
• 2013-2017                   Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of Erfurt

Employment

• 2024 – present          Research Associate in the FBDG Visual project, Universität Erfurt

Voluntary commitment at the University of Erfurt

• since 2021: Active commitment for the University Health Management (Universitäte Gesundheitsförderung)
  • Mental Health First Aid-Responder (MHFA Ersthelferin)
  • Health Ambassador ("Gesundheitsbotschafterin")
  • Telephone Helpline for (doctoral) students ("Sorgentelefon")
• since 2021: Member & Vice Chair of the doctoral students' representation (Promovierendenvertretung)

Memberships

• since 2021: Member of the network “Uni Erfurt Podcasters”
• since 2021: Member of the University of Erfurt working group “Psychische Gesundheit”
• since 2020: Member of the “Steuerkreis Gesundheit”, University of Erfurt
• since 2020: Member of the University of Erfurt network GENIA
• since 2020: Member of the Erfurter Open Science Initiative EFOSI
• since 2020: Member of the Center of Empirical Research in Economics and Behavioral Sciences CEREB
• since 2019: Member of the Hochschulgruppe CampusWelten (student health management)

Publications & Preprints

• Felgendreff, L., Siegers, R., Otten, L., & Betsch, C. (2024). Infographics on risks associated with COVID-19 and the willingness to get the AstraZeneca vaccine: Two randomized online experiments. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 529. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-024-18057-0
• 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
• Betsch, C., Schmid-Küpke, N. K., Otten, L., & von Hirschhausen, E. (2020). Increasing the willingness to participate in organ donation through humorous health communication: (Quasi-) experimental evidence. PloS One, 15(11), e0241208.

Talks

• Otten, L. & Betsch, C. (2021, August). Mental health and COVID-19: Factors associated with depression, anxiety, and stress among German university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Oral presentation at the 7^th International Conference on Public Health (ICOPH).
• Otten, L., Felgendreff, S., Betsch, C. (2021, August). Evidence-based vs. promoting vaccination information material: Does it matter for risk appraisals? Oral presentation at the 35^th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS).
• Küpke, N. K., Otten, L., Betsch, C. (2019, July). The Effect of Humorous Communication on the Perception of Organ Donation. Poster at the XVI European Congress of Psychology, Moscow.