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Cornelia Betsch, Professor of Health Communication and Director of the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the University of Erfurt, has been appointed to the German Ethics Council by Bundestag President Bärbel Bas.

Mirjam Jenny, Jule Schmitz and Cornelia Betsch are co-authors of an article that has now appeared in the book "Jetzt oder nie: Nachhaltigkeit im Gesundheitswesen" ("Now or Never: Sustainability in Healthcare").

On November 19, 2022, students of the master's program met with alumni, teachers and friends of the professorship for health communication. The "2nd GeKo Reunion" provided the perfect setting for getting to know each other, networking and exchanging…

How can climate protection measures be planned from a human perspective and effectively communicated? Dr. Mirjam Jenny and Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch (Chair of Health Communication) answer this question in an article entitled "Human behavior and…

The 87th ZEIT Forum Wissenschaft will take place on November 23, 2022 at 7 pm at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). On stage, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch, Prof. Dr. Alena Buyx and Health Minister Prof. Dr. Karl Lauterbach…

Since the first vaccinations against COVID-19, the public discourse on the topic has clearly intensified. Against this background, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Betsch, Dr. Philipp Sprengholz and Dr. Lars Korn together with scientists from the Universities of…

Antibiotics are an important resource for our health - the increasing development of bacterial resistance poses an ever greater threat to our health. It is therefore important to research the factors that contribute to the sensible and economical use…

Behavioral research must be reliable and locally and culturally grounded. For many years, psychological research was limited to studies from so-called WEIRD societies (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) and yet generalized to people…

The congress of the German Society for Psychology (DGPs) took place in mid-September 2022. At the largest scientific psychology congress in the German-speaking world, scientists from the health communication team also present current results from…

On September 9th, 2022, Sarah Eitze successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Sequelae of vaccine preventable diseases - increasing knowledge, risk perception and the intention to vaccinate" (supervised by Prof. Cornelia Betsch) at the Faculty…