Cornelia Betsch

Since 2022 Director of the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the University of Erfurt
Since 2021 Head of Working Group Health Communication at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg
2017–2021 Heisenberg Professor for Health Communication at the University of Erfurt
2013 Habilitation at the University of Erfurt
2006 Doctorate at the University of Heidelberg

Since 2024 Member of the German Ethics Council
Since 2023 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre of Planetary Health Policy
2022–2024 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Museum of Natural History Berlin
2022–2024 Member of the Technical Advisory Group on Behavioural and Cultural Insights for Health of WHO/Europe
Since 2015 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Science Media Center Germany

Sprengholz, P.; Henkel, L.; Böhm, R.; Betsch, C. (2023): Historical narratives about the COVID-19 pandemic are motivationally biased. Nature, 623 (7987), 588–593. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06674-5
Betsch, C.; Korn, L.; Sprengholz, P.; Felgendreff, L.; Eitze, S.; Schmid, P.; Böhm, R. (2020): Social and behavioral consequences of mask policies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117 (36), 21851–21853. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2011674117
Korn, L.; Böhm, R.; Meier, N.W.; Betsch, C. (2020): Vaccination as a social contract. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 (26) 14890–14899. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1919666117
Omer, S. B.; Betsch, C.; Leask, J. (2019): Mandate vaccination with care. Nature, 571 (7766), 469–472. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-02232-0
Schmid, P.; Betsch, C. (2019): Effective strategies for rebutting science denialism in public discussions. Nature Human Behaviour, 3 (9), 931–939. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-019-0632-4
Betsch, C.; Böhm, R.; Korn, L.; Holtmann, C. (2017): On the benefits of explaining herd immunity in vaccine advocacy. Nature Human Behaviour, 1 (3), 0056. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-017-0056

Focus of the Commitment in the German Ethics Council