Cornelia Betsch

Cornelia Betsch is Director of the Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour at the University of Erfurt and leads the Implementation Science working group at the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. Betsch's research addresses health decision making, vaccination behaviour, risk perception, and, more recently, the psychological dimensions of climate action and planetary health communication. This work spans topics including vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, antibiotic prescribing behaviour, and public acceptance of health and environmental policy. Betsch has also contributed to the development and validation of scales measuring climate change knowledge, climate anxiety, and readiness for climate action.