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This year's GeKo Reunion took place on 7 November 2025 in the research building "Weltbeziehungen" at the University of Erfurt. The event organised by the Master's degree programme in Health Communication offered current students, former students and…

Dr. Sabine Best, research associate at the professorship for Health Communication at the University of Erfurt, has received funding of around 235,000 euros from the Foundation for Innovation in University Teaching programme.

The Master's degree programme in Health Communication at the University of Erfurt is expanding its international network: an Erasmus cooperation with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Cremona (Italy) is now in place.

On 19 August, 2025, Frederike Taubert successfully defended her dissertation entitled "A double-edged sword - The role of physicians in spreading and countering vaccine-related conspiracy narratives." (supervisor: Prof Dr. Cornelia Betsch) at the…

Members and a master's student of the chair of Health Communication will attend the DGPuK Health Communication Conference, taking place from November 20th to 22nd, 2024 in Lucerne.

Students of the Master's in Health Communication ("GeKo" for short) at the University of Erfurt deal with various health topics and prepare them as evidence-based podcast episodes.

On October 18, 2024, students, alumni and lecturers from the Master's degree program Health Communication came together. The annual “GeKo Reunion” offers the opportunity to get to know each other, present project and final theses and discuss career…

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.

Cornelia Betsch, professor of Health Communication at the University of Erfurt, will be working as a visiting researcher at the Università Ca' Foscari Venezia for two weeks.