Elisabeth Sievert

Background

Elisabeth Sievert studied Psychology and Health Sciences in Hamburg and Maastricht. Her research focuses on individual and societal consequences of infectious diseases (e.g., AMR, post-acute infection syndromes). In her dissertation project, she develops communication strategies to reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics. More broadly, her interests include a variety of topics on the intersection of health psychology, behavioral economics, and global health.

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career

• 2022 – present         Doctoral Student in Psychology & Health Communication, University of Erfurt 
• 2019 – 2022              Master of Health Sciences (M.H.Sc.), Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2020 – 2021              Master of Science. (M.Sc.) in Psychology, Maastricht University
• 2015 – 2019              Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Psychology, University of Hamburg

Employment

• 2022 – present         University of Erfurt, research associate: research project “Health Games”, funded by the German Research Foundation.
• 2021 – 2022              Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, research associate
• 2019 – 2021              Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, student research assistant

Publications

• Sievert, E. D. C., Korn, L., Gross, R., Böhm, R., & Betsch, C. (2025). Recovery attributions and future expectations for antibiotics after precautionary prescribing. European Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaf146
• Gross, R., Sievert, E. D. C., Korn, L., Juanchich, M., Sirota, M., Betsch, C., & Böhm, R. (2025). Emphasizing the importance of prudent antibiotic use decreases unrealistic perceptions of new antibiotic discoveries. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlaf034
• Santana, A. P., Korn, L., Betsch, C., Krockow, E. M., Sievert, E. D. C., Gross, M., Pepper, M., & Böhm, R. (2024). Understanding and reducing inappropriate antibiotic use in the context of delayed prescriptions. Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, 43(3), 194–202. doi.org/10.1037/hea0001323
• Sievert, E. D. C., Korn, L., Gross, M., Santana, A. P., Böhm, R., & Betsch, C. (2024). Communicating diagnostic uncertainty reduces expectations of receiving antibiotics: Two online experiments with hypothetical patients. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being,1–20. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12536
• Elbing, U., Mayer, B., Büngener, K., Sievert, E.D.C., & Schäfer, I. (2022). Diagnostik und Therapie Posttraumatischer Belastungsstörungen bei Menschen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung. Trauma & Gewalt, 16(3), 232-248.
• Ruggeri, K., Panin, A., Vdovic, M., Većkalov, B., Abdul-Salaam, N., Achterberg, J., … Sievert, E.D.C., ...& Toscano, F. (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01392-w
• Lazić, A., Kalinova, K. N., Packer, J., Pae, R., Petrović, M. B., Popović, D., Sievert, E. D. C. & Stafford‐Johnson, N. (2021). Social nudges for vaccination: How communicating herd behaviour influences vaccination intentions. British Journal of Health Psychology, 26(4), 1219-1237. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjhp.12556
• Sievert, E. D. C., Schweizer, K., Barkmann, C., Fahrenkrug, S., & Becker-Hebly, I. (2021). Not social transition status, but peer relations and family functioning predict psychological functioning in a German clinical sample of children with Gender Dysphoria. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 26(1), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359104520964530
• Sievert, E. D. C. (2023). The benefit of considering others in individual health decisions. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2, 457. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00206-8
• Sirota, M., Habersaat, K. B., Betsch, C., Bonga, D. L., Borek, A., Buckel, A., ... , Sievert, E. D. C. , Theodoropoulou, A., Thorpe, A., Wanat, M., & Böhm, R. (2023). We must harness the power of social and behavioural science against the growing pandemic of antimicrobial resistance. Nature Human Behaviour, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01762-y