Odette Wegwarth PhD

Odette Wegwarth was a senior fellow at the Harding Centre for Risk Literacy until August 2015. She received her PhD for investigating medical decision-making by oncologists, pathologists and cancer patients regarding pharmacodiagnostic tests designed to individualise the selection of appropriate chemotherapies. Currently, her research is exploring which statistical formats promote or limit the understanding of medical risk information. The findings are used for further training measures for doctors and the design of patient brochures.

Since 2015, she has been leading the FORECEE project at the Harding Centre, and since 2017 she has been a senior researcher in the research area of Adaptive Behaviour and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.