Friederike Günther

Research Associate

Research Focus: Prevention and Rehabilitation

Email: guenther.friederike@mh-hannover.de

Higher education and professional training

10/2021 – 08/2025
M.Sc. in Public Health, Hannover Medical School
Title of Master’s thesis: The importance of communication in cross-sectoral collaboration at local authority level – A qualitative analysis of the perspectives of local authority coordination specialists in their collaboration with schools, using the CTC prevention system as an example

10/2020 – 06/2023
M.A. Accessible Communication, University of Hildesheim Foundation
Title of Master’s thesis: Strategies for accessible risk communication of health information, using the presentation of numerical ratios in written communication as an example

10/2017 – 10/2020
B.Sc. Applied Nursing Sciences, Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences
Title of Bachelor’s thesis: Promoting health literacy as a task of professional nursing

10/2009 – 09/2012
Training as a healthcare and nursing professional
Evangelical Lutheran Deaconess Institute Marienstift, Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode

Professional career

Since 07/2026
Research Assistant
Institute for Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School

May 2025 – present
Tutor for nursing professions
Marienstift Training Centre, Evangelical Foundation Neuerkerode, Braunschweig

June 2023 – April 2025
Project Manager
Kompass – Guide to Health, Nutrition and Exercise, Special Olympics Lower Saxony, Hanover

February 2022 – December 2023
Student Assistant
Plain Language Research Centre, University of Hildesheim Foundation, Hildesheim

October 2016 – May 2023
Registered Nurse
Braunschweig Municipal Hospital gGmbH, Braunschweig

09/2012 – 09/2016
Registered Nurse
Evangelical Lutheran Marienstift Deaconess Institute, Evangelical Neuerkerode Foundation, Braunschweig

Publications

Fischbock N, Guenther F & Stephan J (2023). Health literacy research with a focus on professional nursing. Qualitas 22, 32–34 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43831-023-0129-8