Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA
Households spend around 6% of their income on food and non-alcoholic beverages. This is just one of the 550 statistics that the FSO compiles every year.
The FDHA works to ensure the country has an efficient and effective health system that is accessible to all. It is also committed to protecting the pension system – state and occupational pensions – into the future. Its areas of activity include promoting cultural diversity and cohesion in society, gender equality and the integration of people with disabilities.
Member of the Federal Council since 2012.
President of the Swiss Confederation in 2023
The FDHA strives for greater solidarity and social cohesion in society.
Priorities of the FDHA in 2023
COVID, the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis: rolling crises trigger uncertainty. In situations like these, social cohesion is crucial. The FDHA works to strengthen this cohesion, for example by ensuring gender equality and solidarity between generations, improving the integration of people with disabilities and promoting cultural and linguistic diversity. A further priority is the fight against racism.
The tasks performed by the staff of the FDHA have a direct impact on people’s everyday lives in a wide range of fields: social security and occupational pensions, containing costs in the health sector and authorising new medicines, promoting culture, food safety and animal health, providing reliable weather forecasts and statistics.
The Department is currently implementing numerous reform projects to ensure an efficient health system that is accessible to all, favourable framework conditions for the cultural sector, and social insurance schemes that are financially stable in the long term to support people at all stages of life.
Expenses 2021 (CHF)
19.58 bn
Staff (FTEs) 2021
2,633
Organisation chart FDHA
General Secretariat GS-FDHA
Secretary General: Lukas Gresch-Brunner
www.fdha.admin.ch
Federal Office for Gender
Equality FOGE
Director: Sylvie
Durrer
www.ebg.admin.ch
Federal Office of Culture FOC
Director: Carine Bachmann
www.bak.admin.ch
Swiss Federal Archives SFA
Director: Philippe
Künzler
www.bar.admin.ch
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
Director: Christoph Appenzeller
www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch
Federal Office of Public Health FOPH
Director: Anne Lévy
www.bag.admin.ch
Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office FSVO
Director: Hans Wyss
www.blv.admin.ch
Federal Statistical Office FSO
Director:
Georges-Simon Ulrich
www.bfs.admin.ch
Federal Social Insurance Office FSIO
Director: Stéphane
Rossini
www.bsv.admin.ch
Autonomous organisations
Swiss Agency for Therapeutic Products Swissmedic
Director: Raimund T.
Bruhin
www.swissmedic.ch
Swiss National Museum SNM
Director: Denise Tonella
www.nationalmuseum.ch
Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Director: Philippe
Bischof
www.prohelvetia.ch
