Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA
Food safety and animal health are also among the tasks of the FDHA. FSVO border veterinarians check the import of animals at Geneva airport.
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.
Elisabeth Baume-Schneider
Head of the FDHA.
Member of the Federal Council since 2023.
Equality, solidarity and diversity are essential values that the FDHA defends on a daily basis.
Priorities of the FDHA in 2024
The FDHA works to strengthen social cohesion, 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 2022 (CHF)
20 bn
Staff (FTEs) 2021
2,678
Organisation chart FDHA
