Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA
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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 inclusion of people with disabilities.
Elisabeth Baume-Schneider
Head of the FDHA.
Member of the Federal Council since 2023.
Equality, inclusion, solidarity and diversity are fundamental values that the FDHA champions every day.
Priorities of the FDHA in 2026
The FDHA works to strengthen social cohesion by ensuring gender equality and solidarity between generations, improving the inclusion 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, financially sustainable healthcare system that is accessible to all in the long term, to guarantee favourable conditions for the cultural sector and to ensure sustainable financing of social security for current and future generations.
Expenses 2024 (CHF)
20.98bn
Staff (FTEs) 2024
2,809
Organisation chart FDHA
