Strategic embedding by means of a steering committee
The strategic steering of the Swiss Health Observatory (Obsan) is carried out by a steering committee. It consists of one member of management from the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) and the Swiss Conference of Ministers of Public Health (CMPH) and the head of Obsan and its deputies.
In organisational terms, Obsan is attached to the FSO.
Internal organisation
The Obsan team is interdisciplinary, with members from the fields of economics, political science, sociology, psychology and geography. Team members are deployed according to the needs of each project. This ensures that the Obsan specialists working on a project are those best suited to its realization.