The Consortium
Who we are
The Swiss Consortium for Sustainable Health and Ecological Transformation of the Health System (ETHICH) is an association of national Swiss organisations that aim to coordinate their actions for an equitable and ecologically sustainable health system within planetary boundaries. The vision shared by these organisations is the one presented in the Roadmap “For a sustainable Swiss healthcare system within planetary boundaries” (Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, 2022).
Our goals
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to stimulate and coordinate initiatives by organisations active in the Swiss health sector to reduce the environmental impact of healthcare services and promote the ecological transformation of the healthcare system.
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to participate in the development of a common vision of what Swiss healthcare services within planetary boundaries would mean in practice.
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to establish links with political players in the health system at national level in order to accelerate the socio-ecological transformation of the health system.
[ from art. 4 of the bylaws]
Delegates' Assembly
- Dr Christian Abshagen, co-president,
Unimedsuisse-hospitals
- Prof. Nicolas Senn, co-president,
SAFMED
- Prof. Johanna Sommer,
unimedsuisse-faculties
- Prof. Manuela Eicher & Prof. Nicole Probst-Hensch,
Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences
- Dr Bernhard Aufdereggen & Dr Mirjam Arn,
Doctors for the environment (AefU)
- Andreas Biedermann,
Public Health Switzerland
- Prof. Antoine Flahault,
SSPH+
- Barbara Mettler,
Swiss Medtech
Secretary
Sarah Michel,
UNIL (Plateforme durabilité et santé)
- Sophie Ley & Maria Rosa Joller,
SBK-ASI
- Prof. Gaël Brulé,
FKG-CSS
- Prof. David Nadal,
Swissethics
- Dr. Samuel Beck,
VSAO-ASMAC
- Anoushka Dörr,
Swimsa
- Bea Albermann,
Health for Future Switzerland
- Esther Walter,
OFSP (guest)
Member Institutions
- Doctors for the Environment (AefU)
- Health Conference of the Swiss Universities of Applied Sciences (FKG – CSS)
- Public Health Switzerland
- Swiss Association of Nurses (SBK – ASI)
- Swiss Academies of Medical Sciences (SAMS)
- Swiss Association of Research Ethics Committees (swissethics)
- Swiss Academy of Family Medicine (SAFMED)
- Swiss Medical Students' Association (Swimsa)
- Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+)
- University Medicine Switzerland (unimedsuisse)
- Association of Swiss Assistant and Senior Physicians (VSAO)
- Swiss Medtech
- Health for Future Switzerland
Guest Organisation