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August 2022

One Health for the Future: Three Pathways Against Tomorrow’s Crises

With the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the past two and a half years have highlighted more than ever the need for a holistic policy approach when tackling phenomena such as zoonotic diseases (infectious diseases jumping from animals to humans). At the same time the way humanity is interacting with its environment needs to radically change to preserve not only our own but also our ecosystem’s health. If the status quo remains, future crises seem unavoidable. The project One Health for the Future explores the phenomena of zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance (AMR), and food safety and security threats, 3 phenomena that One Health aims at preventing and addressing.

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December 2020

Health Data Governance: What’s in it for Switzerland? [Français]

Comment l’utilisation des données de santé doit-elle être réglée au niveau national et international pour que l’on puisse pleinement profiter de leur potentiel et que leur effets bénéfiques soient distribués de manière égalitaire ? Et quel rôle la Suisse peut-elle jouer à cet égard ? What’s in it for Switzerland ? Cette étude présente 12 recommandations d’action pour une meilleure gouvernance des données de santé. Elles sont le résultat d’un processus participatif national que le foraus et Sensor Advice ont mené ensemble en 2020.

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December 2020

Health Data Governance: What’s in it for Switzerland? [English]

How should the use of health data be regulated nationally and internationally, in order for their potential to be fully exploited and so that everyone can benefit from it? And what is the role that Switzerland can play in all this? What’s in it for Switzerland? This study presents 12 broad-based recommendations for action for better health data governance. They are the result of a national participatory process carried out together by foraus and Sensor Advice in 2020.

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December 2020

Health Data Governance: What’s in it for Switzerland? [Deutsch]

Wie muss die Nutzung von Gesundheitsdaten national und international geregelt werden, damit ihr Potenzial bestmöglich umgesetzt werden kann und alle davon profitieren? Und welche Rolle kann die Schweiz dabei spielen? What’s in it for Switzerland? In dieser Studie werden 12 breit abgestützte Handlungsempfehlungen für eine bessere Gesundheitsdaten-Governance präsentiert. Sie sind das Ergebnis eines nationalen partizipativen Prozesses, den foraus und Sensor Advice im Jahr 2020 gemeinsam durchgeführt haben.

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May 2022

Objective 2050: Four visions for a comprehensive NCD prevention strategy

In 2021, our first edition of the Global Labs project focused on the topic of noncommunicable diseases and related risk factors such as unhealthy diets, tobacco use, air pollution, or physical inactivity ended in May 2022. After an exchange with professionals from the WHO’s NCD Department, civil society (NCD Alliance), academia (University of Geneva), and the private sector (Price Waterhouse Cooper Switzerland), participants formulated policy recommendations to address NCD risk factors in the future.

Authors: Besma Abdallah, Katharina Beyer, Thuy Duyen Chau, Yannik Gräf, Yuling Lin, Alicia Rieckhoff, Llanos Bernardeau Serra, Nirosiha Sivaruban, Wenqin Zhang

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