Annual reports of swissethics
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2023
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2022
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2021
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2020
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2019
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2018
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2017
Jahresbericht der Geschäftsstelle swissethics für das Jahr 2016
Annual report of swissethics for the year 2015
Pubblications of swissethics
Kostengutsprache: Die Übernahme von Medikamentenkosten ist aktuell abhängig vom Krankenversicherer und beruht nicht auf transparenten Kriterien. Die zur Vernehmlassung stehende Revision des Art. 71 KVV könnte das ändern. Neu sollen ethische Prinzipien eine zentrale Rolle spielen.
Analysis on the further use of health-related personal data and biological material and the application of Article 34 HRA.
In German: Link
In English: Link
Authors reply to: Research projects in human genetics in Switzerland: analysis of research protocols submitted to cantonal ethics committees in 2018, Swiss Med Wkly. 2021;151:w20518
In English: Link
Activities of the Ethics Committees for human research (published by the FOPH)
Annual reports of the Koordinationsstelle Forschung am Menschen (kofam), published by the Federal Office of public health (FOPH)
Descriptive statistics on projects involving research on humans
Descriptive statistics on research covered by the Human Research Act (HRA)
Descriptive statistics on research covered by the Human Research Act (HRA)
Descriptive statistics on research covered by the Human Research Act (HRA)
Descriptive statistics on research covered by the Human Research Act (HRA)
Descriptive statistics on research covered by the Human Research Act (HRA)
Descriptive statistics on research covered by the Human Research Act (HRA)
HRA-Revision
Summary report of the Human Research Act (HRA) working group with proposals for the revision of the law and the ordinances
Evaluation of the HRA
A summary of the report in English is accesible here.
Statistics and survey about the implementation of the Swiss Human Research Act (HRA)
Three-part departmental research project, commissioned by the FOPH in collaboration with swissethics.
Detailed information about the HRA-evaluation can be found on the webpage of the FOPH.
Sub-project 1: Descriptive statistics on projects involving research on humans
Descriptive statistics about approved projects that were submitted to the cantonal Ethics Committees in 2016 and 2017, including the approval processes and response times.
Sub-project 2: Survey of researchers on the implementation of the human research act
Survey of researchers about regulations in human research. Participants of the survey have submitted a research project through BASEC in 2017.
More documents about the sub-project 2 have been published on the website of the FOPH.
Sub-project 3: Characteristics of clarifications of responsibility
Characteristics of clarifications of responsibility submitted to Ethics Committees between July and December 2017
Summary of all three sub-projects