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Thomas Zeltner
Thomas Zeltner in 2025
Born (1947-11-15) 15 November 1947 (age 78)
Bern, Switzerland
OccupationsPresident Swiss Red Cross, Chairman WHO Foundation, physician, lawyer, and former Secretary of Health of Switzerland
Known forPresident of the Swiss Red Cross; Chairman WHO Foundation; former secretary of health of Switzerland; professor of public health at the University of Bern, Switzerland; president of the Swiss Commission for UNESCO; and board member of the Medical University of Vienna

Thomas Zeltner (born 15 November 1947) is a Swiss physician and lawyer. He is the current president of the Swiss Red Cross [1] and chairman of the WHO Foundation.[2] He was also the former Secretary of Health of Switzerland Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA. He has a long history in public health and has repeatedly been ranked among the 12 most influential political figures of Switzerland.[3]

Zeltner is professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in Public Health. He chairs the Swiss Research Institute for Public Health and Addiction (Zürich) [4] and is President of UNESCO Commission of Switzerland.[5] He is also member of the University Council of the Medical University of Vienna.[6]

Past

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Zeltner was born on 15 November 1947 in Bern, Switzerland. He graduated with an M.D. and an LL.M. (master's in law) from the University of Berne. He specialized in human pathology and forensic medicine before becoming the head of Medical Services at the Bern University Hospital. He held various faculty positions at the University of Bern and at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is Doctor of law (honoris causa) of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

In 1991, the Swiss Government appointed Zeltner as the 8th Director-General of the Swiss National Health Authority and Secretary of Health of Switzerland, a position he held until the end of 2009.

The 4 pillars of Switzerland's drug policy: prevention, treatment, harm reduction and repression.

Under Zeltner's leadership, Switzerland developed in 1991 a pioneering illicit drug policy, which has received global attention. It is based on a 4-pillar strategy (prevention, harm reduction, therapy, and law enforcement), which is enshrined in the Swiss law on narcotic drugs. The harm reduction policy of Switzerland – which includes large-scale syringe exchange programs (also in prisons)[7] and the medical prescription of heroin for chronic heroin addicts – was introduced against the strong opposition of the UN drug control authorities,[8] but endorsed by a majority of the Swiss population in several popular referendums.[9] As director of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, he presided over changes to transform the regulated market model of the Swiss health care sector into a more value- and consumer-driven health care system. The Swiss model guarantees access to affordable insurance to all, even if they have pre-existing medical problems. All residents are required to buy insurance even if they are currently healthy, so that the risk pool remains reasonably favorable. Finally subsidies are given to low income families to pay for their premiums. Even though the Swiss pay 11.8% of the GDP for health (data 2024),[10] a majority of 63% considers that the system works well or very well (data 2023).[11]

In 1999–2000, at the request of the then-Director General of WHO, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Zeltner chaired a committee which investigated the efforts of multinational tobacco companies to undermine tobacco control activities of the World Health Organization (2000).[12] This landmark report marks the beginning of the development of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2003).[13] With his efforts to reduce tobacco consumption in Switzerland, Zeltner became a favorite adversary of big tobacco and was nicknamed “the Tobacco Taliban.".[14] Zeltner was a member and vice-president of the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1999-2002). He chaired the committee to reform the governance rules of the WHO in 2002–4. He was also Executive President of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (1994–95) and Chairman of the Governing Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, (1998-2000). Between 2012 and 2014, Zeltner served the World Health Organization (WHO) in the capacity of a Special Envoy.

In this function he advised the Director General of WHO, Margaret Chan, in critical areas of the ongoing reform of this UN agency.[15][16] The work was successfully completed by adoption of the Framework of Engagement with Non-State Actors (FENSA) by the World Health Assembly in May 2016

Current position

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In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced[17] that Zeltner was one of the founding board members and the first chairman of the WHO Foundation, an independent grant-making foundation focused on addressing the most pressing global health challenges of today and tomorrow.[18]

Since 1992, he has been Professor of Public Health at the University of Bern. Since 2018 he also serves as a member of the Board of the Medical University of Vienna (Austria).

In 2023 he was elected as president of Swiss Red Cross.

References

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  1. ^ https://www.redcross.ch/de/ueber-uns/schweizerisches-rotes-kreuz/unsere-organisation/der-rotkreuzrat-fuehrt-das-schweizerische-rote-kreuz.
  2. ^ "Une fondation suisse au secours (Financier) de l'OMS". Le Temps. 28 May 2020.
  3. ^ http://www.bilanz.ch/luxus/geballte-macht Die Mächtigsten: Geballte Macht
  4. ^ https://www.isgf.uzh.ch/de/aboutus/foundation.html;
  5. ^ https://www.unesco.ch/type_com_members/thomas-zeltner/.
  6. ^ https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/organisation/universitaetsleitung/universitaetsrat/.
  7. ^ "Nicole Pepper for the Harm Reduction Coalition. Syringe Exchange in Prisons: The International Experience". Harm Reduction Coalition. 2007. Retrieved 31 Jul 2013.
  8. ^ "Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 1995" (PDF). International Narcotics Control Board. 1996. Retrieved 31 Jul 2013.
  9. ^ Savary JF, Hallam C, Bewley-Taylor D (2009). "The Swiss Four Pillars Policy: an evolution from local experimentation to federal law" (PDF). The Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme. Briefing Paper Eighteen.
  10. ^ https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/de/home/statistiken/querschnittsthemen/monitoring-legislaturplanung/indikatoren/kosten-gesundheitswesen.html.
  11. ^ https://www.admin.ch/de/nsb?id=99203. Zeltner was a member and vice-president of the executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1999-2002). He chaired the committee to reform the governance rules of the WHO in 2002–4. He was also Executive President of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe (1994–95) and Chairman of the Governing Council of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, (1998-2000). Between 2012 and 2014, Zeltner served the World Health Organization (WHO) in the capacity of a Special Envoy.<ref>Cassels A. (Apr 2013). "Change @ WHO: New approach to financing". World Health Organization. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  12. ^ Zeltner T, Kessler DA, Martiny A, Randera F (Jul 2000). "Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organization. Report of the Committee of Experts on Tobacco Industry Documents" (PDF). Geneva, Switzerland. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 2, 2004. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  13. ^ Reynolds LA, Tansey EM, eds. (2010) [1] The transcript of a Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, in collaboration with the Department of Knowledge Management and Sharing, WHO, held in Geneva, on 26 February 2010. WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Retrieved 31 Jul 2013.
  14. ^ Ullekh NP (Jun 2, 2013). "Tobacco industry's bet on India & China may lead to surge in lifestyle diseases: Thomas Zeltner". The Economic Times (India).
  15. ^ "WHO needs change". Nature Publishing Group. 12 May 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  16. ^ "WHO reform process: Landmark events of the WHO reform process from the initial consultation on the future of financing for WHO". World Health Organization. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  17. ^ "WHO Foundation Established to Support Critical Global Health Needs". World Health Organization (see also: "WHO dot int", and "whofoundationproject dot org" ). May 27, 2020. Archived from the original on May 27, 2020. Retrieved May 27, 2020. Founding Board Members are: Mr. Bob Carter, Ms. Clare Akamanzi and Professor Thomas Zeltner.
  18. ^ "WHO launches fundraising foundation in Geneva". 28 May 2020.
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