Prevention and Public Health Services Directorate

The Directorate promotes prevention and the continuing development of healthcare provision. It establishes legal frameworks and develops new public health strategies.

The Directorate works to prevent and combat both communicable and non-communicable diseases (including mental illnesses and addiction). It promotes behaviour that is beneficial to health, improves framework conditions and enhances the population’s health literacy overall.

The Directorate also makes a significant contribution to ensuring that Switzerland is supplied with an adequate number of well-qualified healthcare professionals. It promotes patient-focussed, coordinated and competence-oriented work by specialists and works together with the cantons and other partners to develop care models, especially for particularly vulnerable people.

Linda Nartey
Head of Prevention and Public Health Services Directorate, Vice Director, Member of Senior Management (since 2022)

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  Education

  Medicine and epidemiology, Master of Science

  Professional career

  2018–21 Cantonal medical officer and head of cantonal medical office, Directorate of Health, Social Services and Integration, Canton Bern | 2014–18 Deputy cantonal medical officer, Canton Bern | 2010–13 Project coordinator, Clinical Trials Unit (CTU), University of Bern | 2005–09 Research associate, Communicable Diseases, FOPH| 2003–06 Research associate, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern | 2001-02 General practitioner, Bern Women’s Health Centre | 2000 Assistant and locum in family practice | 1999 Assistant doctor and locum, Berner REHA Zentrum rehabilitation centre, Heiligenschwendi | 1995–98 Assistant doctor, surgery and gynaecology, Thun regional hospital

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