Organisation

The Steering Committee is responsible for running the programme - from selecting projects to scientific quality assurance and producing a synthesis at the end of the programme.

The programme manager and the president of the Steering Committee are responsible for the operational management. The representative of the federal administration and the representative of the conference of cantonal health directors will work with the Steering Committee and communicate results to the administration.

The National Research Council of the SNSF is ultimately responsible for the NRP. The delegate of the Research Council acts as a link between the Research Council and the Steering Committee.

Steering Committee of NRP 85

• Professor Lilly Shanahan, Professor of Clinical Developmental Psychology, Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development and Department of Psychology, University of Zurich (President)

• Professor Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Professor of Sociology, University of Geneva

• Professor Christoph Müller, Professor of Special Education, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

• Professor Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Research Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg

Representative of the Swiss Federal Administration

Dr Annette Fahr, Head of Scientific Research (wissenschaftliche Grundlagen), Federal Office of Public Health

Representative of the Conference of Cantonal Health Directors (GDK)

Dr Nadja Weir, Cantonal Psychiatrist of Zurich

Delegate of the Research Council Thematic and Solution-oriented Research (TSOR)

Professor Birgit Watzke, Professor for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Research, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich

Programme Manager

Dr Regine Maritz, Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne

Programme Assistant

Barbara Blatter, Swiss National Science Foundation, Berne