The Chair on Digital Health Interventions researches and teaches on the question of how health measures can be enforced by digital means. This requires direct cooperation between the medical and technical sciences. The research field is still young but already well estab-lished, and it is also part of the World Health Organization's catalog of topics.
Since 2013, Tobias Kowatsch is the Scientific Director of the Centre for Digital Health Intervention, a joint initiative of the Department of Management, Technology and Economics at ETH Zurich and the Institute of Technology Management at the University of St.Gallen. Since 2015, Tobias is also the Scientific Director of the CSS Health Lab, a joint initiative of the Chair of Information Management at ETH Zurich and the Chair of Operations Management at the University of St.Gallen.
Since 1st of August 2022, Tobias Kowatsch is Extraordinary Professor for Digital Health Interventions at the Institute for Implementation Science in Health Care, Medical Faculty, University of Zurich. He joins also the board of directors of the School of Medicine at the University of St.Gallen.