Within the secure members’ community, each working group collaborates on specific initiatives through focused discussion threads and shared input on draft documents. Members can access supporting PDFs and resources, and stay updated through a dedicated calendar of meetings and events.
GAIHM is committed to focusing on areas where we can make the greatest positive impact in pursuit of our vision. At the heart of our collaborative approach is helping to deliver and build upon the work of other specialists in the field.
WORKING GROUP 1
Goal: Strengthen credibility and trust in integrative and traditional medicine through transparent, evidence-based standards.
PRIORITY PROJECT: Integrative Treatment Guideline: Chronic Pain
WORKING GROUP 2
Goal: Equip practitioners and students with integrative, botanical, and traditional medical knowledge.
WORKING GROUP 3
Goal: Build public understanding, professional unity, and media access to credible expert voices.
PRIORITY PROJECTS: Women’s Health, Birthing (Infant and Maternal Mortality)
WORKING GROUP 4
Goal: Foster international cooperation and policy alignment in integrative health.
PRIORITY PROJECT: Support to the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Center
WORKING GROUP 5
Goal: Assess preventive and culturally rooted health practices worldwide and document and evaluate their relevance in a global context.
WORKING GROUP 6
Goal: Create platforms to connect health systems for sharing ethnomedical knowledge and integrative medicine experience and compile data and insights to make them globally accessible.