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.
GAIHM has undertaken significant work across multiple domains of integrative health, some examples of which are presented below. We warmly invite the natural health community to get involved and help advance these projects.
1. Pediatrics academic article [ACTIVE]
2. Integrated pediatrics care text [ACTIVE]
3. Botanical Gardens Ethnobotanical Guidance Document [ACTIVE]
4. Veterans suicide prevention academic article [ACTIVE]
5. Indigenous herbal: Herbal Traditions of the Oceti Sakowin [ACTIVE]
6. Evolution of modern medical thought [ACTIVE]
7. Scientific basis of traditional herbal medicinal plants
8. Clinically studied herbal medicines
9. International guide to herbal indications