Regional consultation on Draft Global Strategy for Traditional Medicine 2025:2034 and to set the research priorities for WHO SEA Region

Overview

The regional inputs are crucial for the draft WHO Global Strategy for Traditional Medicine 2025-2034 which is being formulated and the draft version is ready for the review. The draft strategy is to be placed before the EB in September and the regional review inputs are to be included before that. Achieving the objectives of the TM strategy is closely linked to prioritized and well planned research and evidence. GTMC, Jamnagar is mandated to set the global research priorities for TM. This was planned in the global coordination meeting in March 2024 at New Delhi, with contributions of country offices, all WHO regions, and 11 WHO HQ workstreams, including the TCI unit (UHL/IHS/TCI). Further to the New Delhi meeting, TMC and IHS have had internal communications and have agreed that the regional stakeholder consultations to set the regional research priorities may be organized along with the regional Member State consultation on the new WHO traditional medicine (TM) strategy. The GTMC had asked for a focused discussion to review and set the research priorities for the SEAR. Therefore, a regional consultation on the Global Strategy and to set the research priorities for the SEAR was conducted on 20th, 21st and 22nd of August 2024 in collaboration with the Siriraj Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine (Si-CATTM), Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, WHOCC, Thailand.