Evidence-based traditional medicine for transforming global health and well-being

Bhushan Patwardhan¹, L Susan Wieland², Obijiofor Aginam³, Anchalee Chuthaputti⁴, Ricardo Ghelman⁵, Roshanak Ghods⁶, Goh Cheng Soon⁷, Motlalepula G Matsabisa⁸, Georg Seifert⁹, Sione Tu’itahi¹⁰, Kim Sung Chol¹¹, Shyama Kuruvilla¹², Kathi Kemper¹³, Holger Cramer¹⁴, HR Nagendra¹⁵, Anup Thakar¹⁶, Tanuja Nesari¹⁷, Sanjeev Sharma¹⁸, Narayanam Srikanth¹⁹, Rabinarayan Acharya^20
1 Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Ramkumar Rathi Patanjali Yoga Chair at School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India; External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
² External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Family & Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, United States of America
³ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
⁴ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Institute of Thai Traditional Medicine, Nonthaburi, Thailand
⁵ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Medicine and Primary Care, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
⁶ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Persian Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
⁷ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Traditional and Complementary Medicine Division, Ministry of Health, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
⁸ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Health Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
⁹ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Pediatrics, Division of Oncology and Hematology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
¹⁰ External Advisory Group for the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Summit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Health Promotion Forum, Auckland, New Zealand
¹¹ TCI Unit, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
¹² World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
¹³ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; Complementary Therapies in Medicine, Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, United States of America
¹⁴ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, University of Duisburg-Essen Chair of Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Essen, Germany
¹⁵ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge, S-VYASA Yoga University, Bengaluru, India
¹⁶ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; AYU Journal, Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar, India
¹⁷ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; International Journal of Ayurveda Research, All India Institute of Ayurveda, New Delhi, India
¹⁸ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; Journal of Ayurveda, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, India
¹⁹ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; Journal of Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi, India
²⁰ Journal Editors endorsing Editorial ; Journal of Drug Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences, New Delhi, India

Correspondence Address:
Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan
Ramkumar Rathi Patanjali Yoga Chair at School of Health Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune
Switzerland

Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None

DOI: 10.4103/jdras.jdras_194_23