Historical Person
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Gender: Male
Delegates met in Gandhinagar to discuss evidence, access and the future of traditional medicine.
The Indian government and WHO convened practitioners, researchers and policymakers.
WHO’s director-general referred to his experience of traditional practitioners in Ethiopia.
The meeting asked how practices could be studied and integrated responsibly into health systems.
WHO reports that its director general met a civil society coalition on 3 July before the global medicine summit.
WHO says representatives of more than 300 civil society organizations joined the virtual meeting.
Participants discussed inherited community practices and their relationship to health system priorities.
The civil society dialogue fed into WHO work on data, regulation and equitable access.
