Bangkok traditional medicine research consultation ends

The meeting concluded on 26 July; PAHO reported on it on 1 August.

At a signing ceremony in Geneva, India committed US$85 million over ten years toward work at the WHO centre in Jamnagar.

The WHO centre named Indigenous knowledges and biodiversity among its connected areas of work.

The India-supported centre identified research and evidence as one of its core areas rather than assuming all inherited treatments work.

The donor agreement supported centre work on primary health care, access and appropriate study of traditional knowledge.

The WHO meeting was organized with Siriraj Center of Applied Thai Traditional Medicine at Mahidol University in Bangkok.

The Bangkok consultation considered which questions about traditional care warrant investigation across the region.

Participants commented on a draft global strategy alongside regional research priorities.

The WHO account lists a Western Pacific research consultation in Seoul on 28–29 August; this is its closing day.

The Western Pacific workshop formed part of a wider WHO exercise on research priorities.