Dr Chika Esiobu holds a doctorate in African Studies from Howard University, Washington, DC. Her work is grounded in the exploration of Indigenous knowledge as a foundational pathway to individual, community and societal transformation and planetary renewal. Dr Esiobu’s interests include Traditional Medicine, ecological knowledge, agroecology and Indigenous education and culture. She currently teaches at Soka University of America, California.
Dr Esiobu has conducted research on Indigenous knowledge in Africa in collaboration with global organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Development Research Centre, Canada and the Swedish International Development Agency.
She is widely published and is the author of Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa (Springer, 2019). Her TED Talk, “How Africa can use its Traditional Knowledge to make progress”, has garnered critical acclaim. She has shared her insights at Yale University, the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, the London School of Economics and the African Union, among others.

Dr Andrés de Francisco is a medical doctor trained in Colombia and an epidemiologist trained in London, with postgraduate studies in tropical medicine, public health and early laboratory work on antimalarial compounds.
He has advised governments in more than 50 countries and worked with Indigenous communities across Asia, Africa and Latin America. He helped integrate traditional healing practices into primary health care in the Colombian Amazon and led the development and adoption of PAHO’s 2017 Policy on Ethnicity and Health.
Trained in ancient therapeutic Thai massage and Himalayan meditation, he bridges scientific and traditional health systems. He has authored over 100 publications and is President and Co-Founder of ÆRAS Development Group.

Professor Rama Jayasundar, Head, Department of NMR, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, has dual specializations: A physicist with a PhD in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) from the University of Cambridge, UK, she also holds a professional medical degree in Ayurveda (Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery). She is the only person to hold dual degrees in physics and Ayurveda at both national and international levels.
Her current research leverages this training. She investigates Ayurveda’s concepts, methods, pharmacology and clinical practices using techniques such as NMR and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). She is also actively engaged in disseminating knowledge on the scientific basis of Ayurveda.
Previously, as a visiting Professor at Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Gottingen, Germany, she worked on functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques.
She has also been recognized with the Young Scientist Award for developing low-cost RF coils for clinical MRI scanners.

Dr Unnikrishnan Payyappalli is a Professor at the University of Trans-Disciplinary Health Sciences and Technology, Bangalore, India. His research interests are AYUSH and Integrative health systems, community health, traditional knowledge epistemology and sustainability studies.
He has been active in several related global science–policy processes. He is a member of the WHO Expert Working Group on Biodiversity, Climate, One Health and Nature-Based Solutions. He has contributed to the Global Assessment Report on Forests and Trees for Human Health by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations and the IPBES Nexus assessment.
Before his current position, he worked for 10 years with the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan, in health systems and sustainability-related programmes.
Dr Payyappalli has an undergraduate medical degree in Ayurveda from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India, and a Master’s in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He holds a doctoral degree in International Development Studies from Yokohama National University, Japan.

Dr Viswajanani Sattigeri is a scientist and Head of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) Unit. Her work involves expanding the scope and user base of the TKDL, a tool for protecting Indian traditional knowledge in medicine, agriculture, metallurgy and allied areas. The TKDL currently contains about half a million formulations and practices from Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani, Sowa Rigpa and Yoga.
At CSIR, she handles strategic planning, monitoring, and decision and policy insights.
Before CSIR, Dr Sattigeri worked with the New Drug Discovery Research at Ranbaxy Research Laboratories Ltd., India, where she led drug discovery programmes across therapeutic areas. She was instrumental in progressing a drug candidate for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to Phase II clinical trials under the Glaxo SmithKline-Ranbaxy collaboration. Later, at SmartAnalyst Pvt Ltd, she provided decision analytics support to big Pharma and biotech companies in the United States of America and Europe, among others, in pharmaceuticals and drugs.

Dr João Paulo Souza, MD, PhD, MBA, is a Brazilian physician and scientist dedicated to global health. Since 2008, he has served the World Health Organization in different positions and capacities. In 2022, he became Director of BIREME, a specialized PAHO/WHO Center on Information Sciences that supports health action across the Americas. He is recognized for major contributions to maternal health, including the maternal near-miss concept, predictive models such as the C-Model and Standard Mortality Index, and the obstetric transition theory. In recent years, he has promoted inter-epistemic dialogue to identify safe, effective, and culturally appropriate traditional and integrative practices that can be articulated with national health systems and advance universal access to health. He led the technical development of the WHO Traditional Medicine Global Library. JP Souza has authored more than 250 scientific publications and has a high academic impact (Google H-index >100).

Dr Paul U. Unschuld, Chinese name Wen Shude 文树德, studied pharmaceutical sciences, sinology and political sciences at Munich University in Germany, and public health at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, United States of America. There, he became a Professor in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and was part of the US delegation to the World Health Conference in 1976. He returned to Germany in 1986 to head the Institute of Medical History of Munich University. In 2007, he became the founding Director of the Institute for the History, Ethics and Theory of Chinese Life Sciences at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, focusing on the comparative history of ideas in Chinese and European medicine.
Dr Unschuld has translated ancient Chinese medical classics and the Ben cao gang mu, a large encyclopedia of therapeutic substances, into English. Most recently, he published a German version of his History of Acupuncture in China. From Antiquity to the Republican Era.

Professor Rabinarayan Acharya is Director General of the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of Ayush, Government of India. A renowned Ayurvedic scholar with over 30 years of experience, he previously served as Dean and Director at the Institute of Teaching and Research in Ayurveda (ITRA), Jamnagar. He holds MD, PhD and DSc degrees in Ayurveda and a Postgraduate Diploma in Bioethics.
Professor Acharya has authored five books and published over 450 research articles. He serves as Chairman of the Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia Committee and is an honorary member of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre Expert Editorial Committee. Under his leadership, CCRAS has launched national research programmes such as SPARK and SMART. He has received 13 national awards, including the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM) National Award.

Distinguished Professor Jon Adams is Co-Director of the Australian Consortium in Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where he is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health. He is also a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Senior Fellow at the International Primary Care Research Leadership Programme, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
A world-leading researcher, Professor Adams focuses on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) use, practice and self-care within primary health care and public health. His research has attracted over US$ 26 million in funding. He has authored over 630 peer-reviewed publications, established and leads four international TCIM research leadership programmes and mentored over 90 early-career and mid-career researchers.

Dr Rania Afifi is a pharmacist and PhD researcher in social accountability applied to public health at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat. In my PharmD thesis, she has developed practical SOPs for traditional herbal medicines, using evidence from WHO guidelines and adapting them to the Moroccan context to make remedies safer, traceable and socially responsible.
Beyond research, Dr Afifi turns ideas into action: through Erasmus+, youth networks and global health initiatives. She leads projects that empower students, connect communities and build bridges, with one ambition: to humanize health care and make it truly accountable to the people it serves.

Dr Diana De Carvalho is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Trained as a chiropractor with advanced graduate degrees in kinesiology, she leads the SPine biomechanics and INterventional Ergonomics (SPINE) Lab. Her research team studies spine biomechanics, ergonomics and clinical low back pain, particularly in relation to seated posture.
Dr De Carvalho draws on her experience as both a Fellow and Mentor in the Chiropractic Academy for Research Leadership (CARL) to advocate for mentorship, equity and global capacity-building. Her work focuses on cultivating inclusive research and leadership opportunities for emerging researchers to help them navigate professional and personal challenges in academia.

Associate Professor Amie Steel specializes in health systems integration and research leadership for Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She has led multiple international projects on evidence-informed policy and capacity-building, including contributions to the WHO Traditional Medicine Research Roadmap and global strategy development.
Her work focuses on advancing culturally responsive methodologies, strengthening research ecosystems and promoting the equitable integration of Traditional Medicine into health systems. Associate Professor Steel serves on global advisory panels and collaborates widely to foster innovation and sustainability in Traditional Medicine research.

Ms Anke Weishiet is a seasoned expert with over 20 years in agribusiness, Traditional Medicine, innovation incubation, entrepreneurship and rural development. As a strategic advisor and co-founder of Mbarara University’s PHARMBIOTRAC, she fosters biodiversity-based micro, small and medium enterprises and research-to-commercialization. Her work includes advancing agribusiness value chains, designing incubation frameworks and strengthening rural and refugee livelihood programs. A WHO Health and Heritage Innovations (H2I) 2025 finalist, she holds a Master’s in Agriculture and has co-developed approved herbal products and published on ethnobotany and food security. She specializes in project coordination, innovation incubation and strategic planning.

Dr Arman Zargaran is an Associate Professor of Traditional Pharmacy and Head of the Department of History of Medicine at the School of Persian Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the Islamic Republic of Iran. He also serves as Vice-Dean for Education at the School and Vice for International Affairs at the Persian and Complementary Medicine Office within the Ministry of Health.

Dr Zargaran obtained his PharmD and PhD in Traditional Pharmacy from Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, the Islamic Republic of Iran. A prolific researcher, he has authored 10 books and over 200 papers in reputed peer-reviewed international journals. His work is widely cited, and among the top 2% of scientists as recognized by Elsevier since 2021.

MUDr Abdullah Obaid Alanazi is consultant doctor from Saudi Arabia. He has more than 20 years’ experience in health care leadership positions, with national, regional and global representations. He is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of International Collaboration at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. He is also a member of the National Advisory Committee for CAM Policies and the International Collaboration Committee at the Ministry of Health. Currently, he works to implement the goals and objectives of the Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025–2034.

MUDr Alanazi’s medical qualifications were obtained from Karolinska and Safarik universities in Sweden and Slovakia, respectively. Additionally, he has Health Informatics and Health Media degrees from Saudi universities. During his career he has completed Advanced Medical Law and Healthcare Quality professional development programmes from Ireland and the United States of America, respectively.

Ms Kerstin Andrae-Marobela is an Associate Professor for Molecular Cell Biology at the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Botswana (UB). She led the Center for Scientific Research, Indigenous Knowledge and Innovation at UB until 2024. The Center’s mandate is to document, protect and promote Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) by translating them into innovations for community development. Further, she is currently the Vice President of the Natural Products Research Network (NAPRECA), Botswana Chapter.

One research focus is the development of Indigenous knowledge-based drug discovery platforms for infectious diseases with an emphasis on HIV antivirals and latency reversal agents. Her research group has developed participatory research methods, IKS policy and policy guidelines, as well as science communication approaches at the interface of natural science and Traditional Medicine. Her work led to a collaborative network with traditional healers in Botswana and instruments to navigate the often contested space between IKS, communities and governance.

Dr Rudolf (“Rudi”) Eggers is a South African public health physician with extensive experience in epidemiology, disease control and health administration. He holds a medical degree and postgraduate qualifications from the University of Pretoria. Since September 2021, Dr Eggers has served as Director for Integrated Health Services at the WHO, leading technical work on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine.

Prior to this, he was WHO Representative to Kenya, overseeing health advancement efforts, including COVID-19 response activities. He also led immunization systems strengthening at WHO Headquarters in Geneva for over a decade, contributing to global strategies such as the Global Vaccine Action Plan. With strong regional experience, he worked as WHO’s Intercountry Coordinator for Immunization in East Africa and managed South Africa’s national immunization programme before joining WHO in 1999. Dr Eggers is committed to universal health coverage and believes that national leadership is critical to health system success.

Professor Dr Ricardo Ghelman (MD, PhD) is paediatrician, paediatric oncologist and Professor at the Department of Medicine on Primary Health Care, Medical School at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Dr Ghelman is the Founding Chair of the Brazilian Academic Consortium for Integrative Health and has been a member of the WHO Expert Advisory Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Panel (TCIM) and TCIM Americas Network/Pan American Health Organization since 2019. He is a member of the Research Council in Anthroposophic Medicine, Switzerland, Co-Chair of Global Committee of Society of Integrative Oncology (SIO) and SIO Ambassador for Brazil, member of the Executive Board of European Society of Integrative Medicine, Pioneer of Integrative Pediatrics in Brazil, Vice-President of the Department of Integrative Pediatrics and the São Paulo Society of Pediatrics. Coordinator of Evidence Maps on Clinical Effectiveness of TCIM at the Brazilian Academic Consortium of Integrative Health (CABSIN).

Professor John Hughes is an Associate Professor in Integrated Medicine at the University of West London. He is a leading international academic within the field of Traditional, Complementary and Integrated Medicine (TCIM). He is the Head of Research for the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (RLHIM) and leads the hospital’s Research Department. The Research Department at RLHIM is one of the largest research centres for TCIM in the United Kingdom. John is also the Head of the RLHIM WHO Collaborating Centre in Integrated Medicine, Co-Chair of the WHO Traditional Medicine Reference Group and a member of WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine. In addition, he is a Member of the Editorial Board, and Section Editor for Qualitative Methods, for the European Journal of Integrative Medicine, and a member of numerous TCIM networks and associations.

Dr Mohamed Khalil is a recognized authority on Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) research and policy. He is a Clinical Associate Professor at King Saud, Al-Qassim and Majmaah universities.
Previously, he founded and led the Research Unit at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the Saudi Ministry of Health, spending a decade as Technical Advisor for Research Development and International Cooperation. He was also a member of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Strategic TCIM Committee.

Trained as a paediatrician, his thesis on vaccine failure sparked a parallel career in immunization science. He later spent 10 years advising the Saudi Ministry of Health on vaccine research and child health surveys, collaborated on WHO and United Nations Children’s Fund projects and supported the health ministers of the GCC states. He is an Expert Member of the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on TCIM and a Board Member of the WHO TCIM Evidence Project.

Dr Chunyu Wei currently serves as Deputy Director-General of the International Cooperation Department of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the People’s Republic of China. With over 20 years of professional experience, she has been deeply engaged in the management, policy formulation, regulatory oversight and international promotion of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

From 2021 to 2023, Dr Wei worked as a Technical Officer at the WHO Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Unit. Additionally, she acted as the focal point for the WHO International Regulatory Cooperation for Herbal Medicines network, facilitating global collaboration in this field. Dr Wei’s academic publications primarily focus on analysing the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine from an international perspective.

Dr Kalpanaben Ajoodhea is the Senior Ayurvedic Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Mauritius. She has over 30 years of clinical practice experience in the field of Ayurveda in Mauritius. She obtained a Bachelor’s in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery and an MSc in Health Services Management.
Dr Ajoodhea has delivered talks, workshops and seminars to educate the public on the Ayurvedic system of medicine and adopting a healthy lifestyle across the island.
Internationally, she has actively participated in several WHO projects, such as the benchmarks for practice of Ayurveda, Unani and Panchakarma in 2019, and benchmarks for training in Ayurveda in 2020. Dr Ajoodhea has also engaged in the peer review process for three WHO standard terminologies documents for Ayurveda, Siddha and Unani systems of medicine in 2021. She has provided her expertise through the process of the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) Module 2 on Traditional Medicine.

Ms Natalja Eigo has over 20 years of experience in health statistics and Health Accounts. She has worked with the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), supporting countries in strengthening health expenditure tracking. Since joining WHO Headquarters as a Health Economist in 2019, she has coordinated data collection, validation and technical assistance across the European, Western Pacific and South-East Asia regions. She leads work on the development of Health Accounts guidelines and digital tools. Previously, she headed national health registers and health statistics at the Estonian Institute for Health Development.

Dr Puneshwar Keshari is an accomplished Ayurveda physician and Section Chief at Nepal’s Department of Ayurveda and Alternative Medicine under the Ministry of Health and Population.
He has a Bachelor’s in Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery from Tribhuvan University and an MD (Dravyaguna Vigyan) from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India. Dr Keshari specializes in Ayurveda pharmacology, ethnomedicine and traditional drug development. Since 2003, he has led national initiatives on Ayurveda policy, guideline formulation and International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) Traditional Medicine integration, serving as Nepal’s focal person for WHO projects. A member of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Global Task Force on Traditional Pharmacopoeia, Dr Keshari has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and COVID-19 protocols, advancing evidence-based Ayurveda globally.

Mr Nenad Friedrich Ivan Kostanjsek has worked in the Classifications and Terminologies (CAT) Team at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland, since 1999. During the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), he coordinated the development of the Traditional Medicine Chapter. Currently, he is involved in the development of the Traditional Medicine intervention code set in ICHI and the Minimum Data Set for Traditional Medicine in Routine Health Information Systems (MDS-TM-RHIS).

Before joining WHO, he worked as Programme Officer and Technical Adviser for the German Development Cooperation in Africa, Latin America and Germany. He holds a Master of Science in Administrative Science and Public Sector Management, with a specialization in Health Systems Development from the University of Konstanz. He is a doctoral candidate in Human Biology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications.

Rana Jongran Lee is a senior researcher at the Global Cooperation Center of the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, where she has worked since 2013. Her work centres on advancing international collaboration in Korean medicine and contributing to global standard-setting initiatives. Since 2013, she has actively participated in WHO projects, including the development of the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision (ICD-11) Traditional Medicine Chapter and other Traditional Medicine-related classifications and standards. Through these efforts, she has played a role in shaping internationally recognized frameworks for the integration and understanding of Traditional Medicine systems.
With a foundation in Korean Medicine and Science and Technology Policy, she specializes in policy development, evidence-based approaches in Traditional Medicine, and the coordination of multinational research projects. Before joining KIOM, she served in a range of clinical roles, including head doctor and assistant doctor in Korean medicine clinics and hospitals, gaining extensive practical experience in patient care and clinical management.

Dr M.S. Sajeewane Perea is the Consultant of Stree Roga and Prasuti Tantra, Department of Ayurveda, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka. Currently, she is the Unit Head of the International Relations Unit, Department of Ayurveda, and the WHO focal point for the second Traditional Medicine chapter in the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision, and the Third WHO Global Survey on TCIM in Sri Lanka. Dr Sajeewane also serves as a member of the Ethical Review Committee at the Bandaranayake Memorial Ayurveda Research Institute, and the speciality Boards of Postgraduate Institute of Indigenous Medicine in Stree Roga and Prasuti Tantra, and Kaumarabrithya.
Dr Sajeewane has a Bachelor of Ayurveda Medicine and Surgery from the Institute of Indigenous Medicine at the University of Colombo and a Master of Science in Kayachikista from GWAI, the University of Kelaniya. She obtained her Master of Surgery (MS Ayu) in Stree Roga and Prasuti Tantra from Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar, India.

Dr Amani Siyam is a demographer (PhD LSE) and biostatistician (MSc LSHTM). She has been working with WHO since 2002. She is involved in the development and implementation of WHO normative tools and standards such as the SCORE for health technical package, the Harmonized Health Facility Assessment toolkit and the WHO Child Growth Standards. She brings extensive experience in supporting countries improve the efficiency of their health information systems and civil registration and vital statistics systems to monitor population health outcomes, trends and health inequalities, and to optimize health system strategic planning processes and allocation/tracking of resources. Dr Siyam will serve as WHO’s South-East Asia Regional Office Unit Head.

Mrs Deepthi Sumanasena is a commissioner general of Ayurveda, Department of Ayurveda, Ministry of Health and Mass Media, Sri Lanka.
She has over 11 years of extensive experience in the administrative field of the government sector. Throughout her career, Mrs Sumanasena has held significant positions, including Assistant Commissioner of Labour and Deputy Commissioner of Labour (Acting). She has also been the Commissioner of Labour in the Department of Labour.
Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Science from the University of Ruhuna and a Master of Arts from the University of Kelaniya, complemented by a Master of Public Policy from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Japan. With strong knowledge of government procedures and a focus on public administration and service delivery, Mrs Sumanasena is proficient in documentation, records management and policy implementation, all while maintaining confidentiality and integrity in handling sensitive information.

Dr Saketh Ram Thrigulla, a Research Officer (Ayurveda) at CCRAS-National Institute of Indian Medical Heritage, Hyderabad, is a leading figure in integrating ICT solutions with AYUSH systems.
Holding a Bachelor of Ayurvedic Medicine and Surgery, MD and PhD in Dravyaguna, Dr Thrigulla is a CCRAS Young Scientist Awardee (2018). His significant contributions include developing the Ayurveda Encyclopedia and e-Samhitas, and spearheading standardized Ayurveda Terminologies and National Ayurveda Morbidity Codes for the Ministry of Ayush. He actively contributed towards the development of research portals and an IT backbone system for the Ministry of Ayush.
Internationally, Dr Thrigulla has played a key role in the WHO International Terminologies of Ayurveda and the creation of the Traditional Medicine chapter for the International Classification of Diseases 11th Revision. He also serves as a Topic Driver for Artificial Intelligence in Traditional Domain for the ITU/WHO AI4Health Focus Group. With 70+ peer-reviewed publications, his expertise spans Ayurveda, ICT, bioinformatics and network pharmacology.

Professor Sivarama Prasad Vinjamury, MD (Ayurveda), DACM, MPH, teaches Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda at the Southern California University of Health and Sciences (SCU). He is the Assistant Director of the Eastern Medicine Department and Director of Integrative and Family Health Services at SCU Health. He provides acupuncture and Ayurvedic medicine services at the University Health Center, Whittier.

Professor Vinjamury has over 30 years of clinical experience in integrating Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine and western diagnostic methods to evaluate, assess and treat patients. He is also involved in clinical research in Complementary and Integrative Medicine. He has presented papers at several national and international conferences and also published many articles on Complementary and Integrative Medicine topics in peer-reviewed journals. He served as expert for WHO on many Traditional Medicine projects.

Ms Teh Li Yin is a pharmacist and heads the Policy and Development Section, Traditional and Complementary Medicine (T&CM) Division, Ministry of Health Malaysia. She obtained her Bachelor of Pharmacy from Universiti Sains Malaysia and a Master of Community Health Science from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, specializing in hospital management and health economics.
With over 10 years of experience across state and district public hospitals, public health clinics and health administration, Ms Teh has led key national initiatives, including the enforcement planning and regulations drafting for the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Act (2012–2016). She was also project lead for Malaysia’s T&CM Blueprint (Health Care) and T&CM Blueprint (Economic & Sociocultural) under the 11th Malaysia Plan (2016–2020).
She serves as one of Malaysia’s Traditional and Complementary Medicine focal points in ASEAN, is an alternate member of the Malaysian T&CM Council and contributes to national and regional committees strengthening T&CM regulation, integration, collaboration and sustainable development.