Ministry of Ayush and ICMR Sign MoU to Promote Integrative Health Research
The Ministry of Ayush and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote and collaborate on integrative health research. The cooperation will focus on identified areas of national importance in healthcare to promote high impact research to generate evidence utilizing modern scientific methods. The MoU will also strengthen research capacity through training of Ayush researchers.
The MoU will jointly establish Ayush-ICMR Centers for Advanced Research in Integrative Health at all AIIMS with co-funding. The MoU will facilitate looking at the possibility of inclusion of research on Integrative Medicine in the "National ethical guidelines for biomedical and health research involving human participants" by ICMR-DHR. A joint working group will be established to explore further areas of collaboration and work on deliverables, formulate and implement joint research projects/programs and allow joint supervision of the activities. The cooperation between the Ministry of Ayush and the Minister of Health and Family Welfare was also discussed in the fifth inter-ministerial convergence meeting.