Establishing a Centre of Excellence for
promoting and validating qualifying
programmes
for registered professional associations in complementary and
traditional medicine, nationally and internationally
| To promote nationally and internationally the crucial healthcare role played by evidence-based complementary/traditional medical practices in helping to reduce the high incidence of chronic health disorders for which Malaysia and the ASEAN countries spend more than 70% of their annual health budgets. | |
| To support the World Health Organization’s effort in reducing premature deaths by 25% in the next five years from chronic disorders associated with poor dietary/lifestyle habits . | |
| To offer accredited(particularly on-line) health empowering training courses on management of chronic health disorders on research evidence accumulated to date. | |
| To establish global collaborations with tertiary institutes/universities that promote evidence-based complementary/natural medicine. |
Leading practitioners in this treatment modality help the
ICTM in the development of cutting-edge and evidence-based
know-how in
helping to address some of the more serious
chronic health disorders that contribute to some 40 millions
pre-mature deaths
globally identified by WHO.
ICTM holds regular public seminars and forums in sharing
clinical knowledge on managing the common chronic health
disorders linked to poor dietary choices and unhealth
lifestyle habits.
| Establishing research and academic networking with national and global tertiary institutions that promote the use of complementary, natural, or traditional plant-based therapies. | |
| Assisting local and foreign professional associations in establishing qualifying schemes for their members who offer adjunctive treatment for chronic health disorders. | |
| Linking professional associations with internationally-recognizes standard of training to tertiary institutions/universities offering post-graduate degree training/ research. |
| To collaborate with both local and foreign institutes of higher learning in promoting quality research on the role of dietary and lifestyle habits in promoting the incidence of common chronic disorders such as tumor/cancer growth, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and immune dysfunction. Collectively, these non-communicable disease account for more than 80% of global annual pre-mature deaths (WHO Collaborating Centre for Self-Care) |
| To collaborate with leading local and internationally-recognised practitioners of complementary and natural medicine in providing cutting-edge and evidence-based treatment consultation directly to consumers. | |
| To offer access to downloable summaries of scientific studies on management of dietary/lifestyle-linked chronic disorders. | |
| To promote AI-powered non-invasive pre-diagnoses of chronic disorders with feedback linked to mobile phones using 5G internet facilities. |