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The WHO Evidence to Policy and Impact Unit (Research for Health Department) and the Evidence Unit of the WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine are are hosting a collaborative side event at the 2024 Prince Mahidol Award Conference (PMAC) exploring the current state of Evidence-informed policy-making (EIDM) institutionalization globally and the implications of its intersections with Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine (TCIM) in fostering inclusivity, health equity, epistemic justice, and decolonial global health governance. The side event will explore potential mechanisms (infrastructure, conditions, frameworks) for enhancing the use of evidence in global policy development toward realizing TCIMs contribution to health and wellbeing.

The use of evidence in policy and decision-making has exponentially grown, and it is now considered standard practice within health systems. However, the gap between research and practice persists. The WHO has advanced initiatives that promote the institutionalization of Evidence-informed decision/policy-making (EIDM), such theEvidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet), and tools, such as theWHO checklist for supporting the routine use of evidence during the policy-making process. The checklist, currently pilot-tested to assess its validity and feasibility, highlights six domains (governance; standards and routinized processes; leadership and commitment; resources and capacity-building/strengthening; partnership, collective action, and support; and culture), and five processes of EIDM institutionalization.

TheGujarat Declarationof thefirst WHO Global Summit on Traditional Medicine(17-18 August 2023, Gandhinagar, India) articulated an action agenda including a focus on research and evidence. It proposed making appropriate use of existing and new research, evidence syntheses and knowledge translation principles and WHO initiatives. It also recommended capacity strengthening to produce, translate and use TCIM research and Indigenous knowledges and supporting the evidence-based integration of TCIM in national health policies and systems based on highest quality research.

This side event, a first step in advancing toward the evidence-related proposals of the Gujarat Declaration, seeks to assess the advances and challenges of integrating TCIM in EIDM institutionalization globally and the needed conditions to strengthen it.

Further information about the side event on the PMAC website:

https://pmac2024.com/activity/73/sidemeetingOnsite/detail

Welcoming and introduction: Tanja Kuchenmller, Unit Head, Evidence to Policy and Impact Unit, Research for Health Department, Science Division, WHO.

Session A. Overview of WHO-led EIDM initiatives, and country-level examples.

Session Chair:Laurenz Mahlanza-Langer, Executive Director, Pan-African Collective for Evidence (PACE), South Africa.

Session B. Global situation assessment / Critical analysis of TCIM-related knowledge translation and TCIM incorporation in EDIM processes.

Session Chair:Amie Steel, Associate Professor, Australian Research Consortium in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

Session C. Participatory Workshop proposing next steps to address known research and practice gaps for TCIMs inclusion in EIDM

Workshop Co-Facilitators:Mukdarut Bangpan, Associate Professor in Evidence-Informed Policy and Development, University College London, United Kingdom. Amie Steel, Associate Professor, Australian Research Consortium in Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Daniel F. Gallego-Perez, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

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