Building Bridges Toward Common Goals - A Call for Greater Collaboration Between Public Health and Integrative, Complementary and Traditional Health Providers.

Margaret D Whitley, Michele Maiers, Daniel F Gallego-Pérez, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Ian D Coulter, Patricia M Herman

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Article in Community health equity research & policy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Margaret D WhitleyRAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0530-1369

Michele MaiersRAND Center for Collaborative Research in Complementary and Integrative Health, Santa Monica, CA, USA.

Daniel F Gallego-PérezProgram on Integrative Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.

Bernadette Boden-AlbalaDepartment of Health, Society, and Behavior, Program in Public Health, and Department of Neurology, School of Medicine, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA.

Ian D CoulterRAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.

Patricia M HermanRAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, USA.

Funding

RAND REACH CenterU24AT012549 · NCCIH · RAND CORPORATION · PI COULTER, IAN DOUGLASS, HERMAN, PATRICIA M · 2023 to 2025

$6.2M

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary makes the case for greater collaboration between public health professionals and integrative, complementary and traditional health practitioners (ICTHP). Previous partnerships have been successful, and more such collaborative work is needed to help overcome division, enhance the health workforce, and move all involved toward shared goals. ICTHP providers may be uniquely able to work across ideological differences and engage individuals and communities who are less trusting of public health, including those who are vaccine hesitant. Diverse partnerships can be difficult to maintain, but the application of equitable processes may aid their success. In the face of highly complex public health challenges, partnerships with ICTHP are critical.

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Complementary TherapiesCooperative BehaviorGoalsHealth PersonnelIntegrative MedicinePublic HealthHumanscollaborationcomplementary therapiespublic health practicetraditional medicine

Identifiers

PMID37587566

DOI10.1177/2752535X231195522

PMCPMC10869632

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