Research in Integrative Health

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) is one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the primary public research funding source for complementary and integrative health researchers. NCCIH will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. This session will present an overview of NCCIH’s current strategic plan and priorities for research. Major new programs led by NCCIH will be described including: 1) NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory; 2) NCCIH’s role leading two aspects of the NIH Helping End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) Initiative; and 3) NIH’s Music and Health Initiative. NCCIH funds a range of research projects from basic and fundamental science, mechanistic studies to understand how interventions work, and clinical intervention studies to determine the efficacy or effectiveness of interventions for specific conditions. Highlights of recent findings from the NCCIH portfolio of research in each of these areas will be presented. Another aspect of NCCIH’s mission is to provide objective information to the public about complementary and integrative health approaches. To accomplish this, NCCIH has numerous resources for the public and health care providers available at https://nccih.nih.gov. Finally, the session will provide an overview of how potential applicants can find the appropriate open funding opportunity for the research they would like to conduct.