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Ref.No. [Initiator]
JPN-54 [WPRO]
Status
Active
Title of the centre:
  WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine

Director / Head: 
  Professor Mosaburo Kainuma
 




Institution:
  Department of Japanese Oriental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences
  University of Toyama
Address:
  2630 Sugitani
  930-0194
 
Town:
  Toyama
Country:
  JAPAN
Region:
  WPRO
Phone:
  (81-76) 434 7393
Fax:
  (81-76) 434 0366
Date of Designation:
  23/Apr/1988
Last Redesignation:
  19/Mar/2024
Expiry:
  19/Mar/2028
Terms of Reference:
  1. To inform it’s work towards improving T&CM knowledge and information on the contribution of traditional medicine's methods of diagnosis to evidence-based technical innovation. 
  2. As per WHO’s request, providing technical inputs that may inform WHO’s efforts towards improving evidence-based practice, by sharing methods on producing qualified evidence, focusing on chronic conditions among older adults. 
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Subjects:
  1. Traditional medicine 
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Types of activity:
  1. Research 
  2. Product development (guidelines; manual; methodologies; etc.) 
  3. Collection and collation of information 
WHO Outputs:
  1.1.1 - Countries enabled to provide high-quality, people-centred health services, based on primary health care strategies and comprehensive essential service packages
 
 
Responsible Officer:
  HAN Eunkyung
Phone:
  89849
Email:
  ehan@who.int

Technical Counterpart:
  BANA Aditi
Phone:
  +41 22 791 2760
Email:
  banaa@who.int
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
  Link to eWork