NCCIH’s Strategic Framework

The field of complementary and integrative health encompasses a large and diverse array of practices, products, and disciplines. To best focus its research investment, NCCIH’s strategic plan outlines a framework of three scientific and two cross-cutting objectives.

Scientific Objectives

• Advance fundamental science and methods development.
• Improve care for hard-to-manage symptoms.
• Foster health promotion and disease prevention.

Cross-Cutting Objectives

• Enhance the complementary and integrative health research workforce.
• Disseminate objective evidence-based information on complementary and integrative health interventions.

The next page describes these objectives in more detail.