Director’s Messages
Addressing Pain Requires Understanding How We Heal
March 27, 2024
How does pain occur? How does it go away? Finding answers to these questions matters to the more than 50 million adults in the United States who suffer from chronic pain. Read more
Latest Messages From the Director
Let’s Leverage All of Us To Learn More About Health and Disease in Diverse Populations
February 19, 2024
In a new commentary in Nature Medicine, all of us in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) leadership invite all of you in the research community to take advantage of the extraordinary resources made available by NIH’s All of Us Research Program. Like several other population-based programs, All of Us is collecting extensive genomic and health data from large numbers of volunteers. Read more
Looking to the Past and Future in NCCIH’s 25th Anniversary Year
January 24, 2024
Each year at this time, I like to look forward to the coming year at the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) and review the year that just ended. Read more
A Whole Person Focus on Heart Disease
January 9, 2024
As we have explored factors that influence the health of the whole person, it has become increasingly evident that interrelationships—between different body organs and systems, between genetics and environment, and between the mind and body—are crucial in both health and disease. Read more
Past Messages From the Director
- A Symphony of Experts Comes Together To Discuss Research on Music and Health
November 28, 2023 - REACHing the Next Generation of Clinician-Scientists
November 1, 2023 - Assembling the Right Ingredients for Nutrition and Good Health
September 29, 2023 - Article Spotlights an Often-Neglected Part of the Body
September 27, 2023 - Including Spirituality Into a Fuller Picture of Research on Whole Person Health
August 18, 2023 - Funding Opportunity for Research on Myofascial Pain Biomarkers
August 8, 2023 - Join Us for an NIH HEAL Initiative Workshop on Whole Joint Health
June 29, 2023 - Gathering Data Points for Acupuncture Research
June 14, 2023 - Managing Stress: A Common Thread in Improving Your Health
April 27, 2023 - Highlighting the Pain Management Collaboratory on the NIH Director's Blog
March 28, 2023 - Considering Health Where It Starts—In Childhood
February 6, 2023 - 2022’s Accomplishments Set the Stage for What’s Ahead in 2023
January 11, 2023 - Spotlight on Pain Illustrates the Imperative of Finding and Using Diverse Tools
December 16, 2022 - Asking the Right Questions on Pain
November 18, 2022 - Imaging That Helps Us Build a Picture of Whole Person Health
October 25, 2022 - Entering a New Chapter in Understanding Myofascial Pain
October 6, 2022