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WHO are we?
The College of Pharmacy, UIC, is one of 19 global
WHO Collaborating Centres for Traditional Medicine associated with the WHO Programme on Traditional Medicine. The Centre was designated in 1981 and is engaged in service and research activities related to the use of traditional medicine (TRM) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in primary health care. It is only one of the two collaborating centres for traditional medicine in the USA and the Region of the Americas (AMRO), with the second centre being located at the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), NIH. Two centres each are located in the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO), European (EURO), and 13 are in the Western Pacific (WPRO) Regions.
