Center for Complementary and Integrative Health

The Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (CCIH) , an autonomous academic center was established in 2016 at School of Health Sciences (SHS), Savitribai Phule Pune University in accordance with the WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy 2014-2023 and National Health Policy 2017 of India. The Objectives of CCIH is to encourage the traditional holistic health system in policy analysis, advocacy and translation, high quality scientific research, teaching and training and collaborative consortia. The CCIH is actively undertaking constant, consistent, and continuous academic and research activities to attain its mission.

AYUSH Center of Excellence:

Recognizing the important role of CCIH, the Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India awarded Center of Excellence status with a grant for a period of 3 years. The activities achieved by AYUSH-CoE under the umbrella of CCIH, include building up a collaborative research network of premium institutes from India and abroad to strengthen interdisciplinary research in AYUSH; capacity building and human resource development and development of strategies based on policy and analysis. (Learn more)

Ramkumar Rathi Patanjali Yoga Chair:

Savitribai Phule Pune University has established Ramkumar Rathi Patanjali Yoga Chair (RRPYC) at CCIH, School of Health Sciences on 3rd October 2018. The objective of RRPYC is to promote scholarship and thought leadership, research, meta research, education and practice of Yoga. (Learn more)

Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine:

The CCIH hosts an editorial office of the Journal of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine (J-AIM). It is a platform for collaborative research for integrative medicine. The J-AIM is an internationally circulated open access official publication of the World Ayurveda Foundation (WAF) and Trans-Disciplinary University (TDU), Bengaluru, published by Elsevier, established in 2011. (Learn more)

Winter School on Transdisciplinary Research:

The CCIH-AYUSH-CoE team organised a Winter School for 30 participants from both traditional and modern sciences. The Winter School was a one-month residential (15th Nov. 2018 to 15th Dec. 2018) program funded by the Department of Health Research (DHR), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and SPPU. Winter school was designed with a unique blend of Gurukul and University systems, followed by innovative pedagogy methods comprising group interaction, panel discussion lab visits, field visits, and fun and learn activity.

Training modules:

Evidence Based Medicine and Integrative Health
Drug Discovery Sciences
Nutritional Biochemistry
Introduction to Molecular Biology and Ayurvedic Biology
Complementary Medicine and Public Health
Systems Biology
Epidemiology and Pharmacoepidemiology
Biostatistics and Quantitative Methods

Highlights of the DHR Winter School 2018

Courses | Conferences | Workshops | Webinars | Saturday Club | Student Fellowship Program

SPPU Initiatives

Recognizing the active role of CCIH in fulfilling its objectives, Savitribai Phule Pune University provided an additional space for CCIH activities housed at ISHS and initiated the construction of a new building.
It also provided additional support to access the Central Instrumentation Facility.
The e- content development and learning Innovation center (eCDLIC) of SPPU has extended the support for development of e-content for CCIH activities.
SPPU created and advertised three positions of Assistant Professor as an Institutional contribution.
SPPU executed the “AYUSH PhD” scheme from the AYUSH Ministry and Research Fellowship Programs and created a Board of Studies for AYUSH research.