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WHO Director-General's remarks at the closing of the Second Global Summit on Traditional Medicine
2025.12.19
https://www.who.int/news-room/speeches/item/who-director-general-s-remarks-at-the-closing-of-the-second-global-summit-on-traditional-medicine-19-december-2025
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Glossary

1. “One Earth, One Health”: 원 어스, 원 헬스; 2025년 세계 요가의 날 테마
2. Ministry of Ayush : 아유쉬 부; 현 인도 정부의 전통의약 규제관청
3. WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre in Jamnagar : 인도 잠나가르 WHO 글로벌전통의학센터(GTMC)
4. Delhi Commitment : 전통의학 델리 선언
5. WHO Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025-2034 : 글로벌 전통의약 전략 2025-2034
6. WHO Global Traditional Medicine Library: WHO 디지털 전통의학 도서관

Script

Your Excellency, your vision of “One Earth, One Health” encapsulates the principles of traditional medicine:
Balance between people and nature;
An emphasis on prevention over cure,
And health as a shared responsibility.
It aligns powerfully with WHO’s mission to promote health equity, sustainability, and resilience.
Under your leadership, India has helped to elevate traditional medicine in the global health agenda, and it’s now clearly on the global map.
From the establishment of a dedicated Ministry of Ayush, to the creation of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Centre in Jamnagar, India has shown that tradition and innovation, heritage and science can advance together.
Through its centuries-old Ayush systems, India has shown the world that traditional wisdom and modern science are not inconsistent, but complementary.

Over the past three days, voices from more than one hundred countries have come together – scientists and practitioners, Ministers and Indigenous leaders, innovators and communities.
You have come from different traditions and different systems, but with one shared purpose: to bridge ancient tradition and modern science.
Together, you have shown that traditional medicine is not a relic of the past.
It is not an alternative at the margins.
It is a living science, a shared heritage, and an important element of universal health coverage, resilient health systems, and sustainable development.
Traditional medicine can help to address many of the threats to health of our modern world: the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases; inequitable access to health services; and climate change.
It can help to support care that is person-centred, culturally grounded, and holistic.

Through the Delhi Commitment, countries have agreed not only on why traditional medicine matters – but on how to act.
We have agreed to strengthen the evidence base, using rigorous, ethical, and pluralistic research that respects whole systems and Indigenous knowledge;
We have agreed to ensure safety, quality, and public trust, through coherent and risk-based regulation;
We have agreed to safeguard biodiversity and traditional knowledge, while respecting cultural heritage, intellectual property, and equitable benefit-sharing;
We have agreed to harness digital technologies and innovation responsibly, to improve access, research, and data generation;
And we have agreed to integrate safe and effective traditional medicine into health systems, especially primary health care, where it delivers clear, evidence-informed value.
These priorities are at the heart of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Strategy 2025 to 2034 – a strategy grounded in science, guided by ethics, and driven by equity and global solidarity.
Today, we also marked a historic step forward with the launch of the WHO Global Traditional Medicine Library.
This Library is far more than a repository of knowledge.
It is a platform of trust.