UTS Sydney's Australian Research Centre in Complementary and Integrative Medicine (ARCCIM) has been awarded $1.5 million in funding from the Blackmores Foundation, Bioceuticals and the Jacka Foundation.
Funding will support two new research fellowships led by Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Australian Research Council Professorial Future Fellow, Jon Adams.
Half of the $1.5m research investment will come from recent US Natural Products Hall of Fame inductee Marcus Blackmore's personal philanthropic trust, the Blackmore Foundation.
"This new support will help us grow critical and rigorous, public health research into the opportunities and challenges of therapies like naturopathy," Adams said, adding that it would investigate why and how people use naturopathy and other complementary medicines as well as how naturopathic practitioners communicate with mainstream hospital and primary care systems.
"These and other questions are important as we face major challenges that include an ageing population, chronic illness and a health system under stress," said BioCeuticals md Eyal Wolstin.
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