The Global Integrator Blog by John Weeks for GAHMJ

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Three long-time colleagues recently made me a wonderful offer that met with a rising personal area of interest: the global movement for integrative health and medicine.

This has been gestating in me particularly since 2012 when I was invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to the first of two meetings in Hong Kong to serve on working groups for the now published WHO traditional medicine strategy: 2014-2023. 

Here's the story: Michele Mittelman, RN, MPH, the co-founder and CEO of the peer-reviewed and indexed  Global Advances in Health and Medicine (GAHMJ) shared that she and GAHMJ's co-editors Mary Jo Kreitzer, RN, PhD and Robert Saper, MD, MPH wanted me to work with them. I've been a big fan of the Global Advances' mission since the beginning: whole systems, integrative, interprofessional, case reports and of course global. What's not to like?  GAHMJ has produced multiple special issues on critical themes for the movement.

Co-Founder and CEO Mittelman: inviting the opportunity

I said 'Yes!" I now send you this heads-up as many of you may find peering into these global dimensions of our work via this open-access resource fun, fascinating and useful.

One piece of my new work is a regular column for the GAHMJ journal. Fun challenge. The more significant is an 8-10 times per month Global Integrator Blog for Global Advances' expanding web portal. Here are features:

• The 3 most recent blogs are always posted here on the GAHMJ home page.
• A monthly Global Integrator Round-up  (like the Integrator Round-up) skims recent posts and takes you easily to each month's headlines.
  
• A Quick Links feature offers monthly connection to other global developments: here are 32 one-liners from January 2015. These link to traditional, alternative and integrative activities in Ethiopia, Canada, Thailand, Gambia, Britain, Russia, India, United States, China and elsewhere.
  
• You can sign up the GAHMJ RSS feed feed and for GAHMJ E-Alerts.