Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare launched the AYUSH-ICMR Advanced Centre for Integrated Health Research in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He also announced other mega joint initiatives between the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of AYUSH which included Multicentre clinical trial on Anaemia and the launch of Indian Public Health Standards (IPHS) for AYUSH healthcare facilities. 

The objectives of the AYUSH-ICMR Advanced Centre for Integrative Research are to harness the mutual understanding and research environment between the different systems of medicine leading to Integrative Health Research; and to identify priority areas where the approach of integrative medicine may have potential and conduct integrative research in these priority areas to generate robust evidence.

Four AIIMS which will host these advanced centres: AIIMS Delhi (Advanced Centre for Integrative Health Research in Gastro-intestinal Disorders; and Advanced Centre for Integrative Health Research in Women and Child Health); AIIMS Jodhpur (Advanced Centre for Integrative Health Research in Geriatric Health); AIIMS Nagpur (Advanced Centre for Integrative Health Research in Cancer Care); and AIIMS Rishikesh (Advanced Centre for Integrative Health Research in Geriatric Health)