About Us
Global Alliance for
Traditional Healers AdvancementVision
“To build a nationally connected and globally recognized ecosystem that preserves, protects, validates, and advances India's rich traditional healing knowledge while ensuring dignity, recognition, and rightful participation of traditional healers.”
Preserve. Protect. Validate.
Advance traditional knowledge
Mission
Documentation and Preservation of Traditional Knowledge
Protect Traditional Knowledge : Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), traditional knowledge protection, biodiversity conservation, and Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS).
Scientific Documentation, Research, and Validation : Scientific documentation, research, and validation of traditional healing practices in collaboration with researchers and academic institutions.
Empower Traditional Healers : Create platforms like Bhartiya Ethical AI for traditional healers to share their knowledge, experiences, and perspectives and participate meaningfully in national discussions.
Build Networks : Establish strong linkages among traditional healers, researchers, universities, AYUSH experts, policymakers, legal experts, and other stakeholders.
Promote Responsible Advancement : Support the ethical transmission, recognition, and advancement of traditional healing knowledge for future generations and wider societal benefit.
Global Recognition : Promote appropriate national and international recognition of India's traditional healing heritage through collaborative initiatives such as Ethical AI Bhartiya GPT.
About Us
GATHA – Global Alliance for Traditional Healers Advancement is a national platform dedicated to bringing together traditional healers, knowledge holders, researchers, academicians, AYUSH experts, legal and Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) experts, biodiversity and Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) experts, policymakers, and other stakeholders to strengthen the recognition, preservation, documentation, and responsible advancement of India's traditional healing heritage.
India possesses a rich and diverse legacy of traditional healing knowledge that has been developed and transmitted through generations. Much of this knowledge continues to exist within communities and among traditional healers, often through oral traditions and practical experience. However, the absence of systematic documentation, limited scientific validation, inadequate awareness of IPR and benefit-sharing mechanisms, and changing social and environmental conditions pose significant challenges to its preservation and responsible transmission.
The initiative seeks to place traditional healers and knowledge holders at the centre of the dialogue, recognizing their experience and contribution while creating meaningful connections with scientific institutions, universities, researchers, policymakers, and other relevant stakeholders.
GATHA is envisioned as a collaborative platform for documentation, preservation, protection, scientific validation, networking, and wider recognition of India's traditional healing knowledge.
Through dialogue, collaboration, responsible documentation, and knowledge-sharing, the initiative aims to contribute towards a stronger national ecosystem in which traditional healing knowledge is preserved with integrity, protected with appropriate mechanisms, studied responsibly, and advanced with the meaningful participation of its knowledge holders.