The World Traditional Medicine Forum was established in September 2015 and registered in the Netherlands. The forum’s fundamental goal is to “unite traditional medicine professionals from around the world and comprehensively promote the development of traditional medicine.” It has brought together over 10,000 traditional medicine colleagues from more than 80 countries and regions on five continents, and has developed into an internationally influential organization in the field of traditional medicine.
The forum has held the 1st and 2nd World Traditional Medicine Conferences in Argentina and the United States, respectively. It also co-hosted the 3rd and 4th World Traditional Medicine Conferences (online) in 2021 and 2022, and the 5th Traditional Medicine Conference (Xiamen, China) in 2023 with the World Health Organization