The National Institute of Complementary Medicine

Western Sydney University’s NICM Health Research Institute (NICM HRI) is Australia’s leader in integrative and complementary medicine research and policy. Seed funded by the Commonwealth Government and NSW Government, NICM HRI plays a key national role in ensuring Australians have access to reliable evidence on complementary medicines and treatments in wide use. 

Our research effort is concentrated in four clinical clusters:

• Healthy hearts: preventing and treating cardiovascular and metabolic disorders.
• Healthy minds: preventing and treating neurocognitive and mental health disorders.
• Healthy women: promoting sexual and reproductive health.
• Healthy lives through cancer: staying healthy through the cancer journey.