Our Vision

“To revitalize Indian medical heritage”

Through creative applications of traditional health sciences for enhancing the quality of health care in rural and urban India and globally.

Our Mission

To demonstrate the contemporary relevance of Indian Medical Heritage by designing and implementing innovative programs on a size and scale that will have societal impact.

The five thrust areas of I-AIM are:-


• Contribution to the self-reliance and health security of millions of rural and urban households and communities through green health.

• Original contributions to the world of medicine from its rich materia-medica, pharmacy, pharmacology, clinical practice and basic concepts of health and disease.

• Conservation of threatened natural resources in use by Indian Systems of Medicine

• Generate well trained human resources with knowledge and skills to disseminate the traditional health sciences both in India and globally.

• Creation of traditional knowledge inspired enterprises to provide goods and services to the community, that benefit in holistic ways

Core Objectives of I-AIM

• To engage in fundamental and clinical research that uncovers the theoretical foundations of Ayurveda and promotes Good Clinical Management (GCM)

• To engage in high priority, trans-disciplinary research that bridges Ayurveda with biomedicine, life sciences, engineering, pharmaceutics and the social sciences, art & culture and build new paradigms, credible standards, products, processes, technologies and communication strategies.

• To design and demonstrate conservation strategies, in order to conserve threatened species and natural resources used by the Indian medical heritage

• To restore the age old symbiotic relationships between the community based Prakrit traditions of Ayurveda with its present day institutionalized forms, in order to enhance health security of millions of rural & urban households.

• To design and implement innovative, IT aided, educational programs to generate human resources at undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral levels and through a range of short-term courses for folk healers and lay persons

• To design and implement strategic outreach programs of creative applications of the traditional health sciences, for widespread dissemination which can impact health security of rural and urban communities