University of Wisconsin-Madison Osher Center for Integrative Health
University/Academic Institution
University of Wisconsin-Madison Osher Center for Integrative Health
Year Joined: 2025 · United States
As the Osher Center for Integrative Health at the UW-Madison, we continue to provide high quality care to the individuals we serve in our health system and to partner with our specialist colleagues across our organization to expand access to integrative health care. We also have an increased capacity to partner with non-healthcare entities within our University and our community to explore innovative ways to not just treat disease, but to truly understand and help nurture the origins of health in all those we serve. We strive to be leaders in this next phase of the field of Integrative Health—Salutogenic Science. To do this well will require a greater recognition of the impacts of social determinants of health and pervasive barriers to healing such as systemic racism and climate change. We will also continue to raise our awareness and reconcile aspects of the Integrative Health field that are guilty of significant cultural appropriation in order to respect and honor healing traditions from which we have much to learn.
While there is much work to do, we move forward using the same principles that integrative health practitioners use to support healing in individuals—listening deeply first, seeking to understand common goals and then reflecting on how we can best be of service to support health and healing. We look for innovative paths to stimulate the inherent healing response within individuals and the incredible healing potential that arises when the best of our academic institution and communities work together for the well-being of all.