Welcome to the Hopkins Latin American Traditional Medicine Research Society (HLATMRS), the first such organization to be established for John Hopkins researchers, students, and other interested people.
Mission: To promote interest in, and research on, Latin American Traditional Medicine (LATM); to make the benefits of LATM available to the world; and to preserve the indigenous and traditional knowledge rights and benefits of the local Latin American people.
Membership open to: Hopkins students, faculty, physicians, employees, alumni, and others who interested in Latin American Traditional Medicine and the promotion of research on LATM.
Objectives:
1. Identify all LATM herbal recipes and medicinal plants that have ever been used traditionally for the treatment of any disease or disorder in any couuntry of Latin America.
2. To create a database of Latin American traditional medicine recipes and medicinal plants so that researchers worldwide can do research on these therapies to determine their effectiveness, specify optimum formulations, and do other beneficial research related to LATM.
3. To identify all Latin American bio-medical periodicals and journals that are currently being published, and that have been published in the past, but are no longer being published. A large number are also listed in Ulrich's Periodical database, but there may be others.
4. To translate all of the titles of the articles in the above journals into Spanish, Portuguese, and English, (whatever the case may be) and make a title, author, and subject index, so that researchers worldwide can see what biomedical research has been published in Latin American biomedical journals and other periodicals on specific subjects.
5. To create a mechanism whereby articles in Latin American biomedical journals that are desired by researchers can be easily obtained;
6. To identify all medical schools, universities, research organizations, societies, and other biomedical associations in Latin America for collaboration purposes;
7. To establish a newsletter to report the activities of this organization and its members. (This has been established: click here.)
8. To establish an indigenous and traditional knowledge rights protocol, agreed upon by local peoples and national governments for the preservation of those rights and benefits.