For generations, billions of people have sought healing through traditional medicine while the formal institutions of global health science looked elsewhere. The World Health Organization has now released a ten-year research roadmap — shaped in part by commitments from 27 nations — to close an evidence gap so wide that less than one percent of global health research funding has ever addressed it. The agenda is not merely academic; governments are already making coverage, regulatory, and workforce decisions about traditional medicine, often without the evidence to guide them wisely. What unfold