NIH Director's Statement on the Retirement of NCCIH Director Dr. Helene Langevin

Thursday, September 18, 2025

With great appreciation for her contributions to NIH, I’d like to announce that Helene M. Langevin, M.D., director of the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), is retiring from federal service on November 30, 2025. Since taking the role in 2018, Dr. Langevin has spearheaded the concept of whole person health at NCCIH, focusing on integration across physiological systems and positive health processes, such as resilience and health restoration.

As NCCIH director, Dr. Langevin has led several trans-NIH initiatives that placed whole person health at the forefront of NIH’s emerging unified strategy to address the burden of chronic disease in the U.S. This includes the recent funding of the Whole Person Reference Physiome and Coordination Center, led by NCCIH and co-funded by 20 NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices to create a cross-system network map of healthy physiological function. In collaboration with the CDC National Center for Health Statistics, she steered the development of the Whole Person Health Index, which is currently being deployed in the National Health Interview Survey and the All of Us longitudinal cohort.