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{{Organization
|OrganizationName=National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
|OrganizationType=Independent Agencies (Sub-organization)
|Mission=NCCIH researches complementary health interventions to define their safety and role in improving health care decisions.
|ParentOrganization=National Institutes of Health
|TopOrganization=Department of Health and Human Services
|CreationLegislation=Public Law 105-277 (Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999)
|Budget=$149.3 million (FY 2023)
|OrganizationExecutive=Director
|Services=Research funding; Information dissemination; Research training; Education on complementary health approaches
|HeadquartersLocation=38.99918, -77.09819
|HeadquartersAddress=9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
|Website=https://www.nccih.nih.gov
}}
{{Short description|US government agency funding alternative medicine research}}

{{Infobox organization
|logo = NIH-NCCIH-logo.svg
| name                = National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
| abbreviation        = NCCIH
| formerly            = National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)<br />Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM)
| formation           = 1991
| type                = [[Governmental organization]]
| purpose             = 
| headquarters        = [[Bethesda, Maryland]]
| location_country    = United States
| language            = English
| leader_title        = Director
| leader_name         = [[Helene Langevin]], MD
| parent_organization = [[National Institutes of Health]]
| affiliations        = [[United States Public Health Service]]
| budget              = 
| website             = {{URL|nccih.nih.gov/}}
| remarks             = 
}}
The '''National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health''' ('''NCCIH''') is a United States government agency which explores [[alternative medicine|complementary and alternative medicine]] (CAM). It was initially created in 1991 as the '''Office of Alternative Medicine''' ('''OAM'''), and renamed the '''National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine''' ('''NCCAM''') before receiving its current name in 2014.<ref name="name_change" /> NCCIH is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH) within the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services]].

NCCIH has been criticized for funding and marketing pseudoscientific medicine.<ref name=SSOAGGRAM/><ref name=london/>