He is one of the few scholars with research spanning across clinical, public health, and policy aspects of Integrative Medicine. He envisions evidence-based integration of conventional and complementary healthcare by promoting rigorous research, policy advocacy, and quality education locally, nationally, and internationally. He has published more than 150 articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals, and ranked at the top 1.84% amongst all researchers in the category of Complementary & Alternative Medicine globally, according to the updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators (PloS Biology 18.10 (2020): e3000918). He is subsequently ranked as the 2% top-cited scientists worldwide in 2021 (doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.5).