The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) International is a non-profit organisation with a mission to safeguard and promote natural and sustainable approaches to regenerating and managing human health worldwide.
Our mission
Our vision
How we achieve this
We are small tightly knit team, focused on our mission to promote and protect our right to sustainable natural health around the world – by working with nature, not against it.
Robert Verkerk
Founder, Executive & Scientific Director
Meleni Aldridge
Executive Coordinator, Director
Paul Harris
Chair, Financial/Administrative Director
Melissa Smith
Outreach & Communication Officer
Mike Abbott
Head of ANH Media Unit
Marta Tofield
Digital Media Designer
Lisa Taylor
Finance Manager
The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 2002 in the UK by acclaimed sustainability scientist, Robert Verkerk PhD.
About us
The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH) International is a non-profit organisation with a mission to safeguard and promote natural and sustainable approaches to regenerating and managing human health worldwide.
Our mission
To protect and promote natural, regenerative and sustainable approaches to health and care. We support approaches to self-care and health care that work with, rather than against, nature.
Our vision
A world in which all individuals are able to enjoy their fundamental right and freedom to choose natural health as their overriding approach to the management or optimisation of their health and those for whom they care, consistent with the principles of rational science and the just rule of law. There should be no negative or undue interference by governments or corporations in the ability of individuals to exercise these fundamental rights, particularly when such interference involves concealing or misrepresenting relevant information, or seeks to gain power or influence for their own benefit.
How we achieve this
We help inspire and enable people to adopt natural and sustainable approaches to health care by promoting more diverse, natural and sustainable health choices, encouraging appropriate actions, evaluating and curating relevant research and and providing education (C.A.R.E.).
We accomplish our mission through a unique application of ‘good science’ and ‘good law’.
We work with a vertical cross-section of interests in and outside the natural health sector, from citizens, to doctors and other practitioners, scientists, lawyers, academics, retailers and manufacturers.
Meet the team
We are small tightly knit team, focused on our mission to promote and protect our right to sustainable natural health around the world – by working with nature, not against it.
Our history
The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 2002 in the UK by acclaimed sustainability scientist, Robert Verkerk PhD.
The organisation was established initially to challenge unjust restrictions on access to natural sources of vitamins and minerals in food supplements by European citizens as the result of disproportionate EU laws. ANH successfully took a lawsuit through the High Court in London (2003) with the case being expedited to the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg in 2004. ANH-Intl has since expanded its remit substantially to include many other aspects of natural health and health system sustainability. Today, our work is segmented into seven key areas, namely food, health, lifestyle, sustainability, natural products, informed choice and regulatory.
ANH-Intl’s quest to help more people optimise their health by working with, rather than against nature, means we engage with a broad range of issues relating to health and disease prevention, especially those involving dietary and lifestyle modification. We work to help health systems to transition from their current pre-occupation with the management of ‘downstream’ diseases to ‘upstream’ approaches that maintain and regenerate health. We support the increased adoption of scientifically validated, natural and sustainable approaches to health creation, health regeneration and disease prevention, taking into account the needs and choices of specific individuals, social and cultural groups.
The threat of uncertainty, as well as regulatory and other pressures, including from large food and pharmaceutical lobbies, continues to limit freedom of choice in the field of natural health. ANH-Intl advocates for properly informed consent, the right for citizen choice in healthcare and the right to practice a diverse range of modalities incorporating natural health. It supports individual empowerment, medical autonomy, the rule of law, and respect for, and the protection of, the natural environment.
Our international office is based in Chilworth, UK, while our US base (www.anh-usa.org) operates out of Edinburg, Virginia. As an international alliance, we collaborate with a diverse cross-section of natural and environmental interests around the world, including scientists, lawyers, medical doctors, other health professionals, politicians, companies and, above all, citizens.