Forging Strategic Partnerships for a New Era in Tuberculosis Control: China–Gates TB Project Workshop Successfully Convenes in Beijing

To facilitate the successful initation and implementation of the National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control/China CDC–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Cooperation Project (hereinafter referred to as the “China–Gates TB Project”), the National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) convened a project workshop in Beijing on April 8, 2025. The workshop gathered over 50 participants, including officials and expert representatives from the Division of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control of the National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the provincial/municipal CDCs of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, and Hubei, as well as the Chinese Academy of Fiscal Sciences and other relevant organizations.

Advancing Tuberculosis Control and Strengthening Strategic Partnership — A Visit by Gates Foundation Experts to China CDC’s National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention

To further advance the implementation of the National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control/Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Cooperation Project (hereinafter referred to as “the Project”) and to deliberate on the planning and execution strategies for future collaboration, a high-level experts delegation conducted a visit to the National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention (NCTB) at the China CDC on April 1, 2025. The delegation comprised Dr. Peter Baron Piot, Senior Advisor to the Gates Foundation; Professor Heidi Jane Larson from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; and Dr. Huan Shitong, Senior Program Officer at the Gates Foundation’s Beijing Representative Office.

Dr. Caryn Bredenkamp, Regional Manager of the Health, Nutrition, and Population, East Asia and Pacific Region, the World Bank, Visits China CDC

On the morning of April 18, 2025, Prof. Li Qun, Deputy Director General of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), met with a visiting delegation led by Dr. Caryn Bredenkamp, Regional Manager of the Health, Nutrition, and Population, East Asia and Pacific Region of the World Bank, at China CDC’s North Campus.

China CDC and CDA Singapore Launch Senior Expert Exchange Programme

In April 2025, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) and the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA), Singapore officially launched a Senior Expert Exchange Programme under the framework of the MoU of the two organizations signed in August 2024. This programme aims to facilitate the expertise exchange and promote public health collaboration of the two organizations.

Workshop on Development Requirements for the National Pathogen and Vector Surveillance System and Central Laboratory Information System Held in Beijing

To accelerate the informatization of China’s disease prevention and control system, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) convened a workshop on the development requirements for the National Pathogen and Vector Surveillance System and the Central Laboratory Information System in Beijing on March 24, 2025.

Infectious Diseases of Poverty Ranked as a Top Journal in the Discipline of Medicine in the 2025 Journal Classification Table

The 2025 Journal Classification Table was officially released recently. Infectious Diseases of Poverty, affiliated with National Institute of Parasitic Diseases at China CDC (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research), has been ranked in Top 5% (Quartile 1) under the broad category of Medicine Discipline (Top Journal), and in three subcategories—Disciplines of Infectious Diseases, Parasitology, and Tropical Medicine—making it a top-tier journal in the medical field.

China CDC Participates in the First Meeting of the BRICS Network of Public Health Institutions

Director Bu Zhigao of the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute Visits China CDC for In-Depth Exchange on Zoonotic Disease Prevention and Control

Thai Ministry of Public Health Delegation Visits CFETP at China CDC

On the afternoon of February 12, 2025, a 12-member delegation from the Epidemiology Division of the Department of Disease Control, under Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health, led by Director Wichan Bhunyakitikorn, visited the Chinese Field Epidemiology Training Program (CFETP) at the Office of Education and Training of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC). The visit aimed to enhance exchanges and cooperation between the two countries in field epidemiology training.

Kick-off Meeting for the Group Standard Development Project on Specifications for Weight Management Center Construction Held in Beijing

On February 21, 2025, the National Center for Chronic and Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention (NCD Center) of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) convened the kick-off meeting for the group standard development project titled Specifications for Weight Management Center Construction in Beijing. The meeting aimed to advance the formulation of this group standard. Attendees included relevant officials from China CDC and the NCD Center, experts from drafting organizations such as Peking University Third Hospital and Beijing Friendship Hospital affiliated with Capital Medical University, as well as representatives from related industries, with more than 40 participants in total.