Heads of China CDC and U.S. CDC hold virtual meeting on cooperation

Shen Hongbing, director general of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), held talks with his US counterpart Mandy K. Cohen over the prospects of cooperation between the China CDC and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S. CDC) and mutual interested technical issues in a virtual meeting on Dec 13.

 

Shen said that the China CDC and U.S. CDC have maintained a long-term partnership, engaged in a series of fruitful exchanges in preventing infectious diseases and other health threats, as well as in further advancing global health security.

 

Shen noted that the China-U.S. CDC virtual technical teleconference has become a major platform for experts of the two sides to share their latest research results and disease control and prevention experience since its establishment in 2020. He asked for efforts to further deepen exchanges on emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, global health, one health, immunization, environmental health and field epidemiology training program in a move to open new frontiers for bilateral cooperation on public health.

 

Cohen agreed with Shen. She stressed that there are still many challenges faced by the world in public health and noted that we should learn experiences from the control and prevention of the COVID-19 pandemic and attach great importance to the information-based services of disease control and prevention, rapid risk communication, laboratory security and capacity building, etc.

 

Cohen also expected the technical teams of the China CDC and U.S. CDC to further bolster their exchanges, expand cooperation models and fields, and make new contributions to safeguarding the health of the people in both countries, supporting the unity and collaboration of CDCs across the world, and advancing global health security.

 

Additionally, Shen and Cohen held in-depth discussions over topics and fields of common concern and with cooperation potential.