China CDC Attends 2026 BRICS Online Meeting of National Public Health Institutes

On the evening of April 15, 2026, Deputy Director Li Qun led a China CDC delegation to the 2026 BRICS online meeting of National Public Health Institutes, or NPHIs. The meeting was hosted by the National Centre for Disease Control of India, India’s NPHI, as India holds the BRICS presidency in 2026. Nearly 30 NPHI representatives from BRICS members and partner countries, including China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, attended the meeting.

The meeting focused on in-depth exchanges on the core functions, priority work, innovative practices and future areas of cooperation of NPHIs in different countries. Deputy Director Li Qun first delivered remarks on behalf of the Chinese side. He thanked the Indian host and reviewed the positive outcomes of the first BRICS NPHI meeting, which was successfully hosted by Brazil in 2025. China CDC experts then gave a thematic presentation, providing a systematic overview of China CDC’s main progress and best practice cases in disease surveillance and early warning. During the discussion session, the Chinese side took an active part in discussions on the operational framework of the BRICS NPHI Network. It also explored possible cooperation in infectious disease surveillance and early warning, public health emergency response, vaccine research and development, nutrition and health, climate change, chronic disease prevention and control, and digital health.

The meeting continued the momentum of the first BRICS NPHI meeting held in 2025, and further strengthened the dialogue mechanism and cooperation network among public health institutes of BRICS countries. China CDC’s in-depth participation showed China’s constructive role in global health governance, as well as its active willingness to promote South-South cooperation and share China’s public health solutions.