2025 CACA Integrated Science Communication Conference Opens in Beijing Director Wang Jianwei Emphasizes the Need for Deeper Collaboration to Build a New Cancer Prevention and Control System

On April 20, 2025, the “2025 Integrated Science Communication Conference,” hosted by the Chinese Anti-Cancer Association (CACA), opened in Beijing. With the theme “Science Communication First in Cancer Prevention and Control,” the conference brought together cancer prevention and control experts from across the country, including those from medical institutions, disease control systems, research institutes, and international organizations. Wang Jianwei, Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine), attended the opening ceremony and delivered a keynote speech.

China CDC Public Health Emergency Team for Nature Disaster Deploys to Earthquake-Affected Areas in Myanmar to Conduct Post-Disaster Public Health and Epidemic Control Work

On April 19, 2025, ten members of the Public Health Emergency Team for Natural Disaster from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) joined the China Public Health Team to Myanmar and departed for the earthquake-stricken area of Mandalay, Myanmar, to carry out post-disaster public health and epidemic prevention efforts. Wang Jianwei, Director of China CDC, along with leaders from the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institute of Environmental Health, as well as heads of the Office of General Administration, Office of International Cooperation, Office of Public Organizations, Center for Global Public Health, Public Health Emergency Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, and Center for Immunization Planning, were present at Beijing Capital International Airport to see the team off.

China CDC Holds 2025 Training Workshop on News and Public Communication

On April 2, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (hereinafter referred to as “the Center”) held the 2025 Training Workshop on News and Public Communication at the multifunctional hall of its North Campus. The workshop was held to earnestly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important statements on publicity, ideological, and cultural work. It aligned closely with the Center’s 2025 initiative designated as the “Year of Capacity Building,” and focused on the missions and responsibilities of health communication in the new era. The training aimed to strengthen the political integrity, professional competence, and innovative thinking of the publicity team, with the goal of cultivating a capable force to effectively tell the China CDC story and amplify authoritative voices in disease control.

Dr. Meg Doherty, Director of the WHO Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Programmes, Visits China CDC

On the morning of April 15, 2025, Dr. Meg Doherty, Director of the Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Programmes at the World Health Organization (WHO), visited the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC). She was received at the North Campus by Dr. Yan Jun, Deputy Director General of China CDC.

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