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Table 1 An overview of five ISRS

From: Role of international network on surveillance and response system leading to malaria elimination: China’s engagement in global health

Time

Presentations related to malaria SRS

Outputs

1st ISRS (2012)

-How to establish more effective and novel SRS in tailored to the various disease endemic areas

-1 summary report

-4 research priorities

-Inauguration of IDP

- 1 MoU signed with LSHTM

2nd ISRS (2014)

-Significance of surveillance-response system in BRICS malaria elimination programmes

-Harnessing China-Africa Cooperation Initiatives in Malaria Control and Elimination

-1 summary report

-4 MoUs signed with TBRI, IHI, DGHI, Fudan

3rd ISRS (2016)

Exploring the bilateral and multilateral cooperation aiming at malaria control and elimination in Africa

-1 report on the China-UK-Tanzania pilot cooperation project for malaria control

–1 report on China-Australia-Papua New Guinea pilot trilateral cooperation project for malaria control

4th ISRS (2018)

-Innovative technology to improve the SRS through platforms supported by essential databases

-Application in national control and elimination programmes on malaria

-New South-South cooperation on pilot studies in application of the SRS

-4 MoUs signed with Cameroon, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Zambia

-Establishment of INCAM

5th ISRS (2020)

-Review the progress and challenges due to COVID-19 pandemic

-Progress of malaria elimination in Greater Mekong Region

-China-Myanmar collaboration for malaria elimination in the border areas

-Enhancing INCAM communication mechanism

-Setting up INCAM academic committee

-INCAM communication mechanism

  1. SRS surveillance and response system, ISRS the International Forum on Surveillance-Response System Leading to Tropical, BRICS Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa Summit, MoU memorandum of understanding, TBRI Theodor Bilharz Research Institute, IHI Ifakara Health Institute, IDP infectious diseases of poverty, LSHTM London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, DGHI Duke Global Health Institute, INCAM the Institutional-based Network of China-Africa Cooperation on Malaria Elimination