Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Macau)

The Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese: 疾病預防控制中心, Portuguese: Centro de Controlo e Prevenção da Doença) was created in 2001^[1] and is under the Health Bureau of Secretariat for Social Affairs and Culture of Macau, China.

Centre for Disease Control and Prevention

疾病預防控制中心 Centro de Controlo e Prevenção da Doença
Agency overview
Formed	2001
Superseding agency	none
Jurisdiction	Macau
Headquarters	Macau
Ministers responsible	Secretary for Social Affairs and Budget Lei Chin Ion, Director of the Health Bureau
Agency executive	Mr Tong Ka-io, Director
Parent agency	Health Bureau

History

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Macau, the CPDCP's Communicable Disease Prevention and Disease Surveillance Unit is tasked to monitor residents of Macau and anyone else who travels in and out of the SAR as part of anti-coronavirus measures enacted.^[2]

Structure

The CDCP is in of the following units:^[3]

• Communicable Disease Prevention and Disease Surveillance Unit
• Special Preventive Services Team
• Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion Unit
• Environmental & Food Hygiene Unit
• Health Planning Unit
• Vector Control Working Group
• Community Health Working Group

See also

• Similar agencies
  • Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong
  • Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
  • European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)  European Union
  • Centres for Disease Control (CDC)  United States
  • Health Protection Agency (HPA)  United Kingdom
  • Institut de veille sanitaire (IVS)  France
  • Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC)  Canada
• Public health