Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was approved as a permanent member of the Council of the International Belt-and-Road Alliance of Tropical Medicine (Haikou, China)

Kupala University became a permanent member of BRTMA at the invitation of the President of Hainan medical University in the framework of the II Forum on tropical medicine.

Andrey Shpakov, Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Culture, presented at the forum the results of cooperation in a joint research work “Pathogenesis and epidemiology of chronic lung diseases in the temperate continental climate in Eastern Europe and tropical marine climate in East Asia”. The work was carried out by the research teams of Hainan University in Haikou and Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno with the support of the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. It should be noted that the results of the two-year joint work are known in the scientific world, published in the leading rating scientific journals of Belarus and China, as well as presented at international scientific conferences. During the meetings and negotiations at the forum, they expressed confidence that international scientific cooperation within the framework of the Alliance will soon bring tangible results in the form of new grants for joint scientific research of the participating countries, conferences and exchange of scientists. Hainan Medical University initiated the creation of the Belt-and-Road Alliance of Tropical Medicine on the proposal of the World Health Organization for the prevention of respiratory diseases and tropical diseases, as well as within the strategy to expand cooperation in the field of medicine among countries and regions united by the concept of Belt and Road Initiative. The concept of Belt and Road Initiative put forward by Chinese President XI Jinping calls for strengthening cultural and scientific exchanges and ties between different countries, as well as promoting the sustainable development of the participating countries.