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BRICS Health Ministers Meeting 2026
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India hosted the 16th BRICS Health Ministers' Meeting in Chandigarh from July 22-24, focusing on health security, digital health, TB, and pandemic preparedness. India introduced mental wellness and healthy lifestyles agenda items, and a traditional medicine working group was approved.
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Meeting concludes with commitments on health systems
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BRICS approves traditional medicine working group
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India adds mental wellness, healthy lifestyles to agenda
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Meeting begins; yoga session promotes non-communicable disease prevention
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India to host BRICS health ministers meet in Chandigarh
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Full story →India adds mental wellness, healthy lifestyles to BRICS health agenda
India introduced mental wellness agenda item at the 16th BRICS Health Ministerial Meeting.
India introduced a BRICS Mission on Healthy Lifestyles agenda item.
Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava said delegates from 11 BRICS and 10 partner nations are deliberating in Chandigarh.
Delegates praised India's healthcare innovations, traditional medicine, and digital health ecosystem.
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Full story →July 22 BRICS health ministers’ meet in Chandigarh: Focus on TB, infectious diseases, digital health
India hosts the 16th BRICS health ministers’ meeting in Chandigarh from July 22 to 24, 2026, with 11 member nations participating.
The meeting focuses on nine priority areas including collaborative research on tuberculosis, prevention of mass infectious diseases, digital health, and mental well-being.
The theme of the meeting is 'Building for resilience, innovation, cooperation and sustainability'.
Union health secretary Punya Salila Srivastava emphasized collaboration on communicable and non-communicable diseases, pandemic preparedness, TB research, digital health architecture, affordable medicines, and universal health coverage.
The health ministers’ meeting on July 23 will be chaired by Union health and family welfare minister Jagat Prakash Nadda.