diff --git a/cli/setup.py b/cli/setup.py
index 383347ed9..74e239b5f 100644
--- a/cli/setup.py
+++ b/cli/setup.py
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
     name="medperf",
     version=__version__,
     description="CLI Tool for federated benchmarking on medical private data",
+    long_description=open('../README.md').read(),
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     url="https://github.com/mlcommons/medperf",
     author="MLCommons",
     license="Apache 2.0",