Chiu Tai-yuan

Chiu Tai-yuan is a Taiwanese physician who was the Minister of Health and Welfare from 2024 to 2025.

Education

Chiu enrolled in China Medical University in 1976 and graduated with his Doctor of Medicine in 1983. He then earned a Master of Health Science from the University of Tokyo in 1995.

Political career

In 2015, Chiu was nominated by the Democratic Progressive Party for the proportional representation constituency in the 2016 Taiwanese legislative election, listed 22nd in the party-list, but was not elected.
In October 2016, after legislator Hsu Kuo-yung transfer to the Executive Yuan serving as spokesperson, Chiu was elected by substitute. Chiu was re-elected in 2020.
On 19 April 2024, then prime minister-designate Cho Jung-tai announced that Chiu would be the new minister of Health and Welfare in the new cabinet. On 1 September 2025, he was succeeded as minister by Shih Chung-liang.