Yeh Ching-chuan

Yeh Ching-chuan is a Taiwanese physician and epidemiologist.

Education

Yeh attended medical school at National Taiwan University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine in 1975 and a Master of Public Health in 1977. He then pursued graduate studies in the United States at Harvard University, where he earned a Master of Science in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1981.

Political career

Yeh served as deputy mayor of Taipei under Ma Ying-jeou, and was named a deputy secretary general of the presidential office at the start of Ma's first presidential term in 2008. He later replaced Lin Fang-yue as health minister in September 2008. In May 2009, the 2009 flu pandemic reached Taiwan. Before it abated, Yeh resigned his position on 3 August to run for the Hualien County magistracy, but lost a primary to Tu Li-hua.
In 2014, he was selected to lead a committee that explored possible changes to the National Health Insurance program. Yeh later chaired the Taiwan Blood Services Foundation, resigning the position in 2017.