Yeh Ching-chuan | |
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葉金川 | |
.jpg) Yeh in 2023 | |
| 12th Minister ofDepartment of Health of theRepublic of China | |
| In office 26 September 2008 – 6 August 2009 | |
| Preceded by | Lin Fang-yue |
| Succeeded by | Yang Chih-liang |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1950-06-29)29 June 1950 (age 75) |
| Party | Kuomintang |
| Education | National Taiwan University (BM,MPH) Harvard University (MS) |
Yeh Ching-chuan (Chinese:葉金川;pinyin:Yè Jīnchuān; born 29 June 1950) is a Taiwanese physician andepidemiologist.
Yeh attended medical school atNational Taiwan University, where he graduated with aBachelor of Medicine (B.M.) in 1975 and aMaster of Public Health (M.P.H.) in 1977.[1] He then pursued graduate studies in the United States atHarvard University, where he earned aMaster of Science (M.S.) in epidemiology from theHarvard School of Public Health in 1981.[2]
Yeh served as deputy mayor of Taipei underMa Ying-jeou,[3] and was named a deputy secretary general of the presidential office at the start of Ma's first presidential term in 2008.[4] He later replacedLin Fang-yue as health minister in September 2008. In May 2009, the2009 flu pandemic reached Taiwan.[5][6] 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.[7][8]
In 2014, he was selected to lead a committee that explored possible changes to theNational Health Insurance program.[9] Yeh later chaired the Taiwan Blood Services Foundation, resigning the position in 2017.[10][11]
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