Shiu Ming-neng

In this Chinese name, the family name is Shiu.

Shiu Ming-neng (traditional Chinese: 許銘能; simplified Chinese: 许铭能; pinyin: Xǔ Míngnéng) is a Taiwanese physician and epidemiologist. He was the Vice Minister of Health and Welfare in the Executive Yuan from 2013 to 2016.

Shiu Ming-neng
許銘能
Vice Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of China
In office 23 July 2013 – June 2016
Minister	Chiu Wen-ta Lin Tzou-yien (acting) Chiang Been-huang Lin Tzou-yien
Deputy	Lin Tzou-yien, Tseng Chung-ming Tseng Chung-ming Lin Tzou-yien, Tseng Chung-ming Lu Pau-ching, Ho Chi-kung
Succeeded by	Tsai Sen-tien
Deputy Minister of Department of Health of the Republic of China
In office May 2013 – 22 July 2013
Minister	Chiu Wen-ta
Personal details
Education	National Taiwan University (BS, MPH, PhD) National Yang-Ming University (BM)

Education

Shiu graduated from National Taiwan University (NTU) with a bachelor's degree in pharmacy in 1983 and earned a Bachelor of Medicine (B.M.) from National Yang-Ming University in 1990. He then returned to NTU and earned a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in 1998 and his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the university in 2002.^[1] His master's thesis was titled, "A study on the natural history of oral leukoplakia and oral cancer" (Chinese: 口腔白斑及口腔癌自然病史之探討).^[2] His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Oral leukoplakia and oral cancer: Natural history patterns and screening evaluation".^[3]