Yeh Ching-chuan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yeh (葉).

Yeh Ching-chuan (Chinese: 葉金川; pinyin: Yè Jīnchuān; born 29 June 1950) is a Taiwanese physician and epidemiologist.

Yeh Ching-chuan
葉金川
Yeh in 2023
12th Minister of Department of Health of the Republic 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) Dadaocheng, Datong, Taipei, Taiwan
Political party	Kuomintang
Education	National Taiwan University (BM, MPH) Harvard University (MS)

Education

Yeh attended medical school at National Taiwan University, where he earned a Bachelor of Medicine (B.M.) in 1975 and a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) in 1977. He then pursued graduate studies in the United States at Harvard University, where he earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 1981.^[1][2]

Political career

Yeh served as deputy mayor of Taipei under Ma 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 replaced Lin Fang-yue as health minister in September 2008. In May 2009, the 2009 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 the National Health Insurance program.^[9] Yeh later chaired the Taiwan Blood Services Foundation, resigning the position in 2017.^[10][11]