Yeh Ching-chuan (; born 29 June 1950) is a Taiwanese politician.

Education

Upon graduation from

National Taiwan University National Taiwan University (NTU; ) is a public research university in Taipei, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1928 during Japanese rule as the seventh of the Imperial Universities. It was named Taihoku Imperial University and served d ...

medical school, Yeh began studying for his master's degree in public health. He then obtained an MPH in epidemiology from

Harvard School of Public Health The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. The school grew out of the Harvard- MIT School for Health Officers, the nation's firs ...

in 1981.

Political career

Yeh served as deputy mayor of Taipei under

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, 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

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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.

References

1950 births Living people Deputy mayors of Taipei Kuomintang politicians in Taiwan Taiwanese Ministers of Health and Welfare Harvard School of Public Health alumni National Taiwan University alumni {{Taiwan-mayor-stub