Yeh Ching-chuan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Yeh (葉).
Yeh Ching-chuan
葉金川
12th Minister of Department of Health of the Republic of China
In office
26 September 2008 – 6 August 2009
Preceded byLin Fang-yue
Succeeded byYang Chih-liang
Personal details
Born (1950-06-29) 29 June 1950 (age 74)
Dadaocheng, Datong, Taipei, Taiwan
Political partyKuomintang
EducationNational Taiwan University (MB, MPH)
Harvard University (MS)

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

Education

Yeh attended medical school at National Taiwan University, where he earned a Bachelor of Medicine (M.B.) 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 and earned a Master of Science (M.S.) in epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[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]

References

  1. ^ "2012 Alumni Award of Merit: Ching-Chuan Yeh, MPH '81". Harvard University. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Who's Who in the ROC" (PDF). Executive Yuan. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  3. ^ Chuang, Jimmy (16 January 2005). "Ma stays put to deal with furor over comatose girl". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  4. ^ Mo, Yan-chih (20 April 2008). "Ma picks top Presidential Office aides". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  5. ^ Chuang, Jimmy (21 May 2009). "Taiwan reports first case of A(H1N1) flu". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  6. ^ Chuang, Jimmy (26 May 2009). "CDC confirms first domestic flu case". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  7. ^ Mo, Yan-chih (27 July 2009). "ANALYSIS: Ma facing challenges with KMT". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  8. ^ Hsu, Jenny W.; Mo, Yan-chih; Wang, Flora (2 September 2009). "Yeh's loss shows lack of confidence in Ma, DPP says". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  9. ^ Hsu, Stacy (4 October 2014). "Health insurance proposals panned". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  10. ^ Wu, Liang-yi; Chung, Jake (10 March 2016). "Donated blood not used for plasma as bags are too small". Taipei Times. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  11. ^ Chang, Ming-hsuan; Ku, Chuan; Low, Y. F. (12 January 2017). "Chairman of Taiwan Blood Services Foundation resigns". Central News Agency. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
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