Financing Health Care for All: The Taiwan Experience: SPH Dean's Colloquium

Dr. Yaung, Taiwan's Minister of Health, will speak on health care costs at the Center for Chinese Studies on the campus of UC Berkeley.

As Minister of Health at Taiwan’s Department of Health, Dr. Yaung leads the Taiwan Department of Health and its subsidiary agencies in working toward serving as a catalyst in improving the health of the people, educating the people about having a healthy lifestyle, paving the road for the health industry, and participating in international health affairs. The department also promotes health care management and disease prevention, food and drug safety, and health insurance affairs.

Dr. Yaung is one of the most renowned academic and field experts in public health, and health care administration in Taiwan. He has been notably recognized for his contributions to health care and health insurance policy, his prominent career of public service and health policy development, and his academic appointments over the past 30 years.

Prior to this cabinet appointment, Dr. Yaung was the vice president of the Asia University in Taiwan, at which he remains a chaired professor. As an academic, Dr. Yaung has educated myriad public health professionals and leaders for the past three decades. He has published several textbooks about health insurance and biostatistics, more than 100 academic and conference papers, and presided or participated in a vast number of research programs and projects. Dr. Yaung’s research interests include public health, health policy and management, health insurance, and health information.