Lin Tzou-yien

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Lin Tzou-yien
林奏延
Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of China
Assumed office
20 May 2016
Deputy Lu Pau-ching, Ho Chi-kung
Vice Shiu Ming-neng
Preceded by Chiang Been-huang
In office
3 October 2014 – 22 October 2014 (acting)
Deputy Tseng Chung-ming
Vice Shiu Ming-neng
Preceded by Chiu Wen-ta
Succeeded by Chiang Been-huang
Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of China
Assumed office
22 October 2014
Minister Chiang Been-huang
Deputy Tseng Chung-ming
Vice Shiu Ming-neng
In office
2011 – 3 October 2014
Minister Chiu Wen-ta
Vice Shiu Ming-neng
Personal details
Born (1948-10-28) 28 October 1948 (age 76)
Taiwan
Nationality  Republic of China
Alma mater Taipei Medical College
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
University of Texas

Lin Tzou-yien (Chinese: 林奏延; pinyin: Lín Zòuyán) is Taiwanese physician. He was the deputy Minister of Health and Welfare and served as acting Minister in October 2014 upon the resignation of Chiu Wen-ta. Upon the appointment of Chiang Been-huang, Lin returned to his previous post until he promoted again to head the ministry as part of Lin Chuan's incoming cabinet, which took office on 20 May 2016.

Medical career

Lin studied at the Taipei Medical College from 1966 to 1973 and spent the 1980s abroad in the United States, serving as a fellow at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas and later in the same position at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1984, he returned to Taiwan and began working for the Chang Gung hospital system.[1] He was the superintendent of Chang Gung Children's Hospital until 2011.[2]

ROC Department of Health Ministry

Later that year, Lin began working as a deputy minister of the Department of Health.[3]

In early April 2013 during the H7N9 flu virus outbreak, Lin gave a statement that expressed confidence in Taiwan's ability to develop its own vaccine against the virus without any collaboration with Mainland China. Speaking at the Central Epidemic Command Center, he further added that the ROC government had prepared a team to produce the vaccine with the collaboration with local manufacturers.[4]

After head health minster Chiu Wen-ta resigned on 3 October 2014 to take responsibility for a food scandal involving tainted oil, Lin was named acting minister.[5] He was subsequently replaced by Chiang Been-huang on 22 October.[6] On 7 April 2016, Tsai Ing-wen's designated premier Lin Chuan named Lin Tzou-yien the next leader of the health ministry.[7] He is to take office on 20 May 2016.

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