Shih Chung-liang

Shih Chung-liang
石崇良
Official portrait, 2025
7th Minister of Health and Welfare
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 September 2025
Prime Minister	Cho Jung-tai
Preceded by	Chiu Tai-yuan
Additional positions 2nd Executive Secretary of the Healthy Taiwan Promotion Committee Incumbent Assumed office 1 September 2025 President Lai Ching-te Preceded by Chiu Tai-yuan Member of the Whole-of-Society Defense Resilience Committee (Government Representative) Incumbent Assumed office 1 September 2025 President Lai Ching-te Preceded by Chiu Tai-yuan 1st Deputy Executive Secretary of the Healthy Taiwan Promotion Committee In office 22 August 2024 – 31 August 2025 President Lai Ching-te Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Cheng Chun-sheng 3rd Director-General of the National Health Insurance Administration In office 6 February 2023 – 31 August 2025 Minister Hsueh Jui-yuan Chiu Tai-yuan Preceded by Lee Chen-hua (acting) Succeeded by Chen Liang-yu Administrative Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare In office 1 September 2020 – 5 February 2023 Minister Chen Shih-chung Hsueh Jui-yuan Succeeded by Chou Jih-haw
Personal details
Born	(1965-11-20) 20 November 1965 (age 60)
Party	Independent
Education	Kaohsiung Medical University (MD) National Taiwan University (PhD)

Shih Chung-liang (Chinese: 石崇良; born 20 November 1965) is a Taiwanese physician who has served as Minister of Health and Welfare since 2025.

Education and career

Shih attended medical school at Kaohsiung Medical University, where he earned a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in 1991. After graduation, he was an attending physician in emergency medicine at National Taiwan University Hospital from 1998 to 2007. While practicing, he earned his Ph.D. in public health, health policy, and health management from National Taiwan University in 2006. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "An epidemiological study of adverse events in emergency medicine" (急診醫療不良事件之流行病學研究).

From February 6, 2023, to August 31, 2025, Shih was the director-general of the National Health Insurance Administration [zh] of the Ministry of Health. Previously, he served as the ministry's head of medical affairs and as deputy health minister. On August 30, 2025, he was confirmed to succeed Chiu Tai-yuan as health minister, and took office on September 1. As minister, he took over supervision of the ministry's "Healthy Taiwan" initiative, aimed to increase sustainable development.

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