Yi-Chun Lo
Deputy Director-General of Taiwan Centers for Disease Control, National Taiwan University Hospital (Taiwan)
Dr. Yi-Chun (Philip) Lo is currently Deputy Director-General of Taiwan Centers for Disease Control and adjunct infectious disease physician at National Taiwan University Hospital. He received his M.D. from National Taiwan University College of Medicine in 2001 and then volunteered for two years at the Taiwan Medical Mission based in Mzuzu Central Hospital Malawi between 2001 and 2003. He then completed internal medicine residency and clinical infectious disease fellowship at National Taiwan University Hospital. Since changing main career path from clinical medicine to public health in 2008 and completed Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at the US CDC in 2011, Dr. Lo has been dedicated to controlling the HIV epidemic, leading field investigations, as well as responding to emerging threats including H7N9, ebola, MERS, zika, chikungunya and most recently COVID-19 in Taiwan. For the pandemic response, Dr. Lo is currently the deputy director of the healthcare response team in the COVID-19 Central Epidemic Command Center in Taiwan.