Lin Tzou-yien

In this Chinese name, the family name is Lin.

Lin Tzou-yien
林奏延
Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of China
In office 20 May 2016 – 7 February 2017
Deputy	Lu Pau-ching, Ho Chi-kung
Vice	Shiu Ming-neng Tsai Sen-tien
Preceded by	Chiang Been-huang
Succeeded by	Chen Shih-chung
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
In office 22 October 2014 – 20 May 2016
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 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; born 28 October 1948) is a 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 was promoted again to head the ministry as part of Lin Chuan's incoming cabinet, which took office on 20 May 2016. Lin was succeeded in office by Chen Shih-chung on 7 February 2017.

Medical career

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

ROC Department of Health Ministry

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

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.

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

At the World Health Assembly On 25 May 2016 in Geneva, Switzerland, Lin delivered the 5-minute speech representing Chinese Taipei. He called for the sound participation of Chinese Taipei in World Health Organization. The speech was delivered fully in English without mentioning the word Taiwan, although at one point he was referring to the "Taiwanese population".