Prof. Shou-Hsia Cheng

Professor Cheng is professor at the Institute of Health Policy and Management for more than 20 years. Professor Cheng has shortly served at the Taiwanese Government as the Deputy Minister of Health and the Director General of the Bureau of National Health Insurance (2008/05-2010/07), and was awarded the Health Medal from Department of Health, Executive Yuan in 2011. Professor Cheng has been awarded as a Fulbright Scholar and Takemi Fellow at Harvard Chan School of Public Health during 2016/08-2017/01. Professor Cheng’s primary expertise is health policy analysis and health economics. His research interests include the evaluation of Taiwan’s healthcare reform and the impacts of financial incentive programs; he has published papers in esteemed international journals. Professor Cheng’s academic performance has been well recognized; he has received the Outstanding Research Award from Ministry of Science and Technology in 2013, and the Distinguished Professorship from National Taiwan University in 2014.

Professor Cheng completed his doctorate training at Yale University, School of Medicine with a major in health policy and resource management in 1993. He received his bachelor and master degree in the Department of Public Health at the National Taiwan University.