Lo Yi-Chun

Lo Yi-Chun represents a kind of public figure I think deserves more recognition than it gets. A Hualien-born internist and epidemiologist, the kind of specialist who is invisible in calm times and indispensable in a crisis. He moved from National Taiwan University Hospital to become deputy director-general of Taiwan's CDC in 2016 and helped run the medical response at the central epidemic command center from 2020. Infectious-disease experts shoulder responsibility most of us never see, weighing risk and lives behind data and policy. I have a deep, plain respect for that. Fame is a poor measure of value, and people like this are exactly why.

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Name (English)

Lo Yi-Chun

Name (Japanese)

羅一鈞

Reading

ら・いっきん

Born

December 24, 1977 (age 48)

Origin

Hualien County, Taiwan

Occupation

internist / epidemiologist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Snake

High school

Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School

University

National Dong Hwa University Experimental Primary School

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%BE%85%E4%B8%80%E9%88%9E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108460380

Tags

• Hualien County
• internist
• epidemiologist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.