Chuang Shuk-kwan

In this Chinese name, the family name is Chuang.

Chuang Shuk-kwan JP DCH FFPH
張竹君
Chuang at a press conference in 2020
Head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the Centre for Health Protection
Personal details
Born	(1967-07-11) July 11, 1967 (age 57)[1] Hong Kong
Spouse	Charles Yu Ngok-fung ​ ​ (died 2020)​
Children	2
Education	Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School HKU Medical Faculty

Chuang Shuk-kwan (Chinese: 張竹君; born 11 July 1967) is a Hong Kong doctor specialising in public health medicine, currently serving as the head of the Communicable Disease Branch of the Centre for Health Protection in Hong Kong. She has had a leading role in the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, including giving more than 700 official public briefings, from January 2020 to September 2022, for which she received praise as patient, frank and reassuring.^[2][3][4]

Education

Chuang studied at Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School and graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 1991. Since then, she has obtained a number of degrees and professional qualifications, including Royal College of Physicians London, UK, Diploma in Paediatrics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Master of Preventive Medicine, Royal College of Physicians Academician of Public Health, Fellow of Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.^[5]

Career

Chuang joined Hong Kong Department of Health in 1993, and started working in Centre for Health Protection in 2004. In the early days of the CHP, she served as the chief social medicine doctor and the chief doctor of the Surveillance and Epidemiology Division. She was later promoted to a consultant doctor in 2007.^[6]

Family

Chuang was married to Charles Yu Ngok-fung, (余岳鋒), an oral and maxillofacial dentist. They have two daughters together.^[7]

Chuang's husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the late 2010s and underwent multiple operations. In 2020, he was admitted for brain surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital,^[8][9] where on December 6, 2020, he died of brain cancer.^[10][11]

References

1. Staff List, Hong Kong Government, J. R. Lee, Government Printer, 1996 p 238
2. The Public Face of the Coronavirus Fight Archived 2022-02-21 at the Wayback Machine, EJ Insight 6 May 2020
3. Hamlett, Tim (2022-10-02). "Straight talk: Why Chuang Shuk-kwan's performances at Hong Kong's Covid-19 press conferences were worthy of praise". Hong Kong Free Press HKFP. Archived from the original on 2022-10-02. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
4. "CHP's Chuang Shuk-kwan wishes HK well as she counts 5,190 cases at final daily Covid briefing". The Standard. 24 September 2022. Archived from the original on 2022-09-28. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
5. "Centre for Health Protection, Department of Health - Communicable Disease Branch". www.chp.gov.hk. Archived from the original on 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2022-10-02.
6. 李八方 (2007-03-06). "醫生女主播上位" (in Chinese). 蘋果日報. Archived from the original on 2020-12-08. Retrieved 2020-12-08.
7. "【有心醫生夫婦】張竹君丈夫病逝 同為醫生熱心助人 教友、病人惋惜稱許「大好人」". 眾新聞. 2020-12-07. Archived from the original on 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
8. "夫腦瘤命危 張竹君連月奔波威院". 蘋果日報. 2020-11-01. Archived from the original on 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
9. "消息指張竹君丈夫病重 威院深切治療部留醫". 香港01. 2020-11-01. Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
10. "張竹君丈夫醫生不敵腦癌 搏鬥1年病逝". 蘋果日報. 2020-12-06. Archived from the original on 2020-12-06. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
11. Shum, Michael (8 December 2020). "Chuang back to work after loss". The Standard. Archived from the original on 2020-12-17. Retrieved 2022-10-02.