Chuang Yin-ching

Kenneth Chuang Yin-ching is a Taiwanese epidemiologist. As of January 2020, he leads the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) Communicable Disease Control Medical Network.

COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan Chuang rose to prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan. Chuang and two colleagues issued on 16 January a level-2 travel alert for Wuhan, China because of his and his colleague's three-day long on-the-ground experience in that city from 13 January to 15 January 2020.

At the 16 January conference, Chuang remarked on the case of "a married couple infected in Wuhan. The husband worked at the market, but the wife, who had not recently been to the market due to limited mobility, might have contracted the illness from her husband." Chuang also was among the first to report that the SARS-CoV-2 infections were occurring in clusters.

Chuang stated later, in an interview for The Daily Telegraph that:

Chuang "received no response to his questions about why 13 infections could not be traced to the (HSCM) seafood market."

The WHO declared a PHEIC on 30 January.