Chuang Shuk-kwan
Chuang Shuk-kwan is a Hong Kong doctor who specializes in public health. Born on July 11, 1967, she is the head of the Communicable Disease Branch at the Centre for Health Protection. She played a leading role in Hong Kong’s fight against COVID-19, giving more than 700 public briefings from January 2020 to September 2022 and was praised for being calm, clear, and reassuring.
She studied at Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School and earned her medical degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1991. She holds several public health qualifications, including a credential from the Royal College of Physicians London, a Diploma in Paediatrics, and a Master of Preventive Medicine from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, along with fellowships in the Hong Kong College of Community Medicine and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine.
Chuang joined the Hong Kong Department of Health in 1993 and moved to the Centre for Health Protection in 2004. She initially worked as the chief social medicine doctor and the chief doctor of the Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, later becoming a consultant doctor in 2007.
She was married to Charles Yu Ngok-fung, a dentist, and they had two daughters. Her husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor in the late 2010s and died on December 6, 2020, after brain surgery at Prince of Wales Hospital.
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