Chuang Shuk-kwan
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- Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School
- HKU Medical Faculty
Chuang Shuk-kwan | |
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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 | July 11, 1967[1] British Hong Kong |
| Spouse |
Charles Yu Ngok-fung
(died 2020) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
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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]
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]