Chen Ching-min

Chen Ching-min, born in Taipei on 2 May 1966, is a Taiwanese nurse, health scientist and politician. She trained in the United States, taking a bachelor's degree in nursing at the University of Illinois Chicago in 1990, then a Master of Public Health and a Doctor of Nursing Science at Indiana University in 1995, and a second doctorate, a Ph.D. in health policy, in 2007. Her first doctoral dissertation examined the factors influencing cervical cancer screening among Taiwanese women. After 2007 she became a professor at Taipei Medical University, where she established the School of Geriatric Nursing and Care Management, and she joined the faculty of National Cheng Kung University in 2011. She served as deputy director of the Taiwan Nurses Association, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2019, and in 2022 became the first Taiwanese nurse named a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She also sat as an appointed at-large member of the Legislative Yuan for the Democratic Progressive Party, from 2018 to 2020 and again from 2022 to 2024.