Biography

Dr. Yi-Chun (Philip) Lo is currently Deputy Director-General and spokesperson of Taiwan CDC and adjunct infectious disease physician at National Taiwan University Hospital. Since changing career path from clinical medicine to public health in 2008, Dr. Lo has been dedicated to controlling the HIV epidemic and associated coinfection outbreaks among MSM (e.g., HCV, shigellosis, hepatitis A) as well as responding to emerging threats including H7N9, ebola, MERS, zika, chikungunya, COVID-19 and most recently mpox in Taiwan. He is also a leading advocate in the Taiwanese government for HIV self-testing, PrEP, and legal protection policies among key populations.