Prof Chwan-Chuen King was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Taiwan at two years-old. Across her educational career, she completed four degrees: (1) B.S. in Food Microbiology from NTU, (2) M.S. in Molecular Virology from University of Texas at Austin, (3) M.P.H. from University of California at Berkeley, concentrating on Medical Virology, and (4) Dr. P.H. from University of California at Los Angeles, focusing on epidemiology of infectious diseases. She has been teaching in the fields of surveillance, epidemiology, and public health policies in viral diseases and emerging infectious diseases, vaccinology, and dynamics of virus changes and immunity since 1987. Her research focuses include infectious disease surveillance systems, epidemiology of measles, Japanese encephalitis, dengue, human influenza, avian influenza, SARS, COVID-19, and machine learning for severe dengue prediction. She edited the “Handbook for Dengue control” and has authored many Chinese articles on higher education and the prevention/control of infectious diseases in Taiwan.