Secretary for Health

Secretary for Health
Secretary for Health
Traditional Chinese	醫務衞生局局長
Yale Romanization
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Sihk maht kahp waih sāang guhk guhk jéung
Jyutping	Sik6 mat6 kap6 wai6 saang1 guk6 guk6 zoeng2

Central People's Government
nomination by Chief Executive
Central People's Government; nomination by Chief Executive
Inaugural holder	Katherine Fok; Secretary for Health and Welfare; York Chow; Secretary for Food and Health; Lo Chung-mau; Secretary for Health
Formation	1 July 1997; 1 July 2007; 1 July 2022
Salary	HK$4,021,200 per annum
Website	Health Bureau

The Secretary for Health (

Hong Kong Government, who heads the Health Bureau. The current office holder is Lo Chung-mau

The position was created on 1 July 2022, following the

Before that, the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food (

List of office holders

Political party:

Nonpartisan

Secretaries for Social Services, 1973–1983

No.	Name	Term of office		Governor
1	Li Fook-kow 李福逑	1973	1977	Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
1	Eric Peter Ho 何鴻鑾	12 April 1977	6 February 1983	Sir Murray MacLehose (1971–1982)
1	Eric Peter Ho 何鴻鑾	12 April 1977	6 February 1983	Sir Edward Youde (1971–1982)

Secretaries for Health and Welfare, 1983–1997

No.	Name	Term of office		Governor
1	Henry Ching 程慶禮	2 May 1983	30 November 1984	Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
2	John Walter Chambers 湛保庶	1 December 1984	30 September 1988	Sir Edward Youde (1982–1986)
2	John Walter Chambers 湛保庶	1 December 1984	30 September 1988	Sir David Wilson (1987–1992)
3	Chau Tak-hay 周德熙	1 October 1988	January 1990
4	Elizabeth Wong 黃錢其濂	January 1990	September 1994
4	Elizabeth Wong 黃錢其濂	January 1990	September 1994	Chris Patten (1992–1997)
5	Katherine Fok 霍羅兆貞	September 1994	30 June 1997	Chris Patten (1992–1997)

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Katherine Fok Lo Shiu-ching 霍羅兆貞	1 July 1997	19 September 1999	2 years, 80 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1
2		Yeoh Eng-kiong 楊永強	20 September 1999	30 June 2002	2 years, 283 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	1

No.	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term
1	Yeoh Eng-kiong 楊永強	1 July 2002	11 October 2004	2 years, 102 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	2
2	York Chow Yat-ngok 周一嶽	12 October 2004	30 June 2007	2 years, 261 days	Tung Chee-hwa (1997–2005)	2
2	York Chow Yat-ngok 周一嶽	12 October 2004	30 June 2007	2 years, 261 days	Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	2

No.	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term
1	York Chow Yat-ngok 周一嶽	1 July 2007	30 June 2012	5 years, 0 days	Donald Tsang (2005–2012)	3
2	Ko Wing-man 高永文	1 July 2012	30 June 2017	5 years, 0 days	Leung Chun-ying (2012–2017)	4
3	Sophia Chan Siu-chee 陳肇始	1 July 2017	30 June 2022	5 years, 0 days	Carrie Lam (2017–2022)	5

No.	Portrait	Name	Term of office		Duration	Chief Executive	Term	Ref
1		Lo Chung-mau 盧寵茂	1 July 2022	Incumbent	1 year, 291 days	John Lee (2022–present)	6

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