In 1986, Dr. Pau-Chung Chen graduated from Kaohsiung Medical College in Taiwan with a degree in medicine. He then went on to study environmental and occupational medicine at the Institute of Public Health at the National Taiwan University College of Medicine between 1988-1990. In 1991-1995, he earned his MSc and PhD degrees in Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom. Currently, Dr. Chen holds the position of Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the National Taiwan University College of Public Health, as well as being a Distinguished Investigator and Director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences at the National Health Research Institutes. He has dedicated over 30 years to the field of environmental and occupational health sciences and has published over 400 scientific articles. He received the Outstanding Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology in 2015 and 2020, an Outstanding Alumni Award from Kaohsiung Medical University in 2018, and has been listed in the world's top 2% scientists since 2019. Dr. Chen served as the chair of the Scientific Committee on Reproductive Hazards in the Workplace (RHICOH) and the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) from 2012-2018. He was also the first chair of the Birth Cohort Consortium of Asia (BiCCA) from 2012-2014. In 2013-2014, he served as an expert witness in the class action of the former workers of Taiwan RCA, and gave oral testimony in court for 7 days, totaling nearly 50 hours. In 2020, he received the National Occupational Safety and Health Award - Personal Contribution Award from the Ministry of Labor. He also served as President of the Taiwan Public Health Association from 2017-2022 and under his tenure, Taiwan became the first in Asia to pass the Public Health Specialists Act in 2020. In 2023, he was elected as a Fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini.