Dr. Wu Lien-Teh was born in Penang in 1879, one of the three towns of the Straits Settlements (the others being Malacca and Singapore). Penang and Malacca are now part of Malaysia. His father was a goldsmith whose family immigrated from Taishan, Guandong, China whereas his mother was a second-generation Hakka residing on the island. As a young boy, his parents sent him to study at Penang Free School.

He was English-educated, a King's Scholar and the first person of Chinese descent to graduate as a medical doctor from the University of Cambridge. In 1906, he founded the Anti-Opium Association in Penang.

Dr Wu was a physician renowned for his work in public health and particularly, as the 'Plague Fighter' who stamped out the Manchurian plague of 1910–11. He was also the first Malayan and the first Chinese-heritage person nominated to receive the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1935.

His other claim to fame is as the inventor of the Wu mask, the precursor of today's N95 mask.

This website is specially created by Mr CK Mak and Dr Yvonne Ho AM to commemorate the lifetime work in Public Health of Dr Wu Lien-Teh.

Yvonne is a medical doctor who specialises in radiology with subspecialty interests in nuclear medicine/PET, musculoskeletal imaging, administration and education.

She serves on various Boards, Council and committees of Australian public organisations. Yvonne is unique because she also has an established parallel career in music.

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Dr Yvonne Ho AM

• AAGM MBBS (University of Melbourne) FRANZCR FAANMS GAICD
  

  
  Speaker | Board Director | Educator | Musician | Radiologist | Nuclear Medicine Specialist
  2015 Member of the Order of Australia
  2014 Winner of the Australia Awards
  2013 Inductee of the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
  Australia Day Ambassador for the Victorian Government
  Victorian Honour Roll of Women Ambassador
  Director of Cambridge Healthcare
  Director of Charteris Music School