Wen-Hua KUO is an associate professor at National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, where he holds joint appointment at the Institute of Science, Technology and Society and the Institute of Public Health. His research concerns health governance in the transformation of East Asian states, with thematic focuses on Cold War epidemic control and debates on the harmonization of clinical-trial regulations.His publications include “The Voice on theBridge: Taiwan’s Regulatory Engagement with Global Pharmaceuticals” (2009), which won the David Edge Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science. His current interest moves to the globalization of medicine and its impact on East Asian countries.