Carmen Castillo Taucher

Carmen Gisele Castillo Taucher (born 1954) is a Chilean surgeon and academic.

Carmen Castillo Taucher studied at the University of Chile's Faculty of Medicine, graduating as a surgeon.

Later, she completed a Master in Public Health degree with a mention in epidemiology at the same university.

The same year, she joined the "Presidential Advisory Commission for the Study and Proposal of a New Model and Legal Framework for the Private Health System", convened by President Michelle Bachelet to reform the system of Social Security Institutions [es].

[2] On 23 January 2015, Bachelet appointed her Minister of Public Health, replacing Helia Molina, who had resigned on 30 December 2014.