from the Department of Zoology and an MA in Public Health from National Taiwan University (NTU), Chen obtained a doctorate in epidemiology and human genetics from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1982.
畢業自台灣大學動物系、台大公共衛生研究所的陳建仁，以兩年多時間拿到美國約翰霍普金斯大學流行病學博士，於一九八二年返台。