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BBS’s News 

 

First AUSN Master of Bioethics graduates:  

BBS signed a MOU in January 2015 with American University of the Sovereign Nations (AUSN), Arizona, 

USA for sending its members with scholarships for one year Master of Bioethics & Global Public Health 

(MBGPH) and Master of Public Health (MPH). For the session of 2014-2015, out of 15 students, four are 

awarded graduation at a ceremony of 16th Asian Bioethics Conference in Manila on November 2015 

along with one student from Thailand. These five are the First Master's degree graduates from AUSN who 

have given their thesis defense in front of more than 100 experts from every continent assembled.  

 

I, on behalf of BBS, congratulate them for their achievements. Our next graduate of MBGPH at AUSN will 

be Dr Arif Hossain who will give his public thesis defense in December 2015 in Kumamoto, Japan. 

 

Following have been conferred Master degree:  Prof Shamima Parvin Lasker, Professor & head of 

Anatomy, MH Samorita medical College, Dhaka & General Secretary, BBS; Dr. Shahana Dastagir,  

Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Dental Public Health, City Dental College, Dhaka; 

Dr. Shahanaz Chowdhury, Assistant Professor, Dept. Community Medicine, Bangladesh University of 

Health Sciences (BUHS); Md. Jobair Alam, Lecturer in Law, Department of Law, University of Dhaka. 

 

 

Photo of the graduates with their thesis examiners 

 

 
 
Members of BBS are International Conferences:   
Following members of BBS attended Bioethics conference abroad.  
 
Rishad Raihan. Assistant Project Manager, Bit Mascot (PVT) Ltd, Dhaka. Youth Looking Disaster (LBD 
7), 27-30 October, 2015, Kathmandu, Nepal. 
 
Tarana Ahmed, System Analyst, Technochic Limited. Joint Intensive Bioethics Course, 1 November, 
2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 
 



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Tamjida Ahmad, Research Assistant, Center for Civilizational Dialogue, University of Malaya, Kuala 
Lumpur. Joint Intensive Bioethics Course, 1 November, 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 
 
Prof Shamima Parvin Lasker, Professor & head of Anatomy, MH Samorita medical College, Dhaka & 
General Secretary, BBS. 16th Asian Bioethics Conference, 4-8 November 2015, Manila, Philippines. 


