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News of BBS 

 

Collaboration: BBS has established an Academic Scholarly Exchange and Collaborative Agreement 

with American University of Sovereign Nation (AUSN), Arizona, USA to promote cooperation and 

scholarly advancements in the fields of education, academic research, bioethics, disaster prevention and 

mitigation, global studies, public health and medicine, and peace. As a first initiative, AUSN took some 

BBS’s Member for one year MBGPH (Master of Bioethics and Global Public Health) hybrid online and 

onsite master’s degree program. AUSN provides scholarship to cover tuition. 

BBS has also established collaboration with College of Medicine, National Taiwan University & 

Hospital to build collaborative Research Platform and Professional Training Workshop for Cancer 

Treatment, Hospice/Palliative Care and Bioethics in Southeast Asian Countries.  

 

Intensive Training Workshop: BBS is going to organize  three days Intensive Training Workshop on 

Bioethics and Research: Preparing Ethical Professionals to be held on Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2-4 January 

2015, at Centre for Advanced Research in Sciences, Dhaka University in collaboration between BBS  and  

Eubios Ethics Institute and AUSN. All are requested to attend the workshop.  

Speaker: Professor Darryl Macer, Director of the Institute of Indigenous Peoples and Global Studies, and 

Dean, Masters Program in Bioethics and Global Public Health (MBGPH), AUSN, USA.  

 

 

Members of BBS in Conferences in Abroad:  A team of two members attended the 15th Asian 

Bioethics Conference, 1- 9, November 2014 in Japan. They contributed with their scholarly research 

paper in the conference and enhance the prestige of BBS. Following papers were presented during the 

conference. 

 

Public responsibility in healthcare. Shamima Parvin Lasker Professor & Head of Anatomy, City Dental 

College, Dhaka , Bangladesh; General Secretary, Bangladesh Bioethics Society; Vice President for South 

Asia, Asian Bioethics Association. 

 

Ethical issues in biomedical research on human subjects in developing countries, Dr. Abdus Shakoor, 

Associate Professor of Physical Medicine, BSMMU.