Bangladesh Bioethics Society

Bangladesh Bioethics Society (BBS) is a non government organisation concerned with bioethics in Bangladesh. BBS is working to promote ethical values, practice of ethics and morality among different stakeholders for preventing corruption, upholding human rights and promoting good governance in Bangladesh. BBS is the first academic organisation on bioethics in Bangladesh. It is a non profit, non political, multidisciplinary and voluntary organisation.

Bangladesh Bioethics Society (BBS)

Formation	July 2009
Type	Academic organisation
Registration no.	S11259
Focus	Ethics, bioethics, human rights
Headquarters	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Services	Workshop, courses, international conference, awareness building
Method	Lobbying, publications, outreach programs
Members	300 (as of August 2014)
President	Prof. Taslima Mansoor
Vice-President	Dr. Arif Hossain
Treasurer	Dr. Sitesh C. Bachar
Secretary General	Prof. Shamima Parvin Lasker
Affiliations	UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics, Thailand Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs), Paris Kennedy Institute of Ethics, USA International Society of Bioethics (SIBI), Spain Globethics.net, Switzerland
Website	bioethics.org.bd

BBS was established in 2009 under the RUSHSAP (Regional Unit for Social and Human Science in Asia and the Pacific) UNESCO Bangkok and UNESCO Dhaka[1] and was launched by Nurul Islam Nahid, the Minister of Education, People's Republic of Bangladesh with Prof. Shamima P Lasker and Dr. Arif Hossain.

Affiliations

BBS is affiliated to:

1. UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics, Thailand[2]
2. Global Ethics Observatory (GEObs), Paris[3]
3. Kennedy Institute of Ethics, USA[4]
4. International Society of Bioethics (SIBI), Spain[5]
5. Globethics.net, Switzerland[6]

BBS Committees

Executive Committee of BBS (2014–2016)

Position	Name	Designation	Institute
President	Prof Taslima Monsoor	Professor & Dean, Faculty of Law	University of Dhaka
Vice presidents	Dr Arif Hossain	Course Coordinator & Mentor, Dept. of Human Rights Director Associate Editor	Etrat University, Iran EBCI Group Friday Review, Dhaka
Vice presidents	Prof Wardatul Akmam	Department of Sociology	University of Rajshahi
General Secretary	Prof Shamima P Lasker	Prof & Head of Anatomy	City Dental College
Joint Secretary	Adv Alamgir Kabir	Director, AK & Associate & Member	Bangladesh Bar Council
Treasurer	Dr Sitesh C. Bachar	Professor, Dept of Pharmaceutical Technology	University of Dhaka
Publication Secretary	Mrs. Tahera Ahmed	Asst Representative, UNFPA (Rtd.)	UNFPA, Bangladesh
Publicity Secretary	Dr Md Humayun Kabir Talukder	Professor & Course Coordinator	Centre for Medical Education, Dhaka
Member	Adv Hosne Ara Lutfa Dalia, MP	Bangladesh Supreme Court & Judge Court	Rangpur
Member	Prof Md Aynal Haque	Professor and director, Biomedical Engineering Centre	BUET
Member	Prof Rowshan Ara	Dept of Philosophy	Dhaka University
Member	Dr. Badruddoza	Chairman & Director, City Dental College	City Dental College
Member	Mr. Kamal Hossain	Deputy Secretary	UGC
Member	Dr Noor E Parvin	Associate Professor of Zoology	Dhaka College
Member	Dr Ashraf Ali	President	Taposhi Bangla Community Health Care & Social Work Organization
Member	Dr MA Shakoor	Associate Professor, Department of Physical Medicine	BSMMU
Member	Dr Iffat Ara	Rtd.
Member	Major (Rtd.) Zia Uddin Ahme	Director	DMHLtd
Member	Dr Zubayer	Lecturer of Anatomy	Greenlife Medical College, Dhaka
Member	Mehdi Imam	URBIS, Coordinator in Dhaka,	Centre for Urban Studies (CUS), Dhaka.
Student Representative	Farin Binte Rahman	4th year BDS Student	City Dental College, Dhaka.

Advisory Committee of BBS

Name	Designation	Institute
Dr Darryl Macer	Professor of Bioethics and Biomedicine AUSN Former Regional Advisor Director & Provost	AUSN, USA UNESCO, Bangkok
Dr Malama Maleisea	Director Centre for Samoan Studies Former Director	National University of Samoa UNESCO, Dhaka.
Prof. Nazrul Islam	Chairman Former chairman	Centre for Urban Studies UGC
Habbibullah Majumder	Secretary Former Secretary	Consultant IMED Ministry of Planning
Selina Hossain	Chairman Bengali fiction writer, essayist and editor	Bangladesh Shisu Academy
Prof M A Mannan	Pediatrician Former chairman	BMRC.
Iftekharuzzaman	Executive Director	TIB
Dr Shah Md Keramat Ali	Professor & Head of Public Health	Daffodil University
Prof. Ahmed Neaz	Dept of Economics	AIUB
Prof. Shamima Choudhury	Dept of Physics	Dhaka University
Shelina Afroze PhD	Additional Director	HSTTI, Rajshahi
Parvin Sultana		Gender and Energy Network Bangladesh

Journal

Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics (BJB) is the official Journal of the BBS, first published in 2010. BJB has both print and internet version edition journal and published quarterly.

The journal is indexed by NLB, Index Copernicus, DOAJ and Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC), WHO IMSEAR, Bangljol of INASP and Drij.

BJB is being published regularly in different international publishing house.

1. BanglaJOL[7]
2. Hinary (WHO/OMS Extranet service)[8]
3. Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
4. Georgetown University Law Library, USA[9]
5. Globethics.net, Switzerland[10]
6. Universe Digital Library (UDL), Malaysia
7. Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI)
8. World Medical Journal Editors (WAME)

References

1. http://www.unescobkk.org/rushsap/asia-pacific-region/networks/country-list-of-unesco-asia-pacific-school-of-ethics/
2. "UNESCO Office in Bangkok: Country list of UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics". www.unescobkk.org. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
3. http://www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geo/user/?action=search&lng=en&db=GEO2
4. "Georgetown Bioethics Library | Bioethics Organizations Advanced Search". bioethics.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 20 June 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "Search organizations - Globethics.net". www.globethics.net. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
7. "Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics". www.banglajol.info. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
8. "WHO | Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative". extranet.who.int. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
9. "Georgetown Bioethics Library | Bioethics Organizations Advanced Search". bioethics.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
10. http://www.unesco.org/shs/ethics/geo/user/?action=search&lng=en&db=GEO2

External links

• Official website