Tahniah diucapkan di atas perlantikan ahli2 VASTukm sebagai Ahli Bersekutu Majlis Bioetika Negara (MBN):


1) Prof. Madya Dr. Mashitoh Yaacob;
2) Dr. Zurina Mahadi;
3) Marina Abdul Masjid;
4) Noor Sharizad Rusly;
5) Mohamad Adha

Majlis Bioetika Negara (MBN) : http://www.bioetika.gov.my/
Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) : http://www.eubios.info/asian_bioethics_assn

Kumpulan VASTUKM mengucapkan tahniah dan penghargaan yang setinggi-tingginya kepada ketua kumpulan VASTUKM Prof. Madya. Dr. Latifah Amin diatas pelantikan untuk jawatan Publicity Committee Chair  dalam Asian Bioethics Association (ABA). Semoga hal ini dapat memberikan manfaat yang positif kepada semua pihak, terutama kepada para ahli kumpulan VASTUKM untuk lebih giat aktif didalam bidang kepakaran masing-masing.


Secara ringkas, inilah butiran committee  dalam Asian Bioethics Association:
 
President: Dr. Miyako Takagi (Japan) 
Immediate Past-President: Dr. Aamir Jafarey (Pakistan) 
Vice President for Asian Ethnic and Religious Minorities:  Dr. Jasdev Rai Singh (UK)
Vice President for China: Prof. (Ms.) Yanguang Wang
Vice President for India: Dr. M. Selvanayagam
Vice President for Indonesia: Prof. Umar Anggara Jenie
Vice President for Japan: Prof. Tsuyoshi Awaya
Vice President for Korea: Dr. Young-mo Koo
Vice-President for the Pacific: Dr. (Ms.) Irina Pollard (Australia) 
VP for South Asia: Prof. (Ms.) Shamina Lasker (Bangladesh) 
VP for South East Asia: Prof. Ravichandran Moorthy
Vice President for Pakistan: Dr. Shahid Shamim
Vice President for Taiwan: Prof. Shui Chuen Lee 
VP for West Asia: Dr. (Ms.) Bakhyt Sarymsakova (Kazakstan) 
Secretary: Prof. Darryl Macer (Thailand/New Zealand/Japan)

Iran Country representative: Alireza Bagheri
Latin America Regional representative: Prof. Martha Marcela Alanis Rodriguez (Mexico)
Mongolia Country representative: Mr. Amarbayasgalan Dorjderem
Myanmar Country representative: Ms Yamin Thu
Nepal Country representative: Mr. Rimesh Khanal
Philippines Country representative: Prof. Marlon Lofredo: 
Sri Lanka Country representative: Prof. Anoja Fernando
Turkey Country representative: Dr. Hasan Erbay
Thailand Country representative: Prof. Soraj Hongladarom
Vietnam Country representative: Dr Ngu Thi Tuyen


Publicity Committee Chair: Prof. Latifah Amin (Malaysia)

Fund Raising Committee Chair: Prof. Nader Ghotbi (Japan/Iran)

ABA Logo Development Committee Chair: Ms. Ananya Tritipthumrongchok (Thailand)

Our group has just received the 1st endowment to kick start our new group. Although the amount is not much (28k), but let us try to maximize the use of the grant for our group's KPI  with the hope that next year we will get more.

For a start, I am planning to organize a strategic planning workshop (26 Nov 2013), followed by two days publication workshop (27-28 Nov 2013) at Equatorial Hotel. (Sorry there is a change in the tentative dates due to several overlapping programme at PPU and holiday as well as to give members more time to prepare manuscripts). Hope the dares are ok for all members.

1. For the planning workshop, I hope Prof Sobri and Prof Zawiyah will be willing to share with us their experience at their respective faculty on how to plan strategically to steer our group to become a competitive group in term of KPIs (especially publication in high impact journals)  and contribution to society.  We will reserve two slots for Prof Sobri and Prof Zawiyah in the morning followed by our group meeting/discussion. If we can finished the planning agenda in the morning, we will start working on our  manuscripts in the afternoon.  

2. For the publication workshop, the agenda will be rather free style. You can bring along your GRAs/RAs/postgraduate students (preferably with manuscripts) and help them to refine their manuscripts. But for members who will be bringing GRA/RA/Postgrads, please inform me ASAP the number for the purpose of budgeting and seminar room booking.

- Alternatively, we can help each other to review each other members manuscripts and refine our manuscripts and hope that our  expert members (Prof Sobri, Prof Zawiyah and Prof Faridah)  will be willing to review some of our members manuscripts too.  
- Sorry there is a change in the earlier plan too. Initially I thought of inviting a prominent researcher in social science, Dr Steven Krauss from UPM to give some insights from the social science area but he is not available most of the time this year. But  then we already have several experts in our groups and  we can help to review each other's manuscripts too. Insyaallah I can share some of some of my limited experience too....

3. Future plan. insyaallah we will have a proposal writing workshop (ERGS) in Dec.

Hope everyone can block the dates for our planned workshops and please bring along several manuscripts. To maximize the workshops, hope VAST members/your RAs can identify your targeted journals as well as bringing along the journal's format and samples of published papers.

Thank you.

Best wishes,

Latifah