Contributors

177 C o n t r i b u t o r s Francis AGUILAR is based in the Department of Philosophy, at the University of the Philippines, Manila. Ahmad Zakii ANWAR is a graduate of the School of Art and Design, MARA Institute of Technology Malaysia. He has emerged as one of the most exciting, engaging and eloquent “urban realist” artists in the southeast Asian region. This most recent series, “Being”, presents a sustained encounter with the body as an intertwined metaphor of the contemporary Self based on the Sufi premise of “knowing oneself and then knowing God”. Zakii does not position Islam as a counterpoint to Western thoughts and ideas. Rather, he recognises the contingency of history and ontology in opening an inquiry on the body, subjecting it to the vexing discourse of the contemporary, and the emancipatory nature of Sufi spirituality as productive acts of remembrance and communion. Tsuyoshi AWAYA is based at the Department of Legal Medicine and Bioethics, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences. Fatima A. CASTILLO is professor of politics and social research at the University of the Philippines. She is a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of Tropical Disease Research at WHO, and the Technical Review Board of the Philippine National Institutes for Health. She was in the faculty of the International Bioethics Training Program, a joint Philippines-USA initiative. She is the gender specialist of the international projects on benefit sharing, a project that seeks to develop a global system for incentivising the private sector to invest in drug development for neglected diseases. CHAN Chan-ip, M.D., a citizen of Macau SAR, graduated from National Taiwan University. He is a masters student of public health, concentrating on health law and policy, at National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan. His academic interests include doctorpatient relationship, transplantation ethics, and public health ethics. Leonardo D. De CASTRO heads CBmE’s programme for Capacity Development in Biomedical Ethics. Prof. de Castro has more than three decades of experience in teaching philosophy and a decade as consultant for international agencies. At the University of the Philippines, he set up a regional Research Ethics Training Program, including WHO and the EU. He has been a member of the Steering Committee for the International Summit on Organ Trafficking and the Asian Working Group against Organ Trafficking. Arif HOSSAIN is a PhD fellow with research in International Studies and Diplomacy in Washington University (USA). Simultaneously he is working on ethics as well. He is also a member of the Asian Bioethics Association (ABA). He was a co-coordinator of a research work on ethics and has some international publications on ethics. Recently he organised a workshop on bioethics in Bangladesh in collaboration with Unesco. His main interest is in bioethics in social science. C O N T R I B U T O R S Asian Bioethics Review June 2009 Volume 1, Issue 2 177–179 A s i a n B i o e t h i c s R e v i e w J u n e 2 0 0 9 Vo l u m e 1 , I s s u e 2 178 Saima Perwaiz IQBAL is assistant professor, Community Health Sciences at Shifa College of Medicine, Islamabad teaching from the first to the fourth years. She was awarded a postgraduate diploma from the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture in Karachi in 2008. In addition to conducting her own research, she is actively engaged in teaching research skills to medical students as well as helping them design research protocols. Aamir M. JAFAREY is a general surgeon and associate professor, Center of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation in Karachi, Pakistan. He teaches widely in Bioethics in Pakistan and has a special interest in transplantation ethics. Shamima Parvin LASKER is Professor of Anatomy at the City Dental College, Dhaka, Bangladesh. She took an academic course on research bioethics in 2003 from Bangladesh Medical Research Council as a programme of the Fogarty International Center of National Institute of Health. She is an active member of the Asian Bioethics Association and had organised workshops in bioethics in...