The 12th Asian Bioethics Conference will be held late September to early October 2011 in Taiwan. More information soon available.

Elections for ABA Board will be held in October-November 2010. Voters and candidates need to be current members. Please go to the bottom of this page and find the mmembership fee and return by email or fax.

This page was last updated 7 August 2010.

ABA Membership is open to all who share the goals of developing cross-cultural and international bioethics in their region of the world. The membership form is available in the pdf file version (please download the form, fees for 2010 remain the same as for 2009

Tenth Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC10)/Fourth UNESCO Asia-Pacific School of Ethics Bioethics Roundtable , 26-29 April, 2009, Tehran, Iran.Ê
Hosts: Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

ABC2008 Abstract book (pdf file)

Eighth Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC8), 19-23 March 2007, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Concurrent with the UNESCO Bangkok Second Bioethics Roundtable (BBRT2). Program, Participants List and Abstracts. Files also available on websites at RUSHSAP past events, and Chulalongkorn.Ê

Seventh Asian Bioethics Conference (ABC7), 6-9 August 2006, Beijing, China. ABC7 overlapped with the Eighth World Congress of Bioethics.Ê
Sixth Asian Bioethics Conference, 14-18 November, 2005, Sanliurfa, Turkey.
Proceedings of Fifth Asian Bioethics Conference (13-16 February 2004) Tsukuba Science City, Japan
Proceedings of Fourth Asian Bioethics Conference
Abstracts of the Third Asian Bioethics Conference (ABA3, IAB4)
Proceedings of the Second Asian Bioethics Conference

Report of the 2008 Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) BoardÊMeeting and General Meeting EJAIB 18 (Nov. 2008). At the 2008 Board and general Meeting the following addition was added to the constitution:
The board can co-opt, by consensus, associate non-voting members to increase the diversity and geographical representation of the board for the current term.

In 2006 there was an election between the two candidates nominated for position of Vice-President of ABA from China. Registered current members of ABA could place one vote for either candidate. There were 16 votes for Dr. LEI Ruipeng, and 19 votes for Dr. WANG Yanguang. Therefore Dr. Wang was elected.

The report of the general meeting held on 14 February 2004 is available.

Those attending the IAB7 World Congress of Bioethics in Australia met at the ABA General Meeting on 12 November, 2004. The new Board members present were introduced. Note that the Australasian Bioethics Association also uses the abbreviation ABA. All Board members, new and old, and members and observers were welcome at Board meetings.

Persons who want to confirm their membership of the ABA must send their completed membership form (pdf version can be downloaded) to the secretary, Darryl Macer, (by Email, fax or airmail).

Membership fees are payable at any time in the year, including at the time of renewal to EJAIB, the official journal of ABA. A three tier system exists for annual fees:

a) Regular price (US$50 Euro 50 Yen 5000).

This includes the EJAIB journal subscription and free associate membership of Eubios Ethics Institute.

b) Reduced contribution (the amount is up to the member, and is also suggested for students)

This includes the EJAIB journal subscription.

c) No fee, because the person is not in a position to pay the fee.

This does not include a hard copy of the EJAIB journal, but anyone can apply to Eubios Ethics Institute separately for a hard copy of the Journal, to be considered case by case.

For historical information see the East Asian Association of Bioethics which on 5 November, 1997, was broadened to a full Asian Bioethics Association at the UNESCO ABC in Kobe.

ABA Membership list

Persons who want to confirm their membership of the ABA must send their completed membership form and fees to the secretary if your name does not appear in the current list , Darryl Macer, (by Email, fax or airmail). The previous ABA membership list includes many who have not paid up for the previous year. Only those currently paid up persons on the current list will be eligible for voting in elections. Membership renewals are required each year. Please inform the secretary of any corrections to this list.

Persons who want to become a member of the ABA should send their details to the secretary, Darryl Macer (by E-mail: asianbioethics@yahoo.co.nz, fax or airmail). Those who say they are not in the position to pay the fees will not be barred from full membership of ABA.

Asian Bioethics Association Constitution

First printed in Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 8 (1998), 1-2. Next printed in Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 12 (2002), 159. Adopted constitution was printed in Eubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 12 (2002), 210-11.

Former Board Officers (2006-2008)

Former Board Officers (2004-2006)

President: Sang-yong Song (South Korea)
Vice President for China: Xiaomei Zhai
Vice President for India: Jayapaul Azariah
Vice President for Japan: Noritoshi Tanida
Vice President for Korea: Un-Jong Pak
Vice President for West Asia (West of India): Sahin Aksoy (Turkey)
Vice-President for South Asia (East of India, excluding other named regions): Leonardo de Castro (Philippines)
Vice President for Asian Ethnic and Religious Minorities (e.g. Jews, Kurds, other ethnic groups or religious minorities): Frank Leavitt (Israel)
Immediate past President, Qiu Renzong (China)
Secretary: Darryl Macer (New Zealand/Thailand/Japan)

Hyakudai Sakamoto (Japan) is an honorary Board member as Founding President.

Past Officers (2002-2004)

President: Renzong Qiu (China)
Vice President for China: Xiaomei Zhai
Vice President for India: Jayapaul Azariah
Vice President for Japan: Noritoshi Tanida
Vice President for Korea: Sang-yong Song
Vice President for West Asia (West of India): Sahin Aksoy (Turkey)
Vice-President for South Asia (East of India, excluding other named regions): Leonardo de Castro (Philippines)
Vice President for Asian Ethnic and Religious Minorities (e.g. Jews, Kurds, other ethnic groups or religious minorities): Frank Leavitt (Israel)
Secretary: Darryl Macer (Japan/New Zealand)

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