Bioethics and Medical Law Society: Events Officer

Hi! I am a first-year LLB Laws student, and it would be my honour to serve as events officer for the Bioethics and Medical Law society. My experience as a law student coupled with my time as blog editor for LFA in the current year has allowed me to engage with topics involving the healthcare industry such as the legal concerns of vaccine patents, thus furthering my interest in this sector of law.  

Through my current job with a startup company, I have experience in coordinating with external organisations. I conducted an outreach effort to more than 50 organisations to propose collaborations on various projects, and successfully advanced the partnership scheme between our company and such organisations. Furthermore, as co-Secretary General of my school’s MUN conference, I organised a conference with more than 100 members in attendance, so the roles of an events officer are of familiarity to me. 

After my experience as events officer this academic year, I have learned a lot about how to organise talks and lectures. I would like to build on what I learned this year and make the society's events even more exciting next academic year! One thing we didn't have enough of this year due to lingering issues surrounding COVID-19, was in-person talks. I would like to have more of these in the coming year. I would also like to set up collaborations with other societies, so we can discuss bioethics in different contexts. I also intend to find more lecturers in the coming year to discuss the ethics surrounding AI and gene editing as these are quite hot topics at the moment.