Norli Abdullah

By Dr. Azizi Abu Bakar, Dr. Norli Anida Abdullah Malaysia is entering a strengthening El Niño, and the public conversation is about heat, haze and water supply. Almost nobody is asking what a long dry spell does to the ground we have already filled with waste. More than 170 closed landfills sit beneath this weather, capped and quiet. Drought dries and cracks the soil caps.

By Dr Norli Anida Abdullah, Assoc. Prof. Dr Baharudin Ibrahim A few years ago, I joined the Ideation and Entrepreneurship Programme at Universiti Malaya with colleagues from different academic backgrounds – pharmacy, dentistry, medicine, chemistry, engineering and myself, a statistician. We were asked what seemed like a simple task: identify a specific and meaningful problem worth solving. Surprisingly, that turned out to be the hardest part.

By Dr Norli Anida Abdullah, Assoc. Prof. Dr Baharudin Ibrahim A few years ago, I joined the Ideation and Entrepreneurship Programme at Universiti Malaya with colleagues from different academic backgrounds – pharmacy, dentistry, medicine, chemistry, engineering and myself, a statistician. We were asked what seemed like a simple task: identify a specific and meaningful problem worth solving. Surprisingly, that turned out to be the hardest part.