Dr. Shyam Bishen is a senior healthcare executive with over 25 years of global experience in healthcare public-private partnership, strategy development, M&A, and business development. He comes to the Forum from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle where he was a regional/deputy director for seven years and was responsible for partnering to harness advances in healthcare to save lives. Before moving to Gates Foundation, he spent more than 20 years in private sector, and most recently headed up emerging markets strategy & innovation at Merck (MSD) in New Jersey as vice president and general manager. Prior to joining the corporate sector, Dr. Bishen was in academia and worked as an Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He is qualified with a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.
Our 2024 report Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Human Health, in association with Oliver Wyman, explored how climate change will reshape global health over the next two decades.
This article was first published in February 2024 and most recently updated in November 2024.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan marked a transformative step in aligning global health priorities with climate action, according to the World Heal...
Datos del Centro de Control y Prevención de Enfermedades de África (Africa CDC) muestran que los casos de Mpox (viruela símica) continúan propagándose en el continente. Los casos han aume...
En un primer plano, las marcas en blanco y negro del Aedes albopictus son bastante atractivas, pero este “mosquito tigre” puede ser mortal y es uno de los dos insectos responsables del rá...
Data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) shows that Mpox cases continue to spread on the African continent. Cases have increased over 500% from last ye...
In close-up, the black and white markings of Aedes albopictus are quite striking, but the ‘tiger mosquito’ can be deadly and is one of two insects behind the rapid rise of dengue fever ac...
As COP29 approaches, this year in Baku, Azerbaijan, health is poised to play a significant role in climate discussions. In a recent webinar by the World Health Organization (WHO) and COP2...
El creciente problema de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos (AMR, por sus siglas en inglés) ha sido calificado de "pandemia silenciosa","tsunami en cámara lenta" y una de las "10 princi...
The growing problem of antimicrobial resistance, or AMR, has been called a “silent pandemic”, a “slow-motion tsunami”, and one of the “top 10 global health threats to humanity in the 21st...
World leaders have pledged a 10% reduction in deaths from drug-resistant infections by 2030, following a key United Nations (UN) General Assembly meeting on 26 September in New York, The ...
Este artículo se publicó por primera vez en marzo de 2023. Su última actualización data de agosto de 2024.
India has reported its first case of the new mpox strain that has prompted a global public health emergency alert from the World Health Organization (WHO), according to Reuters.
La salud se está convirtiendo en una parte cada vez más importante de la estrategia para empresas de todo el mundo. Este cambio está impulsado por el costo astronómico de la mala salud pa...
Health is becoming an increasingly important part of strategy for businesses all over the world. This shift is being driven by the astronomical cost of ill-health to peoples' lives, econo...
