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.
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...
如今，大多数国家面临的超重或肥胖问题比体重不足问题更加严重。据估计，全球超过10亿人患有肥胖症，其中1.59亿是儿童或青少年。
La mayoría de las personas ahora viven en países donde tener sobrepeso u obesidad es un problema mayor que tener bajo peso. Se estima que más de mil millones de personas en todo el mundo ...
現在、ほとんどの人が住む国々において、低体重よりも過体重や肥満が大きな課題となっています。世界中で10億人以上の人々が肥満と推定されており、そのうち1億5,900万人は子どもや若者です。
While the impacts of climate change on the global economy and nature are well documented, some of the most dire consequences of the planet’s rising temperatures will be on human health an...
Most people now live in countries where being overweight or obese is a bigger problem than being underweight. More than one billion people worldwide are estimated to be living with obesit...
The new mpox strain spreading from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is mutating faster than expected, particularly in regions lacking the resources for proper tracking, scientists r...
This article was first published in March 2023. It was most recently updated in August 2024.
