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.
Updated data on ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution reveal stalled progress and "critical inequalities" globally, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Ebola virus has once again triggered an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, renewing concerns over regional health security and the risk of wider intern...
Women spend more of their lives in poor health than men. Despite this inequity, we have the potential to add seven more days of healthier life per woman per year – a pursuit that would re...
An estimated 1.8 billion people globally will be affected by metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) by 2050, according to a new study published in The Lancet.
At the G7 One Health Summit from 5-7 April in Lyon, France, more than 20 international partners unveiled a global initiative to strengthen health security across human, animal and environ...
世界保健機関（WHO）と、その専門機関である国際がん研究機関（IARC）の新たな報告書によると、世界のがん症例の最大4割は予防可能であることが明らかになりました。
Up to four in ten cancer cases worldwide could be prevented, according to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and its International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
Poor health costs the global economy approximately 15% of GDP every year. Meanwhile, healthcare systems waste 20-30% on ineffective interventions. These are not abstract numbers; they tra...
女性の健康は、グローバルな福祉と経済成長にとって極めて重要ですが、依然として十分な資金が投入されていません。グローバル人口のほぼ半数を占める女性。一方、女性に特有の影響を与える、あるいは女性特有のアプローチを必要とする多くの疾患に対する、研究、イノベーション、民間投資からの注目は依然として不足しています。
Women’s health remains significantly underfunded relative to its importance for global wellbeing and economic growth. Despite representing nearly half the world’s population, many of the ...
La salud de la mujer sigue estando significativamente subfinanciada en relación con su importancia para el bienestar mundial y el crecimiento económico. A pesar de representar casi la mit...
Health is the world’s best investment. It drives productivity, strengthens economies, and anchors social stability. As the world faces demographic shifts, rising chronic disease and tight...
Cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other NCDs account for more than 70% of global deaths – yet many countries still operate with incomplete, outdated or unusable health data. A 2023 AS...
2025 was a transformative year for the World Economic Forum and its Global Alliance for Women’s Health. One key outcome was the Women’s Health Impact Tracking platform (WHIT), which was b...
十年艰难成果，一朝付诸东流。这严峻的现实正出自世界卫生组织《2025年世界卫生统计》报告。数据显示，2019至2021年间，全球人均预期寿命下降了1.8岁——相当于抹去了过去十年的健康进展，也揭示了新冠大流行暴露的卫生脆弱性。
