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.
WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has declared that the increase of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a number of other African...
"No fue posible encontrar ese medicamento. Hemos llamado a farmacias y nos han dicho que no hay. Recorrimos la capital, no había ninguna farmacia que lo venda. En un día, no hice nada de ...
「薬が見つかりません。薬局に電話しても、ないと言われます。首都を回りましたが、売っている薬局はありません。一日中、朝から晩まで何もせず、パーキンソン病の薬を探し続けました」。
Alrededor de 733 millones de personas pasaron hambre el año pasado, según el último informe El Estado de la Seguridad Alimentaria y la Nutrición en el Mundo (SOFI, por su sigla en inglés)...
What would you guess is the most common noncommunicable disease worldwide? If you guessed cancer or cardiovascular disease, you’d be wrong – but you wouldn’t be alone.
“The drug cannot be found. We called pharmacies, they said there’s none. We went around the capital, there was no chemist that sells it. In a day, I did nothing from morning to evening, I...
Around 733 million people faced hunger last year, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report. This is the equivalent of 1 in 11 globally and 1...
Ya es oficial. El calor ya forma parte de la agenda y de la conciencia pública. El 2 de junio se celebró el primer Día de Acción contra el Calor, para concienciar sobre los efectos perjud...
A gene that works to slow the growth and spread of pancreatic cancer is “switched off” by the disease, according to a new study.
• 6月2日の第1回「ヒートアクション・デー」のようなイニシアチブにより、猛暑が健康と生活に及ぼす悪影響に対する認識が高まっています。
It’s official. Heat is now firmly on the agenda and in the public consciousness. The second of June was the first Heat Action Day, raising awareness of the detrimental impacts of extreme ...
This article was first published in February 2024 and updated in July 2024.
The number of people with dengue, a viral infection that spreads from mosquitoes to people, has been rising for decades, with an upsurge in cases globally since the beginning of 2023.
Bird flu continues to make health headlines around the world.
Mental health among children and adolescents is a critical issue that deserves attention and action. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 1 in 7 (14%) of adolescents ...
