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.
Un diagnóstico de cáncer es algo que todo ser humano teme; sin embargo, la provisión de tratamiento y cuidados no está a la altura de las necesidades de los pacientes en todo el mundo.
A cancer diagnosis is something every human fears; yet provision of treatment and care is failing to meet the needs of patients around the world.
More than half of the world’s countries will be at a high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent action is taken, according to the World Health Organi...
The gender health gap affects everyone: our families, communities, workplaces, societies. Yet around the world, millions of women at all stages of life are unable to access the healthcare...
The global cancer burden is growing and is having a disproportionate impact on underserved populations, figures from the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer agency show.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported an "alarming" increase in measles cases in Europe in 2023, with numbers still rising, the BBC reports.
Improving healthcare access and enhancing health outcomes – these twin goals underpin all our health and healthcare work at the World Economic Forum.
For far too long, society has overlooked women’s health needs and failed them in doing so. Women are paying the ultimate price with an average of nine years spent in ill health across the...
Reducing the women’s health gap improves lives and can potentially unlock a $ 1 trillion GDP opportunity annually by 2040, according to a new analysis from the World Economic Forum in col...
Since at least the 1970s, artificial intelligence (AI) has been hailed as the solution to some of healthcare’s most intractable problems. So far, the reality has fallen short of the hype.
En el complejo mosaico de retos globales, pocos hilos conductores son tan críticos como el bienestar mental de nuestra mano de obra. Más allá de ser una obligación moral, la salud mental ...
在错综复杂的全球挑战中，员工心理健康是最重要的话题之一。维持员工心理健康不仅是道德义务，也是实现组织成功的战略基石，因为它会影响生产力、创新发展和经济繁荣。在欧洲，心理健康危机形势严峻。2023年的“欧洲晴雨表”调查显示，46%的受访者去年曾面临情绪或心理社会问题，但超过一半的人没有寻求专业帮助。这表明医疗基础设施存在不足，无法在人们最脆弱时提供支持。
In the complex mosaic of global challenges, few threads are as critical as the mental well-being of our workforce. Beyond being a moral obligation, employee mental health is a strategic c...
From aging populations and increased disease burdens to the continued fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, health and healthcare systems around the world continue to...
COP28 hosted the climate conference's first-ever Health Day on 3 December, with more than 40 million health professionals joining the World Health Organization's (WHO) call for health to ...
