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.
The number of people dying of strokes could increase by 50% by 2050 unless significant improvements are made in prevention and treatment, a new report suggests.
Healthcare costs for employed women in the United States are estimated to be $15 billion greater than for employed men, according to research by Deloitte. This financial burden adds to th...
Licensing at least one new vaccine in the next five years is one of a new set of challenging targets aimed at tackling tuberculosis (TB) agreed at a United Nations meeting.
El cambio climático está creando una amenaza sin precedentes para la salud humana. A medida que la temperatura media de la superficie terrestre siga aumentando, las catástrofes naturales ...
气候变化对人类健康造成了前所未有的威胁。随着地球表面平均温度的持续上升，自然灾害和极端天气事件将变得更加频繁和严重。空气和水污染对我们的环境造成越来越严重的破坏，气候敏感性病原体的加速繁殖加剧了传染病的传播。
気候変動は、人間の健康をかつてないほどに脅かしています。地球の地表面の平均温度が上昇するにつれ、自然災害や異常気象はより頻繁に起き、激しさも増しています。大気汚染や水質汚染は環境破壊を加速させ、気候変動に敏感な病原体の増加は感染症の蔓延も悪化させています。
A blood test has been shown to detect Parkinson's disease in a preliminary study, giving hope that doctors may be able to detect the condition at an earlier stage in the future.
Climate change is creating an unprecedented threat to human health. As earth’s average surface temperature continues to rise, natural catastrophes and extreme weather events will become m...
Research is underway to determine the risks posed by a new form of coronavirus that has been found around the world. The variant has been detected by several laboratories and appears to b...
The number of steps you need to walk each day to start seeing health benefits is lower than previously thought, a new study suggests.
UN health innovation agency Unitaid has warned that failing to implement contact tracing and prevention measures for tuberculosis could lead to close to a million deaths by 2035.
Un nuevo fármaco contra el Alzheimer, el donanemab, ha demostrado ralentizar en un 35% el deterioro cognitivo de los pacientes de un ensayo mundial.
A new Alzheimer's drug, donanemab, has been shown to slow cognitive decline in patients in a global trial by 35%.
A health alert has been issued in the US after a handful of locally transmitted cases of malaria were identified in the country. The cases in Texas and Florida are the first to have sprea...
From predicting which patients are most likely to develop heart disease to creating personalised cancer vaccines, artificial intelligence (AI) is adding new capabilities to the health sec...
