The top global health stories from 2025
A decade of hard-won progress, erased. That is the sobering reality laid out in the World Health Organization's (WHO) World Health Statistics 2025 report. The data shows that global life ...
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.
A decade of hard-won progress, erased. That is the sobering reality laid out in the World Health Organization's (WHO) World Health Statistics 2025 report. The data shows that global life ...
The climate crisis requires urgent attention from governments, businesses and academics. Over 540,000 people die from extreme heat each year, and one in 12 hospitals worldwide is at risk ...
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Rising temperatures have pushed 12 of 20 key indicators tracking health threats related to climate change to record levels in the past year, according to the 2025 Lancet Countdown report.
At this year's Annual Meeting of the Global Future Councils in Dubai, the Centre for Health and Healthcare led conversations that challenged how we value and protect human health.
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance, the mechanism ...
Last week, the World Economic Forum's Centre for Health and Healthcare once again brought health to the global stage during the Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Meetings in New York...
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The Centre for Health and Healthcare is once again bringing health to the global stage during the Forum's upcoming Sustainable Development Impact Meetings in New York, from September 22 t...
世界保健機関(WHO)とユニセフのレポートによると、2015年以降の進展はあるものの、依然として世界人口の4分の1にあたる21億人が安全に管理された飲料水を利用できない状況にあります。
Despite gains since 2015, one in four – or 2.1 billion people globally – still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, according to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO)...
Heatwaves are becoming the new normal. June 2025 was the third-warmest June on record globally, with temperature extremes experienced across both hemispheres.
A once-in-a-decade United Nations summit opened on June 30 in the Spanish city of Seville, with world leaders and delegates from 193 countries meeting to address urgent gaps in developmen...
A new report from the UNICEF-led Global Coalition for Youth Mental Health reveals a striking paradox: Gen Z is highly engaged with global news and issues, motivated by a strong sense of r...






