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.
Senior United Nations scientists have called the ongoing global spread of bird flu infections to mammals, including humans, a “significant public health concern”.
By 2050, climate change will place immense strain on global healthcare systems, causing 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses. This was the warning from the Quantifyin...
A new report has called for chronic kidney disease to be made a global health priority.
Immediate action is needed to prevent a “multi-year upsurge in cholera cases worldwide”, according to the organization that manages the world’s stockpile of cholera vaccine.
La palabra desnutrición se asocia más a menudo con las personas que tienen un peso inferior al normal debido al hambre. Pero también se aplica a las personas obesas.
The word malnutrition is most often associated with people who are underweight through hunger. But it equally applies to people who are obese.
Microscopic plastics could lead to a greater risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a new study.
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.
In 2022, there were 941 cases of measles across 41 countries in Europe and parts of central Asia.
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.
