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.
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India has reported its first case of the new mpox strain that has prompted a global public health emergency alert from the World Health Organization (WHO), according to Reuters.
La salud se está convirtiendo en una parte cada vez más importante de la estrategia para empresas de todo el mundo. Este cambio está impulsado por el costo astronómico de la mala salud pa...
Health is becoming an increasingly important part of strategy for businesses all over the world. This shift is being driven by the astronomical cost of ill-health to peoples' lives, econo...
如今，大多数国家面临的超重或肥胖问题比体重不足问题更加严重。据估计，全球超过10亿人患有肥胖症，其中1.59亿是儿童或青少年。
La mayoría de las personas ahora viven en países donde tener sobrepeso u obesidad es un problema mayor que tener bajo peso. Se estima que más de mil millones de personas en todo el mundo ...
