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.
It’s official. Heat is now firmly on the agenda and in the public consciousness. The second of June was the first Heat Action Day, raising awareness of the detrimental impacts of extreme ...
This article was first published in February 2024 and updated in July 2024.
The number of people with dengue, a viral infection that spreads from mosquitoes to people, has been rising for decades, with an upsurge in cases globally since the beginning of 2023.
Bird flu continues to make health headlines around the world.
Mental health among children and adolescents is a critical issue that deserves attention and action. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 1 in 7 (14%) of adolescents ...
Air pollution has been called the “greatest single environmental health risk” by a new report, which says deaths from cardiovascular conditions caused by air pollution have been rising fo...
Oral health is increasingly recognized as integral to people's overall health and their ability to live healthy and productive lives. Despite this, dental care is often not treated as an ...
All for health, health for all. That’s the theme of this year’s World Health Assembly’s annual meeting. It encapsulates the central problem facing all health systems – and, by extension, ...
“营养不良”最常让人联想到因饥饿而体重过轻的人，但这个词其实也适用于肥胖人群。
The toll of bacteria capable of outwitting the current armoury of treatments, including antibiotics, is accelerating. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is already the third leading cause of ...
Three of the globe’s biggest health organizations have joined forces to address the impacts of climate change, malnutrition and infectious diseases, and antimicrobial resistance.
Investigadores de alto nivel de las Naciones Unidas han calificado de "importante preocupación para la salud pública" la propagación mundial de la gripe aviar a los mamíferos, incluidos l...
Immunization is one of the most effective health interventions we can make.
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...
