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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Hay escasez de medicamentos en todo el mundo, sobre todo de genéricos, incluidos los antibióticos. Por qué ocurre esto ahora y cómo podemos garantizar el suministro?
There are medicine shortages across the world – especially generics including antibiotics. Why is this happening now and how can we ensure supply?
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The pandemic resulted in a harmful backsliding on women’s health and without increased investment, we won’t be able to make up the losses and regain progress against the SDGs.
The World Economic Forum is helping to facilitate public-private partnerships and global cooperation to help make affordable, high-quality healthcare universally accessible.
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Gene therapy has the potential to address the root causes of many diseases but we need to act now to build capacity and improve access in poorer countries.
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