Tagged with Health

Saudi Arabia Dr Mahmoud Alyamani, Health & Well-Being Sector Head at NEOM, the sustainable region taking shape in northwest Saudi Arabia. He discusses NEOM’s innovative healthcare vision, emphasizing a proactive, data-driven approach using digital twins and AI. He also highlights the importance of global partnerships to co-create advanced health solutions and NEOM’s…

Saudi Arabia Established as one of the initiatives launched by the Ministry of Health within Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, the Saudi National Institute for Health (Saudi NIH) aims to strengthen the Kingdom’s biomedical research landscape, funding high impact research and enhancing alignment with regulatory bodies. CEO and former academic Prof Fars Alanazi…

Mexico FUNSALUD is a leading Mexican think tank focused on improving public health through research, advocacy, and promoting public-private partnerships. As Mexico prepares to welcome a new president, FUNSALUD’s Hector Valle casts his eye over the evolving healthcare landscape in terms of both progress made in addressing access gaps and how…

United Kingdom The newly elected UK government’s Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting has a full plate of challenges ahead. Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) is plagued with a chronic lack of funding, staffing crunches and backlogs, while the country’s life sciences sector is seemingly in decline. Streeting…

India Poised to overtake Japan and become the world’s fourth-largest economy by 2025 according to the latest International Monetary Fund estimates and now registering heady year-on-year growth rates exceeding eight percent, India’s overall business outlook appears increasingly rosy with industry reaping the rewards from rising per capita GDP, enhanced purchasing power,…

South Africa A leading voice in the global fight against HIV, Professor Linda-Gail Bekker works across both scientific research and activism. As CEO and founder of the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation, Prof Bekker has helped change the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa. Her organisation has brought the latest HIV…

Mexico Drawing on an industry track record of over 25 years, Fernando Fogarin has recently become the strategic project lead for emerging markets at women’s health specialist Organon. He shares his priorities and the particularities of the Mexican market, discussing the positive impact of the country’s upcoming biosimilars reform; Organon’s efforts…

Mexico Mexico’s president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum recently revealed some of her key cabinet choices, naming eminent physician and researcher David Kershenobich as the country’s new health secretary. When Kershenobich takes office in October he will be inheriting a healthcare system rife with medicine shortages, partially adopted systems and inadequate resources. However, rather…

Global 35 years after the specific mechanisms and structure of the human immunodeficiency virus were first identified, the world is still waiting for a vaccine against HIV. Several late-stage candidates have failed in this time, leading to most of the major pharma companies exiting HIV vaccine research. Some new early-stage approaches…

Saudi Arabia SEHA Virtual Hospital, the world’s largest such network, brings together 170 hospitals and around 600 primary healthcare centers in Saudi Arabia. As the organisation’s CEO Eng. Mona Sahman Al-Subaie explains, SEHA provides a wide range of virtual medical services from critical care to specialised clinics, aimed at increasing the accessibility…

Global Brendan Shaw paints a concerning picture of global health priorities post-pandemic, highlighting the need for renewed focus and investment in healthcare systems to prevent further backsliding.   “There isn’t a financing gap. There is just money that is not moving towards the right things. There’s plenty of money out there”…

Saudi Arabia As Managing Director for Healthcare at Accenture Middle East, Samar Nassar oversees the global consultancy’s healthcare practice in the region, focusing on end-to-end management of large clients in both public and private sectors. Nassar highlights some of the key healthcare trends and challenges in the region, including workforce shortages, mental…