Ran Balicer Email & Phone Number

Ran D. Balicer, a public health physician, executive and researcher, serves as Chief Innovation Officer & Deputy-DG at Clalit - Israel's largest healthcare organization, and as Founding Director of the Clalit Research Institute. In these roles, he is responsible for strategic planning and development of innovative organization-wide interventions for improving healthcare quality, reducing disparities, and introducing novel data and AI driven tools into practice to increase care effectiveness. Prof. Balicer has been affiliated as faculty with the Ben-Gurion University since 2004, involved in research and teaching in the School of Public Health, and serves today as full professor and track director at the faculty MPH program. He authored books, book chapters and over 250 peer-reviewed publications looking at various aspects of real world evidence generation, public health, quality improvement, and preventive medicine. In recent years, Prof. Balicer's research is focused on the study of extensive clinical databases and data science in care provision and policymaking, as well as in applying and assessing innovative models of care aimed at increasing the effectiveness of non-communicable diseases care. In parallel, he is involved in the study of emerging infectious diseases prevention and control, through AI and real-world big data.Alongside Prof. Zak Kohane, prof. Balicer serves as Co-Chair of the Berkowitz Living Lab, a collaboration between Harvard Medical School and Clalit Research Institute. Prof. Balicer serves as Chair of the Israeli Society for Quality in Healthcare, as an Advisor to Israeli Ministry of Health on infectious disease epidemiology, health policy and emergency preparedness. He serves as a Board Member for HIMSS, and had served on the Boards of the International Foundation for Integrated Care and of the European Federation of Medical Informatics.Prof. Balicer serves in senior advisory groups to the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe - including the Region’s Senators Group, and is involved in projects focusing on chronic diseases monitoring, prevention and control, and healthcare systems integration. In 2020-2023, Prof. Balicer served as Chair of Israel’s National Expert Advisory Team to the government on Covid-19 response. Prof. Balicer serves on a multiple leadership roles on the use of AI for humanity, including the UN Secretary-General Advisory Body on AI, the French Government international Committees on 3IA and IA-cluster, among others.