Prof. Ran Balicer is a physician, scientist and executive, Chief Innovation Officer for Clalit, Israel's largest healthcare organization caring for over half of the country’s population.
He also serves as founding director of the Clalit Research Institute, the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center on Non-Communicable Diseases Research, Prevention and Control.
In these roles, he is responsible for strategic planning, development and at-scale implementation of novel artificial intelligence and data-driven interventions.
Dr. Balicer is full professor and track director of the MPH program at the Ben-Gurion University School of Public Health, and heads Israel’s first and only dual Public Health & Data Science Physician Residency Program. He also serves as co-chair of the Ivan and Francesca Berkowitz Family Living Collaboration Laboratory at Harvard Medical School & Clalit Research Institute. In these capacities, he mentors young scholars and authored over 250 scientific publications, books and book chapters.
Dr. Balicer has served as chair of the Israeli Society for Quality in Healthcare since 2013, and as member of national and international health policy committees. He also serves as an advisor to governments and to international public organizations including the WHO, where he is involved in projects focusing on utilizing data,data science and AI in achieving effective healthcare provision and care integration.
Since 2020, Dr. Balicer has served as chairman of Israel's National Experts Team on COVID-19 Response, which advises the Israeli Government and Prime Minister. He has led globally recognized groundbreaking real-world studies on COVID-19 risk prediction and stratification; vaccine effectiveness, safety and advanced mitigation strategies.
