Ran D. Balicer, a public health physician and researcher, serves as Founding Director of the Clalit Research Institute and Director of Health Policy Planning at Clalit - Israel's largest healthcare organization. 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 in the faculty's MPH program. In recent years, Prof. Balicer's research is focused on the study of extensive clinical databases in care provision and policy making, as well as in applying and assessing innovative models of care aimed at increasing the effectiveness of non-communicable diseases care. 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 also serves as a Board Member of the International Foundation for Integrated Care and of the European Federation of Medical Informatics.