Prof. Ronen Arbel Awarded Prestigious Horizon Europe Research Grant

Congratulations to Prof. Ronen Arbel, Associate Professor in the Department of Technological Marketing and the M.A. Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Organizations at Sapir Academic College, who, together with a team of researchers from Clalit Health Services, has been awarded the prestigious Horizon Europe grant, the European Union’s flagship program for research and innovation.

Prof. Arbel’s research group, which focuses on health outcomes research within Clalit’s Community Division, is a partner in an international project aimed at predicting future pandemics. With a total budget of €8 million, the consortium brings together leading organizations and institutions, including the World Health Organization (WHO), the University of Oxford, and prominent research and industry partners from around the globe.

The project seeks to establish a global network for detecting emerging diseases, monitoring their development, and providing governments and health authorities with advanced decision-support tools to better prepare for and respond to future outbreaks.

“Today, governments have limited tools to help them decide how to act during a pandemic,” said Prof. Arbel. “The idea is to deploy a global network for identifying pandemics and tracking their evolution, and then provide tools that can show what will happen under different scenarios through a live dashboard based on extensive datasets from around the world.”