Ron Dagan (Israel)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases
Ron Dagan is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He founded the Pediatric Infectious Disease Unit at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer-Sheva and served as its director from 1987 to 2014. Prof. Dagan has served on the National Advisory Committee on Infectious Diseases and Immunization since 1991 and has been a member of the Nationwide Working Group on Corona Vaccines since 2020. He has earned international recognition for his research, focusing largely on the development on vaccine-preventable diseases.