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Biography
Prof. Limor Aharonson-Daniel is Vice-Rector for International Academic Affairs at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the founding director of the PREPARED Center for Emergency Response Research. She is a Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Limor is an international expert on injury epidemiology and played a significant role in the academization of the field of emergency preparedness and response and in the development of innovative approaches and tools for the study of emergency situations. Among these are the Barel body region by nature of injury diagnosis matrix, Multiple Injury Profiles and the Conjoint Community Resiliency Assessment Measure (CCRAM). Limor was born in Israel, 1963, to Nurit and Ephraim Aharonson, a direct descendent of the Aharonson family of Zichron Yaakov.
Education
Limor has a B.Sc in Statistics from Tel-Aviv University and a Ph.D. in Community Medicine from The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Her Ph.D. dissertation focused on the application of operations research in ambulatory care services in Hong-Kong and was conducted under the joint supervision of Prof AJ Hedley, HKU and Prof RJ Paul, Brunell University, Uxbridge, UK.
Career
Limor joined BGU in 2008 after being the deputy director of The Israel National Center for Trauma and Emergency Medicine Research. In 2009 she founded the master's program in Emergency Medicine and the adjacent PREPARED research center at BGU. She headed the Department of Emergency Medicine between 2011-2016 when she was nominated as vice rector. Limor contributed to the field of coding and classification of injury. Several of her studies resulted in the development of innovative approaches and tools to facilitate practically oriented studies of disasters and emergency situations. Among these are the Barell Matrix Multiple Injury Profiles and the Conjoint Community Resiliency Assessment Measure. Other studies she led improved the provision of care during emergency situations to vulnerable populations, particularly deaf persons and chronically ill patients.
She has published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals and authored several book chapters both on Injury Research Methods and on Disaster Preparedness Assessment. Prof. Aharonson-Daniel served on the editorial board of Injury Prevention journal for eight years and now serves on the editorial board of Injury Epidemiology journal and as a reviewer for several other journals.
Prof. Aharonson-Daniel is a member of the CDCs' International Collaborative Effort (ICE) on injury statistics, core member of the Global Burden of Disease study 'Injuries Expert Group', the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research (SAVIR), the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) where she served on the board of directors and as co-chair of the psychosocial section (2015-2017). Prof. Aharonson-Daniel is a member of the American Public Health Association (APHA) section on Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS).