 In 2014, Daniels was awarded degree Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the University of Toronto for his accomplishments at Johns Hopkins as a champion of the role of the research in fostering social and scientific progress.In 2018, Ronald Daniels, served as the congressional chair of the Committee on The Next Generation Initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.Daniels’ writing is interdisciplinary, combining the fields of law, economics, development and public policy.