Biography

Dr. Ross Anthony is Director for Global Health, Co-Director of RAND Health's Center for Domestic and International Health Security (CDIHS), and Director of RAND's Palestine Initiative. In these capacities, Dr. Anthony directs RAND's current global health initiatives worldwide. He also led separate large projects to develop a national healthcare strategy for Qatar and to analyze how to build a successful independent Palestinian state.

Dr. Anthony has over twenty years of experience and leadership in the health care field at all levels of government (local, county, state, national, and international). In 2003-2004 he was asked to serve on the US Presidential Commission on Improving Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans, and recently served as a member of the WHO Health Systems Knowledge Network of the World Health Organization's Commission on the Social Determinants of Health.

Before joining RAND, Dr. Anthony served as Vice-President and Director of the International Health Services Group at the International Planning and Analysis Corporation (IPAC), an international consulting firm; Director of the Office of Development Resources for United States Agency for International Development (USAID Europe) overseeing six divisions with responsibility for program design of 15 Eastern European countries, and health programs in the former Soviet Union; Associate Administrator for Program Development at the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA, now CMS) responsible for regulatory policy development and research for the Medicare and Medicaid program; was a partner of Health Policy Alternatives, developed and managed a small community health project located in remote rural Nepal; taught economics at the University of Oregon; and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal.