C. Ross Anthony

C. Ross Anthony Senior Economist Co-Director for Global Health at the Center for Domestic and International Health Security EDUCATION PhD, Economics, University of Pennsylvania

FIELDS Health economics, health care finance, military health care, international health care, and economic development.

Dr. Anthony is the former director of the Center for Military Health Policy Research, which is a joint program between RAND Health and RAND's federally funded research and development centers. To date the Center has conducted research related to Gulf War Illnesses, vaccine policy, evaluations of demonstrations to test alternative ways of delivering benefits to Medicare eligible military retirees, clinical practice guideline implementation, Tricare for Life, and studies on cost and organization of military medicine.

Dr. Anthony has more than twenty years of experience and leadership in the health care field--including a unique combination of work at all levels of government (local, county, state, national, and international) and in all sectors of the economy (public, private, and volunteer). Before joining RAND, he was a Vice-President and Director of the International Health Services Group at the International Planning and Analysis Center, a consulting firm offering health care expertise and marketing support to U.S. and international governments, private companies, and organizations.

Dr. Anthony also served as Director of the Office of Development Resources for Europe at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). There he oversaw six divisions, including the Health Division. He had responsibility for program design and oversight in 15 Eastern European countries, and designed and managed implementation of health programs in the former Soviet Union.

From 1986-89, Dr. Anthony served as Associate Administrator for Program Development of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). He oversaw development of program policy, regulations, and health services research for the Medicare and Medicaid programs. As Associate Administrator for Program Development, he also had responsibility for implementing national Medicare and Medicaid legislation and overseeing HCFA's research and demonstration program.

Dr. Anthony also developed and managed the Dhorpatan Health Project, a small hospital and community health project located in remote rural Nepal. He was a Principal in Health Policy Alternatives, Inc., a private consulting firm that works with national and international health care organizations to develop policy alternatives and to implement them through the federal or state legislative and regulatory process.

Dr. Anthony received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He taught health economics at the University of Oregon, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, and currently serves on the U.S. Presidential Task Force on Improving Health Care for Our Nation's Veterans.