The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State
An examination of options for strengthening infrastructure in a potential future independent Palestinian state.
C. Ross Anthony is director of RAND's Israeli-Palestinian Initiative, and an adjunct economist at RAND. He specializes in global health, financing, and military health. Anthony led RAND Health's Global Health Initiative (2001–2013) and its Military Health Policy Research program (1996–2002). He led four large projects on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict including A New Spatial Vision for Palestine; projects developing health care strategies for Qatar; health and nation-building; health reform in the Kurdish Region of northern Iraq; and causes of Gulf War Illnesses.
Anthony has over 30 years of health care experience at all levels of government. He served on the U.S. Presidential Commission on Improving Health Care Delivery for Our Nation's Veterans and was a member of the WHO Health Systems Knowledge Network of the Commission on the Social Determinants of Health; as vice president of Health Services at the International Planning and Analysis Corporation; director of Office of Development Resources for USAID Europe, overseeing six divisions responsible for program design of 15 Eastern European countries, and health programs in the former Soviet Union; and as associate administrator for Program Development at the Health Care Financing Administration (now CMS), responsible for regulatory policy development and research for Medicare and Medicaid. He was also a Health Policy Alternatives partner; taught economics at the University of Oregon; and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal. Anthony earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics and M.A. in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. in history from Williams College.
Education
Ph.D. in economics, University of Pennsylvania; M.A. in economics, University of Pennsylvania; M.A. in economic history, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in history, Williams College
Languages
Nepali spoken
Selected Work
- Anthony, C. Ross, Daniel Egel, Charles P. Ries, Craig A. Bond, Andrew Liepman, Jeffrey Martini, Steven Simon, Shira Efron, Bradley D. Stein, Lynsay Ayer, and Mary E. Vaiana, The Costs of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, RAND Corporation (RR-740-1-DCR), 2015
- Anthony, C. Ross, Melinda Moore, Lee H. Hilborne, and Andrew W. Mulcahy, Health Sector Reform in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq: Financing Reform, Primary Care, and Patient Safety, RAND Corporation (RR-490-1-KRG), 2014
- Seth Jones et al., Securing Health: Lessons from Nation-Building Missions, RAND Corporation (MG-321), 2006
- Doug Suisman et al., The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State, RAND Corporation (MG-327), 2006
- The RAND Palestinian State Study Team, Building a Successful Palestinian State, RAND Corporation (MG-146), 2005
- Egel, Daniel, C. Ross Anthony, Shira Efron, Rita T. Karam, Mary E. Vaiana, and Charles P. Ries, Alternatives in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, RAND Corporation (RR-A725-1), 2021
- Culbertson, Shelly, Kobi Ruthenberg, Robert Lane, Nitay Lehrer, Mary E. Vaiana, and C. Ross Anthony, From Camps to Communities: Post-Conflict Shelter in Gaza, RAND Corporation (RR-A3486-2), 2025
- Mary Murphy, C Ross Anthony, Stephen Bezruchka, Michael Payne, Far From the Road: A Community Health Project in the Himalayas, , 2025
Authored by C. Ross Anthony
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